Format:
1 online resource (528 pages)
ISBN:
9780191617270
Content:
An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the rise of Nazism, looking at the ways in which this shaped, not merely German society, state, and economy, but also the character of the German people.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Violence and generations through the German dictatorships -- I. Traditions and legacies of violence -- II. A sense of generation: age-related challenges and unresolved issues -- III. 'Mobilization' and individual motives -- IV. 'Individual' lives -- V. Dissonant lives through the German dictatorships -- 2. Violence abroad: Generations and the legacies of imperialism -- I. Hans Paasche and colonial violence -- II. 'Civilized society' -- III. The impact of the Great War -- IV. The trials of Hans Paasche -- 3. Uncomfortable compatriots: Societal violence and the crises of Weimar -- I. The partial rupture of 1918 -- II. Transitions -- III. The Free Corps as transmission belt of violence -- IV. Weimar crises and individual life stories -- 4. Divided generations: State violence and the formation of 'two worlds' in Nazi Germany -- I. 'Hidden violence'? The progressive nazification of German society -- II. The class of 1935 -- III. The mobilization of the war-youth generation and the first Hitler Youth generation -- IV. 'Ashamed to be German'? The radicalization of violence, 1938-9 -- V. 'Ordinary Nazis' and the social self in the late 1930s -- 5. The escalation of violence: War and genocide -- I. Mass mobilization -- II. Early atrocities -- III. The routinization of systemic violence -- IV. Ideological war and collective frameworks of interpretation -- V. From mass murder to the 'final solution' -- VI. Beyond two worlds -- VII. The mobilization of the young -- VIII. Boomerang violence -- 6. Who was who in the GDR-and why? The shifting formation of generations after 1945 -- 7. Transitions from Nazism to communism -- I. The uncertainties of the present: Survival and normlessness -- II. Discarding Nazism -- III. The shock of violence and the break with the past among the young -- 8. Mobilization for the future (again).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199287208
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199287208
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=800814
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