The lost German East is almost unknown to most contemporary Germans

Evidence

This left me wondering: Who were these people, what became of them, and why were they absent from my knowledge of history? I had never heard of Pomerania, Silesia, or East Prussia before, and amid my language studies in T ü bingen over the following summer, I was surprised to discover that these territories are all but unknown to most Germans as well. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 32

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did postwar German knowledge of the Eastern territories fade so completely? Could connect to the research thread on state-orchestrated memory erasure and manufactured enemies in reverse.