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The war in their minds : German soldiers and their violent pasts in West Germany

Title
The war in their minds : German soldiers and their violent pasts in West Germany / Svenja Goltermann ; translated by Philip Schmitz.
Author
Goltermann, Svenja
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
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Additional Authors
Schmitz, Philip (Translator)
Description
viii, 428 pages; 24 cm
Summary
This book examines German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I of the book explores the ways in which veterans' experiences of wartime violence reshaped everyday family life, involving family members in complex ways. Part II offers an extensive analysis of the psychiatric response to this new category of patient, and in particular the reluctance of psychiatrists to recognize the psychic afflictions of former POWs as constituting the grounds for long-term disability. Part III analyzes the cultural representations of veterans' psychic suffering, encompassing the daily press, popular films, novels, and theater.
Series Statement
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Uniform Title
  • Gesellschaft der Überlebenden. English
  • Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Alternative Title
Gesellschaft der Überlebenden.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the German.
Contents
Part I. Remembering the war: private fragments of memory, 1945-1949 -- Linguistic realms of war -- Troubled homecoming -- Social rubble -- Part II. The production of psychiatric knowledge: professional transformations, 1945-1970 -- "Prevailing doctrine" -- Contentious practices -- The moral challenge, 1956-1970 -- Part III. Mental suffering and its changing acknowledgment in West German media: public negotiations, 1945-1970 -- Repatriated Wehrmacht veterans in the public eye -- The reappearance of the persecuted and the rules governing what could be said in public memory culture -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 17-3809
ISBN
  • 9780472118977
  • 0472118978
LCCN
2016031014
OCLC
963439100
Author
Goltermann, Svenja, author.
Title
The war in their minds : German soldiers and their violent pasts in West Germany / Svenja Goltermann ; translated by Philip Schmitz.
Publisher
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Translated from the German.
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Indexed Term
(fast)World War (1939-1945)
(fast)1900-1999
(lcsh)Veterans--Germany--Psychology.
(lcsh)Veterans--Mental health--Germany--History--20th century.
(lcsh)World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany.
(lcsh)World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
(lcsh)War neuroses--Germany.
(lcsh)Post-traumatic stress disorder--Germany.
(fast)Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(fast)Psychological aspects.
(fast)Veterans.
(fast)Veterans--Mental health.
(fast)Veterans--Psychology.
(fast)War neuroses.
(fast)Germany.
(fast)History.
Added Author
Schmitz, Philip (Translator), translator.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-3809
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