The International Migration of German Great War Veterans

Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942
2016. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50156-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 2737 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuhlman, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.