
Homecomings
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Historian Frank Biess traces the origins of the postwar period to the last years of the war, when ordinary Germans began to face the prospect of impending defeat. He then demonstrates parallel East and West German efforts to overcome the German loss by transforming returning POWs into ideal post-totalitarian or antifascist citizens. By exploring returnees' troubled adjustment to the more private spheres of the workplace and the family, the book stresses the limitations of these East and West German attempts to move beyond the war.
Based on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Homecomings combines the political history of reconstruction with the social history of returnees and the cultural history of war memories and gender identities. It unearths important structural and functional similarities between German postwar societies, which remained infused with the aftereffects of unprecedented violence, loss, and mass death long after the war was over.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: From War to Postwar
- Chapter One: Impending Defeat: Military Losses, the Wehrmacht, and Ordinary Germans
- Chapter Two: Confronting Defeat: Returning POWs and the Politics of Victimization
- Chapter Three: Embodied Defeat: Medicine, Psychiatry, and the Trauma of the Returned POW
- Part Two: Making Citizens
- Chapter Four: Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and the Making of West German Citizens
- Chapter Five: Antifascist Conversions: Returning POWs and the Making of East German Citizens
- Chapter Six: Parallel Exclusions: The West German POW Trials and the East German Purges
- Part Three: Divergent Paths
- Chapter Seven: Absent Presence: Missing POWs and MIAs
- Chapter Eight: Divided Reunion: The Return of the Last POWs
- Conclusion: Histories of the Aftermath
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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