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Postwar Soldiers: Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945-1955

Postwar Soldiers: Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945-1955

Echternkamp, Jörg

Hardcover

Series: Making Sense of History, Book 39

Armed ForcesGeneral Political ScienceGerman History

ISBN10: 1789205573
ISBN13: 9781789205572
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 20 2020
Pages: 570
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Contemporary historians have transformed our understanding of the German military in World War II, debunking the clean Wehrmacht myth that held most soldiers innocent of wartime atrocities. Considerably less attention has been paid to those soldiers at the end of hostilities. In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities' self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier. As Echternkamp shows, public controversies around these topics helped to drive the social processes that legitimized the democratic postwar order.

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