Addresses the mass expulsion of Germany's unwanted residents, including Socialists, Jesuits, Danes, colonial subjects, French nationalists, Poles, and 'Gypsies', between 1871 and 1914.
Fitzpatrick's well-researched, fluently written, and impressively argued study nuances our understanding of law, politics, and society in the Kaiserreich ... These findings are an important corrective against the position, still popular in the historiography, that there were significant continuities between imperial Germany's nationality policy and the radical biopolitics of the Third Reich.