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

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

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 cit...

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Main Authors:Biess, Frank (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2006
Subjects:
Ex-prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons
Kriegsgefangenschaft
Rückkehr
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Kriegsende
Nachkriegsdeutschland
Nachkriegszeit
Deutschland
Sowjetunion
Deutscher Kriegsgefangener
Heimkehrer
Geschichte 1945-1955
Germany > History > 1945-1955
Hochschulschrift
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Summary: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
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. 307-357
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Physical Description:XIII, 367 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780691143149
9780691125022
0691125023

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