Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany

by Frank Biess

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143145
• ISBN13: 9780691143149
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"