Once Poles visibly thrived, an editor embraced the Polish city on its own terms

Evidence

Such was the last phase in Hoffmann-Rehmie’s process of dealing with loss. Inspired by the Polish life illustrated through travel accounts, she lost interest in bemoaning the Heimat transformed as a Polish wasteland and was no longer content to simply care for the “museum” of the German L ü ben cherished in memory. In 1967, she featured a photograph of the modern block-hotel building next to the train station “so that the city should have an inviting affect.” 112 This was Polish Lubin: a modern and lively little city built on the traces of a Heimat village still dear to expellees in memory. It was a place to be met on its own terms. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 982

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• XREF: connects to: Both German expellees and Polish settlers manufactured usable historical pasts to justify claims — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 196