Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Ziemann, Benjamin

Cambridge University Press

08/2016

328

Mole

Inglês

9781107631830

15 a 20 dias

This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann reveals how individual recollections fed into the public narrative of the experience of war.
Introduction; 1. 'A short period of insight': symbolizing defeat as liberation, 1918-23; 2. Republican war memories: the Reichsbanner Black Red Gold; 3. The personal microcosm of Reichsbanner activism; 4. Public commemorations and republican politics; 5. In search of a national symbol, 1924-33; 6. Pacifist veterans and the politics of military history; 7. Mass media and the changing texture of war remembrance, 1928-33; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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