- Summary
- This book examines German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I of the 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.
- Uniform Title
- Gesellschaft der Überlebenden. English
- Series
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Goltermann, Svenja, author.
- Published
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
©2017
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Introduction
Part I. Remembering the war : private fragments of memory, 1945-1949. Linguistic realms of war
Troubled homecoming
Social rubble
Part II. The production of psychiatric knowledge : professional transformations, 1945-1970. "Prevailing doctrine"
Contentious practices
The moral challenge, 1956-1970
Part III. Mental suffering and its changing acknowledgment in West German media : public negotiations, 1945-1970. Repatriated Wehrmacht veterans in the public eye
The reappearance of the persecuted and the rules governing what could be said in public memory culture
Conclusion.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schmitz, Philip (Translator), translator.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-422) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Remembering the war : private fragments of memory, 1945-1949. Linguistic realms of war -- Troubled homecoming -- Social rubble -- Part II. The production of psychiatric knowledge : professional transformations, 1945-1970. "Prevailing doctrine" -- Contentious practices -- The moral challenge, 1956-1970 -- Part III. Mental suffering and its changing acknowledgment in West German media : public negotiations, 1945-1970. Repatriated Wehrmacht veterans in the public eye -- The reappearance of the persecuted and the rules governing what could be said in public memory culture -- Conclusion.
Translated from the German.
