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