Social and Psychological Adaptation of Repatriates in the Postwar Germany
N.M Markdorf
Keywords: adaptation, post-traumatic stress syndrome, prisoners of war, interned, Germany, Siberia
Pages: 78-82
Abstract
The paper considers the problem of social and psychological adaptation of prisoners of war who returned from the USSR and were interned in the postwar Germany. The author concludes that adaptation was painful due to the post-traumatic stress syndrome and diseases they had in camps , so it complicated their life in the postwar period. This article is written on memoirs published in Germany as well as on unpublished manuscripts sent to the author by the former German prisoners of war. Moreover, the author also used some works by contemporary Russian scholars.
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