What did former National Socialists think about the Volksgemeinschaft national community in the Third Reich? This pioneering study is the first to examine self-perceptions, strategies of justification, and constructions of community in the internment camps of the British and US occupation zones. It thus allows for a new view of German postwar society and the limits of allied reeducation policy.

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Kerstin Schulte, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, Germany.