Homecomings: returning POWs and the legacies of defeat in postwar Germany

Impending defeat: military losses, the Wehrmacht and ordinary Germans

Confronting defeat: returning POWs and the politics of victimization

Embodied defeat: medicine, psychiatry, and the trauma of the returned POW

Survivors of totalitarianism: returning POWs and the making of West German citizens

Antifascist conversions: returning POWs and the making of East German citizens

Parallel exclusions: the West German POW trials and the East German purges

Absent presence: missing POWs and MIAs

Divided reunion: the return of the last POWs

Histories of the aftermath.