Isbn: 9780472118977 - War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany (social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) (10 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover, viii + 428 pages, NOT ex-library. Translated by Philip Schmitz. Gentle external wear only. Pages are clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War. -- Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I of her book explores the ways in which veterans' experiences of wartime violence reshaped everyday family life, involving family members in complex ways. Part II offers an extensive analysis of the psychiatric response to this new category of patient, and in particular the reluctance of psychiatrists to recognize the psychic afflictions of former POWs as constituting the grounds for long-term disability. Part III analyzes the cultural representations of veterans' psychic suffering, encompassing the daily press, popular films, novels, and theater. Originally published in German as Die Gesellschaft der Uberlebenden, The War in Their Minds examines hitherto unused source material - psychiatric medical files of soldiers - to make clear how difficult it was for the soldiers and their families to readjust to normal, everyday life. Goltermann allows these testimonies of violence, guilt, justification, and helplessness speak for themselves and sensitively explores how the pension claims of returning soldiers were to compete with the claims of the Holocaust victims to compensation. Svenja Goltermann is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich." -- Contents: Introduction; Part I. Remembering the War: Private Fragments of Memory, 1945-1949 1. Linguistic Realms of War 2. Troubled Homecoming 3. Social Rubble; Part II. The Production of Psychiatric Knowledge: Professional Transformations, 1945-1970 4. "Prevailing Doctrine" 5. Contentious Practices 6. The Moral Challenge, 1956-1970; Part III. Mental Suffering and Its Changing Acknowledgment in West German Media: Public Negotiations, 1945-1970 7. Repatriated Wehrmacht Veterans in the Public Eye 8. The Reappearance of the Persecuted and the Rules Governing What Could Be Said in Public Memory Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…

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Condition: New. 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. . . 2017. Hardcover. . . . .…

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Condition: New. 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. . . 2017. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…