Introduction

Part I. Remembering the war : private fragments of memory, 1945-1949. Linguistic realms of war

Troubled homecoming

Social rubble

Part II. The production of psychiatric knowledge : professional transformations, 1945-1970. "Prevailing doctrine"

Contentious practices

The moral challenge, 1956-1970

Part III. Mental suffering and its changing acknowledgment in West German media : public negotiations, 1945-1970. Repatriated Wehrmacht veterans in the public eye

The reappearance of the persecuted and the rules governing what could be said in public memory culture

Conclusion.