Homecomings : returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Biess, Frank, 1966-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Germany > History > 1945-1955. Ex-prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons. Krijgsgevangenen. Tweede Wereldoorlog. Terugkeer. Duitsland. DDR. Ex-prisonniers de guerre > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons. Allemagne > Histoire > 1945-1955.
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Table of Contents:

Impending defeat: military losses, the Wehrmacht and ordinary Germans
Confronting defeat: returning POWs and the politics of victimization
Embodied defeat: medicine, psychiatry, and the trauma of the returned POW
Survivors of totalitarianism: returning POWs and the making of West German citizens
Antifascist conversions: returning POWs and the making of East German citizens
Parallel exclusions: the West German POW trials and the East German purges
Absent presence: missing POWs and MIAs
Divided reunion: the return of the last POWs
Histories of the aftermath.