In this fascinating examination of German texts written about the
First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the
relationship between culture and warfare. He focuses not only on
the literary voices of German authors whose works are found in a
library today but also on the wartime agencies, institutions, and
individuals that produced and distributed an enormous body of books
and printed materials during the First World War, the Weimar
period, and the years preceding World War II. The book argues that
the militarization of literature that occurred between 1914 and
1918 and the ways war events reconfigured literary institutions,
aesthetics, and cultural politics, help to explain how a military
ethos could remain vibrant in a defeated Germany and lay the
groundwork for another world war.
Natter draws on previously unexamined archival sources,
literature published between 1914 and 1940, and recent cultural,
historical, and literary debates. He considers how the German war
"experience" was mobilized by military, state, and private
institutions; how reading and the publishing industry influenced
history-making activities; and how post-war reassessments of the
lost war's meaning uncovered a powerful storehouse of cultural
ammunition that propelled and sustained National Socialism's rise
to power. In examining these issues within the context of German
nationalism, it also contributes to a general discussion regarding
the theories and cultural practices of twentieth-century
modernity.
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