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Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people's experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium,...

Wie pragte der Zweite Weltkrieg das Verhaltnis der Westdeutschen zum Militar in der formativen Phase der Bundesrepublik? Jorg Echternkamp nutzt das heuristische Instrument der -kollektiven Reprasentationen- (Chartier), um drei Themenkomplexe zu analysieren: die Deutungen des Krieges in seiner Endphase und in der Besatzungszeit, die Selbstbilder soldatischer Erfahrungsgemeinschaften sowie die Neuerfindung der bundesdeutschen Streitkrafte. Indem sie die Zeit vor 1945 integriert, kommt er zu einem innovativen Ergebnis: Die offentlichen Kontroversen um Weltkrieg, Wehrmacht und Wertorientierung...

Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign...