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International Migration of German Great War Veterans - Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.  Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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