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The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 (Hardcover)
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The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 (Hardcover)
Series: A Modern History of Politics and Violence
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This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German
visual culture, exploring thematic continuities in the
post-conflict representation of battlefield identities from the
Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71 to the demise of the Weimar Republic
in 1933. Using over 40 representative images sampled from both high
and popular culture, Paul Fox discusses complex and interdependent
visual responses to a wide spectrum of historical events, spanning
world war, regional conflict, internal security operations, and
border skirmishes. The book demonstrates how all the artists,
illustrators and photographers whose work is addressed here were
motivated to affirm German moral superiority on the battlefield.
They produced images that advanced dominant notions of how the
ideal German man should behave when at war - even when the outcome
was defeat. Their construction of an imagined martial masculinity
based on aggressive moral superiority became so deeply rooted in
German culture that it eventually provided the basis for a
programmatic imagining of how Germany might again recover its
standing as a great military power in Central Europe in the wake of
defeat in 1918. The Image of the Soldier in German Culture,
1871-1933 is an important volume for any historian interested
cultural history, the representation of armed conflict in European
culture, the history of modern Germany, the Franco-Prussian War,
and the First World War.
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