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.

• Introduction: Writing the History of ReturneesDepicting Returnees: Contested Mass-Media Representations in East and West GermanyNegotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation DebatesGiving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and ConversionInteracting with the Past: Memory Projects of ReturneesEpilogue: Transmitting Memories-Shaping Postwar PresentsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

• Introduction: Writing the History of ReturneesDepicting Returnees: Contested Mass-Media Representations in East and West GermanyNegotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation DebatesGiving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and ConversionInteracting with the Past: Memory Projects of ReturneesEpilogue: Transmitting Memories-Shaping Postwar PresentsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

• Introduction: Writing the History of ReturneesDepicting Returnees: Contested Mass-Media Representations in East and West GermanyNegotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation DebatesGiving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and ConversionInteracting with the Past: Memory Projects of ReturneesEpilogue: Transmitting Memories-Shaping Postwar PresentsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex