Returning Memories: Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany
In: German History in Context
In: German History in Context Ser
Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Writing the History of Returnees -- 1: Depicting Returnees: Contested Media Representations in East and West Germany -- Memory and Media Representations -- Returnees in German Mass Media-An Overview -- Returnees as Perpetrators -- Returnees as Victims -- Returnees as Heroes -- Untitled -- 2: Negotiating Victim Status: The Presence of the Past in Compensation Debates -- Memory and Politics -- Negotiating Victim Status in the FRG: The Kriegsgefangenen entschädigungsgesetz -- Negotiating Victim Status after 1990: The Diversification of Memory Debates in Reunited Germany -- Conclusion -- 3: Giving Meaning to the Past: Narratives of Transformation and Conversion -- Memory and Narratives of the Past -- East German Narratives: Remembered Change and Changes of Remembrance -- Narratives of Transformation and Conversion in West Germany -- Common Narratives and Recurring Topoi -- Untitled -- 4: Interacting with the Past: Memory Projects of Returnees -- Memory and Agency -- Establishing Sites of Memory -- Building Communities of Remembrance -- Conducting Autobiographical Projects -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Transmitting Memories-Shaping Postwar Presents -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.