Returning Memories
Christiane Wienand
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Description for Returning Memories
Hardcover. Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification. 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 of the history of the German returnees, explored as a historyof ... Read more
Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification. 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 of the history of the German returnees, explored as a historyof ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139047
SKU
V9781571139047
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99-1
Reviews for Returning Memories
The book is worth reading for its analysis of the narratives [of prisoner-of-war returnees], which is on the whole quite successful. The service it provides is in its at least partial reconstruction . . . of the complex formation of memory.
FRANCA-RECENSIO
Wienand argues that returnees constitute an ongoing and recurring issue, and aims to demonstrate that individual ... Read more
FRANCA-RECENSIO
Wienand argues that returnees constitute an ongoing and recurring issue, and aims to demonstrate that individual ... Read more