Homecomings returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany / Frank Biess.
This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity. These former prisoners made up a unique segment of German soci...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. |
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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.