Fallen elites : the military other in post-unification Germany / / Andrew Bickford.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 268 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states
- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities
- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization
- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders
- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification
- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other
- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft
- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory
- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.