TY - BOOK ID - 100260994 TI - Returning memories : former prisoners of war in divided and reunited Germany PY - 2015 SN - 9781571139047 1571139044 1782045309 9781782045304 PB - Rochester, New York : Camden House, DB - UniCat KW - Ex-prisoners of war KW - Collective memory KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Ex-prisonniers de guerre KW - Mémoire collective KW - 2ème guerre mondiale KW - History KW - Prisoners and prisons. KW - Histoire KW - Prisonniers et prisons KW - Germany KW - Allemagne KW - Former prisoners of war KW - Returned prisoners of war KW - Returnees KW - Prisoners of war KW - Divided Germany. KW - Former Prisoners of War. KW - German History. KW - Memory. KW - POWs. KW - Postwar Germany. KW - Reunited Germany. KW - World War II. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100260994 AB - 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. ER -