Physical Description
xiii, 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Impending defeat : millitary 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.
ISBN
0691125023
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-357) and index.
Impending defeat : millitary 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.
