The Devil's Captain

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-006-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 228 g

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a military officer during the occupation of Paris, where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and with visiting German celebrities like Martin Heidegger, was at the center of disputes concerning his career. Spending more than three years in the French capital, he regularly recorded in a journal revealing impressions of Parisian life and also managed to establish various meaningful social contacts, with the intriguing Sophie Ravoux for one. By focusing on this episode, the most important of Jünger’s adult life, the author brings to bear a wide reading of journals and correspondence to reveal Jünger’s professional and personal experience in wartime and thereafter. This new perspective on the war years adds significantly to our understanding of France's darkest hour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Allan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Loner

Chapter 2. The Road to Paris

Photograph Section I

Chapter 3. Man About Town

Chapter 4. Dreaming and Musing

Chapter 5. Strange Interlude

Chapter 6. Kniébolo and the Nazis

Photograph Section II

Chapter 7. The Plot Against Hitler

Chapter 8. Telling Omissions

Chapter 9. Immediate Afterthoughts

Chapter 10. The Correspondent

Photograph Section III

Postscript: Liebe Sophie

Conclusion

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mitchell, Allan
Allan Mitchell (1933-2016) received his PhD from Harvard in 1961, then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of California, San Diego (1972-1992). His most recent books were The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry 1815–1914 (Berghahn Books, 2000); Rêves Parisiens: L’échec de projets de transport public en France au XIXème siècle (Ponts-et-Chaussées, Paris, 2005); A Stranger in Paris: Germany’s Role in Republican France, 1870–1940 (Berghahn Books, 2006); and Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940–1944 (Berghahn Books, 2008).