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Zusatztext This is an ambitious book. It comes on top of a number of outstanding contributions by Mary Fulbrook ... It sidesteps the systematic comparison of the German dictatorships by looking at private experience and changing subjectvities ... In doing so, it challenges the usual assumptions about the German Volksgemeinschaft. Informationen zum Autor Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. She is the author of numerous books and articles on German history, including Anatomy of a Dictatorship, also published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Zusammenfassung An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Violence and Generations 2: Violence Abroad: Aspects of Imperialism 3: Uncomfortable Compatriots: Societal Violence and the Crises of Weimar 4: Divided Generations: State Violence and the Formation of 'Two Worlds' in Nazi Germany 5: The Escalation of Violence: War and Genocide 6: Profiles: The Shifting Formation of Generations after 1945 7: Transitions from Nazism to Communism 8: Mobilization for the Future (Again) 9: The 'Iron Cage': Coming to Terms with the Present 10: Embodying the Past 11: Turning Points 12: Conclusions: Generations through an Age of Violence Bibliography Index
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An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them.
