Erika Kuhlman

The International Migration of German Great War Veterans

Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942

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Produktbeschreibung

This book usesstory-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after theFirst World War. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50156-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9781137501561
• ISBN-10: 1137501561
• Artikelnr.: 44519035

Autorenporträt

Erika Kuhlman is Professor of history at Idaho State University, USA. She is the author of books about the Great War, including the peace movement, nations' attempts to reconcile with each other after the war, and war widows in Germany and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

.- 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.