Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235320 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8950
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental local variation in the number of anti-fascist Germans staying in post-war Czechoslovakia and find a long-lasting footprint: Communist party support, party cell frequencies, far-left values, and social policies are stronger today where anti-fascist Germans stayed in larger numbers. Our findings also suggest that political identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities.
Subjects: 
forced migration
displacement
ethnic cleansing
stayers
minorities
identity
integration
Communist party
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
JEL: 
J15
F22
D72
D74
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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