Jörg Echternkamp

Hans-Hubertus Mack

In this volume, renowned authors from 25 nations seek to examine the European dimensions of military history in order to expand the narrow viewpoint of national history. This innovative work examines for the first time the upheavals of war and peace, changes in civilian-military relations, endogenous and exogenous portrayals of the military, and the relationships of armed forces within military alliances since the 19th century.

Europäische Dimensionen der Militärgeschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute

Geschichte ohne Grenzen?

Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen - der Zweite Weltkrieg

Thomas Vogel

Wolfgang Schmidt

Dieser Band geht auf eine Tagung des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes zurück. Über 30 ausgewiesene Fachleute aus dem In- und Ausland berichten über neuere Perspektiven der Militärgeschichtsschreibung. Sie analysieren die Entwicklung des Faches nach 1945 und gehen anhand der Leitthemen "Raum", "Gewalt" und "Repräsentation" den Ursachen, den Erträgen und den Chancen dieser boomenden Teildisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaft nach. Sie geben Hinweise darauf, wie die militärgeschichtliche Grundlagenforschung der historischen Bildung in den Streitkräften sowie der Traditionsstiftung nutzbar gemacht werden kann.

Raum, Gewalt und Repräsentation in historischer Forschung und Bildung

Perspektiven der Militärgeschichte

Christoph Rass

Karola Fings

Jürgen Förster

Ralf Blank

Tobias Jersak

Armin Nolzen

Winfried Heinemann

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.

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

Germany and the Second World War

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.

Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955

Postwar Soldiers

Stephan Jaeger

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Views of Violence

Volume IX/II of this series draws on a range of historical sources to explore the effect that the Second World War had on the people of Germany, whether they were practically involved in the war effort, or struggling to maintain a normal existance

German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion

Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/II

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 theHolocaust.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

Stefan Martens

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people's experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.

Jörg Echternkamp

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