The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's relationship to the Holocaust. From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail. For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his life in July 1944.

Germany and the Second World War: Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival

History

Förster, Jürgen

Blank, Ralf

Echternkamp, Jörg

Fings, Karola

Heinemann, Winfried

Jersak, Tobias

Nolzen, Armin

Rass, Christoph

Cook-Radmore, Derry

Europe

Clarendon Press

The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children, and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers, slave labourers, and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's relationship to the Holocaust. From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail. For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his life in July 1944.

Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion

Oxford University Press

1937-1947 : la guerre-monde (1)

Bourke, Joanna

COLLECTIFS

Chapoutot, Johann

Laurens, Henry

Traverso, Enzo

NDIAYE, Pap

Manley, Rebecca

Margolin, Jean-Louis

Singaravélou, Pierre

Jennings, Eric

Lieb, Peter

Mouré, Kenneth

ANDRIEU, Claire

Ferragu, Gilles

Fleury, Antoine

JOURNOUD PIERRE

Grosser, Pierre

Sanderson, Claire

Bantigny, Ludivine

Lambauer, Barbara

Compagnon, Olivier

Jeanpierre, Laurent

Martens, Stefan

Matard-Bonucci, Marie-Anne

Bruttmann, Tal

Lefèbvre, Camille

Tertrais, Hugues

Bruneau, Jean-Baptiste

Cerovic, Masha

Decorzant, Yann

Feiertag, Olivier

Fabreguet, Michel

Flechet, Anaïs

Noël, Jean-Sébastien

Forcade, Olivier

Gaida, Peter

Gomolinski, Olivia

Vaicbourdt, Nicolas

Kevonian, Dzovinar

Lespinois, Jérôme de

Lory, Bernard

Margairaz, Michel

Pratt, Valéry

Raflik, Jenny

Фоліо

1937-1947 : la guerre-monde (2)

Wie prägte der Zweite Weltkrieg das Verhältnis der Westdeutschen zum Militär in der formativen Phase der Bundesrepublik? Jörg Echternkamp nutzt das heuristische Instrument der "kollektiven Repräsentationen" (Chartier), um drei Themenkomplexe zu analysieren: die Deutungen des Krieges in seiner Endphase und in der Besatzungszeit, die Selbstbilder soldatischer Erfahrungsgemeinschaften sowie die Neuerfindung der bundesdeutschen Streitkräfte. Indem sie die Zeit vor 1945 integriert, kommt er zu einem innovativen Ergebnis: Die öffentlichen Kontroversen um Weltkrieg, Wehrmacht und Wertorientierung waren kein Hemmnis, sondern ein dynamisches Element jenes diskursiven und sozialen Prozesses, der die demokratisch-pluralistische Nachkriegsordnung in Westdeutschland legitimiert hat.

Soldaten im Nachkrieg: Historische Deutungskonflikte und westdeutsche Demokratisierung 1945-1955 (Beiträge zur Militärgeschichte, 76) (German Edition)

Reference

Walter de Gruyter

Langeoog – Biographie einer deutschen Insel: Bd. 1: Das Nordseebad zwischen Monarchie und Republik Bd. 2: Tourismus und Nationalsozialismus, 1933–1939 (German Edition)

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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