Robert G. Moeller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books include Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (California, 1993).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Listening to War Stories 2. Accounting for the Past 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the "Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe" 4. Prisoners of Public Memory: "Homecoming 1955" 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino": Expellees and POWs at the Movies Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Robert G. Moeller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books include Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (California, 1993).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Listening to War Stories 2. Accounting for the Past 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the "Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe" 4. Prisoners of Public Memory: "Homecoming 1955" 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino": Expellees and POWs at the Movies Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Robert G. Moeller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books include Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (California, 1993).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Listening to War Stories 2. Accounting for the Past 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the "Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe" 4. Prisoners of Public Memory: "Homecoming 1955" 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino": Expellees and POWs at the Movies Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index