The International Migration of German Great War Veterans

The International Migration of German Great War Veterans
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Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942
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Artikel-Nr:
9781137501561
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.05.2016
Seiten:
116
Autor:
Erika Kuhlman
Gewicht:
303 g
Format:
218x151x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

ErikaKuhlman is Professor of history at Idaho State University, USA. She is theauthor of books about the Great War, including the peace movement, nations' attemptsto reconcile with each other after the war, and war widows in Germany and theUnited States.

This book usesstory-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after theFirst World War. 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. 

Cross-pollinates two fields of study not currently linked: the historyof immigration after the war (1919-1929) and the history of German World Warveterans

.- Chapter 1: Introduction.

.- Chapter 2: The Weapons they carried: Brutality andVeterans' 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 andIdentity, and Anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

.- Epilogue. 

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