After the war, the living had to deal with a conflict that had killed over 10 million soldiers plus an unknown number of civilians. This chapter considers some ways in which they did so between the wars. How the living confronted the dead, the war and the future was shaped by the unfolding timescale of the interwar period and by the circumstances of the countries involved, as well as being infinitely refracted through personal experience. The chapter examines how the dead defined the living and how combat created specific communities of survivors. The claims of two groups in particular spoke for the dead, bereaved women and veterans, hinted at a deeper process whereby those most affected by the war, whether women or men, formed communities of survivors in order to find a place in post-war society and integrate wartime sacrifice into the world of the living.