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020 _a9781789205572
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020 _a9781789205589
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781789205589
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9781789205589
035 _a(DE-B1597)637543
035 _a(OCoLC)1147832695
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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072 7 _aHIS014000
_2bisacsh
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEchternkamp, Jörg
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPostwar Soldiers :
_bHistorical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955 /
_cJörg Echternkamp.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (570 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aMaking Sense of History ;
_v39
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction. The Problem: Paths Out of the War --
_tPart I FORMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PROSPECTS FOR EXPERIENCE BEFORE 1945 --
_tChapter 1. Heroic Images of War in the Age of Wars --
_tChapter 2. Shared Prospects for Experience in Total War --
_tChapter 3. The End of the War on the Horizon of Expectation, 1944–1945 --
_tPart II. A Criminal War? --
_tChapter 4. The Postwar Period as a Backdrop for Experience --
_tChapter 5. Demilitarization as an Allied Political Program --
_tChapter 6. Representation as a Legal Issue: The Military Leadership on Trial, 1945–1946 --
_tChapter 7. Conflicting Ideas: The Wehrmacht between Elucidation and Myth --
_tChapter 8. Provisional Assessment --
_tPart III. Veterans—An Experiential Community of “Victims”? --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 9. Self-Organization among Former Soldiers --
_tChapter 10. Internal and External Perceptions of Veterans: Victims and Achievers --
_tChapter 11. The Presence of the Absent: The Symbolic Representation and the Political Instrumentalization of Prisoners of War --
_tChapter 12. Experience versus Expectation: Consumption Critique and War Captivity --
_tChapter 13. Remembering the Fallen: Historical Signification between Commemorative Ceremony and Grave Care --
_tPart IV. Competing Interpretations and Conferring Meaning: War Stories of “Others” --
_tChapter 14. The Military Resistance: Fostering Tradition as a Political Act and Biographical Challenge --
_tChapter 15. Defectors, Deserters, War Criminals: Mirroring Self-Images --
_tChapter 16. The Führer Abroad: Defense by Demarcation --
_tChapter 17. Traitors, Spies, and Other “Loners”: The War’s Trivialization in the Media --
_tChapter 18. Provisional Assessment --
_tPart V. Historically Armed: Images of War and Soldiers in Military Leadership Philosophy and Political Public Relations Work --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 19. Military Self-Understanding between the “Old” and “New” Wehrmacht --
_tChapter 20. The Adenauer Government’s Eff orts at Integration in the Pre-political Realm --
_tChapter 21. Moral Rearmament: The Party Soldiers of the Free Democratic Party --
_tChapter 22. The Political Functionality of “Wartime Experience” in the Cold War --
_tChapter 23. Remilitarization as a Field of Tension in Collective Representations --
_tChapter 24. Provisional Assessment --
_tConclusion. A Prospective View and Summary --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aContemporary historians have transformed our understanding of the German military in World War II, debunking the “clean Wehrmacht” myth that held most soldiers innocent of wartime atrocities. Considerably less attention has been paid to those soldiers at the end of hostilities. In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier. As Echternkamp shows, public controversies around these topics helped to drive the social processes that legitimized the democratic postwar order.
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 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.
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653 _acaptivity.
653 _aclean wehrmacht myth.
653 _adefectors.
653 _ademilitarization.
653 _adeserters.
653 _aenemy combatants.
653 _aengaging.
653 _aeuropean history.
653 _afighting.
653 _agerman military.
653 _agovernment and governing.
653 _ahistorical.
653 _ahostilities.
653 _amen at war.
653 _amilitary veterans.
653 _amodern german history.
653 _aoccupation period.
653 _apolitical.
653 _apolitics.
653 _apostwar germany.
653 _aprisoners of war.
653 _apublic rehabilitation.
653 _aremembering the fallen.
653 _aretrospective.
653 _asocial science.
653 _asocial studies.
653 _asoldiers.
653 _atotal war.
653 _awar and battles.
653 _awar criminals.
653 _awarfare.
653 _awartime atrocities.
653 _awest germany.
653 _aworld war 2.
653 _aww 2.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205589?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789205589
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