Homecomings : returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany / Frank Biess.
Homecomings : returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany / Frank Biess.
Homecomings : returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany / Frank Biess.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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N940.5472/14
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Impending defeat : military losses, the Wehrmacht, and ordinary Germans -- Ch. 2. Confronting defeat : returning POWs and the politics of victimization -- Ch. 3. Embodied defeat : medicine, psychiatry, and the trauma of the returned POW -- Ch. 4. Survivors of totalitarianism : returning POWs...
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2006.
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"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 society. They were both soldiers in the war of racial...
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Homecomings : returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany / Frank Biess.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2006.
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N940.5472/14
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74VKvJJPLV0X
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ISBN
9780691125022 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691125023 (cloth : alk. paper)
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940.5472092243
MMS ID
991021495969702626
