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The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Svenja Goltermann
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Description for The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Hardcover. German War Vetrans and Their Experiences of Violence I the Second World War. Explores the perception of German soldiers after World War ii, both as perpetrators and victims of violence during the war, and addresses the history of postwar psychiatry and public memory. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Published in Germany in 2009, The War in Their Minds explores the perception of German soldiers after World War II, both as perpetrators and victims of violence during the war, and addresses the history of postwar psychiatry and public memory. Prize-winning historian Svenja Goltermann treats this demanding material with care. First exploring how former soldiers' memories of war shaped their daily lives, she analyses contemporary psychiatric interpretations of veterans' psychic afflictions and notions of post-war disability. In the final section, the author focuses on how psychiatric knowledge informed the public memory of war in the popular ... Read more
Published in Germany in 2009, The War in Their Minds explores the perception of German soldiers after World War II, both as perpetrators and victims of violence during the war, and addresses the history of postwar psychiatry and public memory. Prize-winning historian Svenja Goltermann treats this demanding material with care. First exploring how former soldiers' memories of war shaped their daily lives, she analyses contemporary psychiatric interpretations of veterans' psychic afflictions and notions of post-war disability. In the final section, the author focuses on how psychiatric knowledge informed the public memory of war in the popular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118977
SKU
V9780472118977
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About Svenja Goltermann
Svenja Goltermann is Professor of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Reviews for The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
A conceptually rigorous book that begins and ends with a moral quandary: how might we create ways of recognizing the impact of mass violence on those who acquiesced, supported, or fell victim to the war and the regime responsible for unleashing it without denying, belittling, or collapsing the realms of difference between subject positions and victims groups?
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