Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture

ISBN-13: 9781107631830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 328 str.

Benjamin Ziemann

Opis

An innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany and how war experiences and memories were transformed along political lines.

Recenzje

'That the legacy of the First World War was a definitive battleground in Weimar Germany is no surprise, but Benjamin Ziemann's study of republican war veterans significantly recasts the terms of this battle. … Contested Commemorations thus offers further compelling evidence that the Weimar Republic was scarcely a republic without republicans … Ziemann's analysis moves skillfully from the memoirs and articles of individual veterans … to the organizations of republican veterans, their journals, and commemorative activities … [His] elucidation of their campaigns to expose and defy the myths surrounding Germany's war and defeat reveals a much more robust republican movement than is often presumed, one that did not readily surrender in a struggle that ultimately involved the legitimacy of the republican state.' Kathleen Canning, The Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

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.