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World War Two Frontlines, 1945. The solid red line represents the frontline as of May 7th 1945. The area between in between the frontlines and the German border in south and east Saxony is classified as unoccupied. URL: https://www.westpoint.edu/history/SiteAssets/SitePages/World

World War Two Frontlines, 1945. The solid red line represents the frontline as of May 7th 1945. The area between in between the frontlines and the German border in south and east Saxony is classified as unoccupied. URL: https://www.westpoint.edu/history/SiteAssets/SitePages/World

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Figure 1: AfD vote shares by constituency, federal elections 2017. The...
Figure 2: World War Two Frontlines, 1945. The solid red line represents...
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How Stalin and Roosevelt influenced the Federal Elections in 2017 East Germany
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Exploiting differences in occupation status in East Germany in the last days of World War II and shortly thereafter, we find that regions which-due to their occupation status-experienced a drastic supply problem caused by the influx of great numbers of refugees fleeing from the Red Army in 1945 had a disproportionate increase in AfD votes from 2013...
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... number of refugees located in Saxony at this time is estimated to be 1.4 million 2 . Figure 2 shows the frontlines in the last days of the war. In April 1945, American troops advanced to a line that was determined by the rivers Elbe and ...

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... This relation depends on, among other things, the integration of the refugees (Böhm et al. 2018;Konitzer and Grujić 2009;Steinmayr 2016), which can be facilitated by refugees' own skills, a favorable economic situation in the host regions or cultural similarities (Braun and Dwenger 2018;Cheung and Phillimore 2014;Gericke et al. 2018). At the same time, the way the governments handle the influx of refugees echoes in right-wing party preferences (Hälbig and Lorenz 2019;Steinmayr 2016). That being said, right-wing party preferences and anti-migrant attitudes are not always fueled by the (actual) migration. ...
East Prussia 2.0: Persistent Regions, Rising Nations
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In this paper, we examine the economic and political effects of the breakup of East Prussia into what is today Poland, Russia and Lithuania. We explore the dissolution of imperial regions into the boundaries of modern states, adding new insights to the research on the imperial legacies. We expect that German imperial legacies in the form of advanced economic institutions, and specifically East Prussian legacies of nationalistic and conservative political preferences, persist in the territories of former East Prussia in Poland, Russia and Lithuania compared to neighboring regions in their respective countries. We find no pattern of persistence in former East Prussian territories of contemporary Poland, whereas East Prussian persistence appears to be robust in Lithuania. We find strong evidence for the comparative persistence of political preferences in the Kaliningrad region, whereas we observe no economic spillovers. Drawing evidence from West German electoral data in the aftermath of World War II, we find that the presence of East Prussian refugees is conducive to conservative and nationalist support in the FRG. Hence, the East Prussian legacy relates primarily to the persistence of political preferences and migrating agents. FUB Discussion Paper Economics 2020/8
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