Returning memories : former prisoners of war in divided and reunited Germany

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Label

Returning memories : former prisoners of war in divided and reunited Germany

Title remainder

former prisoners of war in divided and reunited Germany

Statement of responsibility

Christiane Wienand

Creator

• Wienand, Christiane

Author

• Wienand, Christiane

Subject

• Germany -- History -- 1945-1990
• Germany -- History -- 1990-
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
• Collective memory -- Germany
• Ex-prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Millions of former German soldiers (known as Heimkehrer, literally "homecomers," or returnees) returned from captivity as prisoners of war at the end of the Second World War, an experience that had profound effects on German society and touched almost every German family. Based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis ofthe history of the German returnees, explored as a history of memory, both during Germany's division and after unification. At its core lies the question of how the experiences of war captivity were transformed into individual and collective memories. The book argues that memory of the experience of captivity and return is complex and multilayered and has been shaped by postwar political and social frameworks. Christiane Wienand is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research project "Reverberations of War: Communities of Experience and Identification in Germany and Europe since 1945." She holds a PhD in History from University College London

Member of

• German history in context

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

362.86

Index

index present

LC call number

DD257.2

LC item number

.W534 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

German history in context