The International Migration of German Great War Veterans
Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942
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2016
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2016 ed.
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-50156-1 (ISBN)
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-50156-1 (ISBN)
German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s mostvolatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, aftergreat expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose toflee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in thenation against which they had fought: the United States.
This book uses
story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the
First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s most
volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after
great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose to
flee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in the
nation against which they had fought: the United States.
This book uses
story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the
First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s most
volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after
great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose to
flee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in the
nation against which they had fought: the United States.
Erika Kuhlman is Professor of history at Idaho State University, USA. She is the author of books about the Great War, including the peace movement, nations’ attempts to reconcile with each other after the war, and war widows in Germany and the United States.
Chapter 1: Introduction. .- Chapter 2: The Weapons they carried: Brutality and
Veterans’ Memories of the First World War.- Chapter 3: Desertion: Emigrants’ Wartime Mobility,
their Transnational War Experience, and the Myths of War..- Chapter 4: Emigration, National Loyalty and
Identity, and Anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany..- Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.04.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 116 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-50156-1 / 1137501561 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-50156-1 / 9781137501561 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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