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Contested Commemorations - Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture (Paperback)
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Contested Commemorations - Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture (Paperback)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how
experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along
political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and
performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann
reveals how individual recollections fed into the public narrative
of the experience of war. Challenging conventional wisdom that
nationalist narratives dominated commemoration, this book
demonstrates that Social Democrat war veterans participated in the
commemoration of the war at all levels: supporting the 'no more
war' movement, mourning the fallen at war memorials and demanding a
politics of international solidarity. It describes how the moderate
Socialist Left related the legitimacy of the Republic to their
experiences in the Imperial army and acknowledged the military
defeat of 1918 as a moment of liberation. This is the first
comprehensive analysis of war remembrances in post-war Germany and
a radical reassessment of the democratic potential of the Weimar
Republic.
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