The Assimilation of German Expellees into the West German Polity and Society Since 1945 formatIsbn:Softcover 9789024716500 the local geometric structure of 9783642424038 the local geometric structure of a compact group may be extremely complicated which were long treated as two separate fields The expulsions of German nationals from former Reich territories east of the Oder Neisse Rivers and of German minority communities from various Eastern European nations following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945 constitute one of the least appreciated consequences of the Second World War The principal reason for this seems to lie in the belief that the process has been success fully completed at these lower levels and may be considered a 1 The classic treatment of the first decade and a half of the assimilation process from the national level is Eugen Lemberg and Friedrich Edding