Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Writing the History of Returnees
- 1 Depicting Returnees: Contested Media Representations in East and West Germany
- 2 Negotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation Debates
- 3 Giving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and Conversion
- 4 Interacting with the Past: Memory Projects of Returnees
- Epilogue: Transmitting Memories—Shaping Postwar Presents
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Writing the History of Returnees
- 1 Depicting Returnees: Contested Media Representations in East and West Germany
- 2 Negotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation Debates
- 3 Giving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and Conversion
- 4 Interacting with the Past: Memory Projects of Returnees
- Epilogue: Transmitting Memories—Shaping Postwar Presents
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Returning MemoriesFormer Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany, pp. 309 - 338Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015