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Author:

Ku˜hne, Thomas, 1958- author.

Title:

The rise and fall of comradeship : Hitler's soldiers, male bonding and mass violence in the twentieth century / Thomas Ku˜hne, Clark University.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

vii, 304 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Germany.--Heer--History--History--20th century.
Germany.--Heer--History--World War, 1939-1945.
Soldiers--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
Soldiers--Germany--History--History--20th century.
Fellowship--History--20th century.
Male friendship--Germany--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: a concept from a different world -- Part I. The myth of comradeship, 1914-1939 -- Healing -- Coalescence -- Steeling -- Part II. The practice of comradeship, 1939-1945 -- Assimilation -- Megalomania -- Nemesis -- Part III. The decline of comradeship, 1945-1995 -- Privatisation -- Integration -- Demonisation -- Conclusion: protean masculinity and Germany's 20th century.

Summary:

This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the soldiers' fighting morale. It also propelled these soldiers forward into war crimes and acts of mass murders. Yet, by practising comradeship, the soldiers could maintain the myth that they were morally sacrosanct. Post-1945, the notion of kameradschaft as the epitome of humane and egalitarian solidarity allowed Hitler's soldiers to join the euphoria for peace and democracy in the Federal Republic, finally shaping popular memories of the war through the end of the twentieth century.

ISBN:

1107658284
9781107658288
110704636X
9781107046368

OCLC:

(OCoLC)974035028

LCCN:

2016047830

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)