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019 _a(OCoLC)1054874044
020 _a9780691196480
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020 _a9781400889334
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024 7 _a10.23943/9781400889334
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400889334
035 _a(DE-B1597)501065
035 _a(OCoLC)1049690259
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050 4 _aJN3971.A91
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072 7 _aHIS014000
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082 0 4 _a306.20943
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJarausch, Konrad H.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBroken Lives :
_bHow Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century /
_cKonrad H. Jarausch.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (464 p.) :
_b30 b/w illus.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tCast of Characters --
_tIntroduction: Narratives of German Experiences --
_tPart I: Prewar Childhood --
_t1. Imperial Ancestors --
_t2. Weimar Children --
_t3. Nazi Adolescents --
_tPart II. Wartime Youth --
_t4. Male Violence --
_t5. Female Struggles --
_t6. Victims' Suffering --
_tPart III. Postwar Adulthood --
_t7. Defeat as New Beginning --
_t8. Democratic Maturity --
_t9. Communist Disappointment --
_tConclusion: Memories of Fractured Lives --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tList of Sources --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of people who not only lived through the Third Reich, World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Written decades after the events, these testimonies, many of them unpublished, look back on the mistakes of young people caught up in the Nazi movement. In many, early enthusiasm turns to deep disillusionment as the price of complicity with a brutal dictatorship--fighting at the front, aerial bombardment at home, murder in the concentration camps-becomes clear.Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators and victims, Broken Lives reveals the intimate human details of historical events and offers new insights about persistent questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally distance themselves from this racist dictatorship and come to embrace human rights? Jarausch argues that this generation's focus on its own suffering, often maligned by historians, ultimately led to a more critical understanding of national identity-one that helped transform Germany from a military aggressor into a pillar of European democracy.The result is a powerful account of the everyday experiences and troubling memories of average Germans who journeyed into, through, and out of the abyss of a dark century.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
650 0 _aGermany-History-20th century.
650 0 _aGermany-Social conditions-20th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zGermany.
650 0 _aPolitical culture-Germany.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889334?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889334
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