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While I find this ongoing story really intriguing, it pisses me off a bit that the actual Nazis plagiarised the plot of my novel!

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"When I was a teenager we knew something had gone on here. But there was no one to ask because all the (German) residents were shipped out of the area and replaced by Poles after the Potsdam Agreement."

Just have a think about that: displacement leading to loss of historical continuity. How would people feel ending up in some city possibly hundreds of miles from where they grew up? Could be a nice sub-plot...

That is a pretty interesting idea for a sub-plot, and can be worked in more realistically than the amnesia/split-personality kind of plot that is more common (Memento, Tyler Durden). Sort of an exploration or investigation of a character's cultural/community genealogy.

It's an interesting idea! But I was being literal, my novel actually exists (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI) and one of the major plot points is very similar to this real one. So maybe for the sequel :)

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