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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 annihilation on the Eastern front and then suffered extensive hardship and deprivation themselves as prisoners of war. The book examines the lingering consequences of the soldiers' return and explores returnees' own responses to a radically changed and divided homeland. 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.

Germany --- History --- American Psychiatric Association. --- Americanization. --- Baumkötter, Heinz. --- Bautzen internment camp. --- Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich. --- Buchenwald. --- Caritas Kriegsgefangenhilfe. --- Christian churches. --- Cold War. --- Dachau. --- Fischer, August. --- Fischerhof clinic. --- Free German Youth (FDJ). --- Fühmann, Franz. --- German Communist Party (KPD). --- Goebbels, Joseph. --- Grüber, Propst. --- Heimkehrer conferences. --- Heuss, Theodor. --- Holocaust survivors. --- Kienlesberg transition camp. --- Korean War. --- Königswinter. --- Lewke, Karl. --- Merridale, Catherine. --- Moeller, Robert. --- Nazi Party membership. --- Nazi regime. --- Operation Barbarossa. --- POWs, Jewish. --- Panzinger, Friedrich. --- antifascist conversion. --- bourgeois reconstruction. --- captivity narratives. --- citizenship. --- collective innocence. --- commemorative culture. --- denazification. --- divorce rates. --- dystrophy. --- employment issues of returnees. --- eugenics. --- euthanasia program, Nazi. --- expellee organizations. --- family reunions. --- gender relations. --- malnutrition. --- memory studies. --- pension neurosis. --- politics of memory. --- psychic trauma.

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Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. Emotion remained on the scene of scientific and popular study but largely at the fringes as a behavioral reflex, or as a concern of the private sphere. So why, by the 1960s, had the study of emotions returned to the forefront of academic investigation? In Science and Emotions after 1945, Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross chronicle the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate - but instead consolidated - the emotional turn by clearing the ground for multidisciplinary work on the emotions. Science and Emotions after 1945 tells the story of this shift by looking closely at scientific disciplines in which the study of emotions has featured prominently, including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, and the social sciences, viewed in each case from a humanities perspective.

Emotions --- Affective neuroscience --- Psychology --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Neurobiology of emotion --- Neuroscience of emotions --- Physiology of emotion --- Neuropsychology --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Affect (Psychology) --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Psychological aspects. --- History --- Psychological aspects --- science, emotions, affect theory, nazi, history, irrationalism, rationalism, 1960s, neuroscience, holocaust, trauma, suffering, pain, bullying, intimidation, feminism, sociology, colonialism, mirror neuron, humanism, empathy, culture, west germany, excitement, nuclear war, anorexia, eating disorders, hunger strike, protest, revolution, social change, activism, medical ethics, psychology.

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Reconstruction (1939-1951) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Collective memory --- Memory --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Group identity --- Citizenship --- Military art and science --- Influence. --- History --- Social aspects --- History --- Motion pictures and the war. --- History --- History --- History --- Europe --- History

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"Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating case studies of German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific's overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits"--

Au�enbeziehungen. --- Germans --- Germans. --- International relations. --- Kolonialismus. --- History --- Deutschland. --- Germany --- Germany. --- Pacific Area --- Pacific Area. --- Pazifischer Raum. --- Relations --- Relations

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