War Stories
Subtitle: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 20, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520223264
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; War crimes; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; History - Military / War; Germans; Population transfers; History: World; Germany; West Germany; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military - World War II; History / General; Forced repatriation; Europe - Germany; Germany (West); History; Political refugees; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: In 1995, a half-century after the end of the Second World War, battles over the meaning of that event still raged.