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Published in Germany in 2009, The War in Their Minds explores the
perception of German soldiers after World War II, both as
perpetrators and victims of violence during the war, and addresses
the history of postwar psychiatry and public memory. Prize-winning
historian Svenja Goltermann treats this demanding material with
care. First exploring how former soldiers' memories of war shaped
their daily lives, she analyses contemporary psychiatric
interpretations of veterans' psychic afflictions and notions of
post-war disability. In the final section, the author focuses on
how psychiatric knowledge informed the public memory of war in the
popular media.
Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had
to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has
taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers' experience
of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience
after their return home. Part I of her 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. Originally published in German as Die Gesellschaft der
Uberlebenden, The War in Their Minds examines hitherto unused
source material-psychiatric medical files of soldiers-to make clear
how difficult it was for the soldiers and their families to
readjust to normal, everyday life. Goltermann allows these
testimonies of violence, guilt, justification, and helplessness
speak for themselves and sensitively explores how the pension
claims of returning soldiers were to compete with the claims of the
Holocaust victims to compensation.
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