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The Rise and Fall of Comradeship - Hitler's Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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The Rise and Fall of Comradeship - Hitler's Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship
shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers
across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using
individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne
reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the
practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third
Reich's pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the
soldiers' fighting morale. It also propelled these soldiers forward
into war crimes and acts of mass murders. Yet, by practising
comradeship, the soldiers could maintain the myth that they were
morally sacrosanct. Post-1945, the notion of kameradschaft as the
epitome of humane and egalitarian solidarity allowed Hitler's
soldiers to join the euphoria for peace and democracy in the
Federal Republic, finally shaping popular memories of the war
through the end of the twentieth century.
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