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Auteur(s) : Kühne, Thomas (1958-....)
Titre(s) : The rise and fall of comradeship [Texte imprimé] : Hitler's soldiers, male bonding and mass violence in the twentieth century / Thomas Kühne, ...
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : vii, 304 pages ; 23 cm
Comprend : Introduction: A concept from a different world ; Part I. The myth of comradeship,
1914-1939. Healing ; Coalescence ; Steeling ; Part II. The practice of comradeship,
1939-1945. Assimilation ; Megalomania ; Nemesis ; Part III. The decline of comradeship,
1945-1995. Privatisation ; Integration ; Demonization ; Conclusion: Protean masculinity
and Germany's twentieth century.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions,
emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during
the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne
reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male
bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit of war and genocide.
Comradeship fuelled the soldiers' fighting morale. It also propelled these soldiers
forward into war crimes and acts of mass murders. Yet, by practicing comradeship,
the soldiers could maintain the myth that they were morally sacrosanct. Post-1945,
the notion of kameradschaft as the epitome of humane and egalitarian solidarity allowed
Hitler's soldiers to join the euphoria for peace and democracy in the Federal Republic,
finally shaping popular memories of the war through the end of the twentieth century
Sujet(s) : Amitié masculine -- Allemagne -- 1900-1945
Soldats -- Allemagne -- Attitude
Allemagne (1871-1945). Wehrmacht -- Vie militaire -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107658288 (pbk.). - ISBN 1107658284 (pbk.). - ISBN 9781107046368 (hbk). -
ISBN 110704636X (hbk)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45219901q
Notice n° :
FRBNF45219901
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