LEADER 04042cam a2200517Ii 4500001 266413 005 20180725170356.0 008 171004t20182018njua b 001 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)on1005116510 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dQGJ |dGK8 |dERASA |dLPU |dCDX |dTXMCL |dFM0 |dQGJ |dHTM |dCPL |dOCLCF |dCHVBK |dLHM 020 9780691174587 |q(hardback) 020 069117458X |q(hardback) 043 e-gx--- 050 4 JN3971.A91 |bJ36 2018 049 LHMA 100 1 Jarausch, Konrad Hugo, |eauthor. 245 10 Broken lives : |bhow ordinary Germans experienced the twentieth century / |cKonrad H. Jarausch. 264 1 Princeton ;Oxford : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 xiii, 446 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-435) and index. 505 00 |gIntroduction: |tNarratives of German experiences -- |gPART I: PREWAR CHILDHOOD -- |g1. |tImperial ancestors -- |g2. |tWeimar children -- |g3. |tNazi adolescents -- |gPART II: WARTIME YOUTH -- |g4. |tMale violence -- |g5. |tFemale struggles -- |g6. |tVictims' suffering -- |gPART III: POSTWAR ADULTHOOD -- |g7. |tDefeat as new beginning -- |g8. |tDemocratic maturity -- |g9. |tCommunist disappointment -- |gConclusion: |tMemories of fractured lives 520 8 Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of people who lived through the Third Reich, World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Written decades after the events, these testimonies, many of them unpublished, look back on the mistakes of young people caught up in the Nazi movement. In many, early enthusiasm turns to deep disillusionment as the price of complicity with a brutal dictatorship--fighting at the front, aerial bombing at home, murder in the concentration camps-becomes clear.Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators and victims, Broken Lives reveals the intimate human details of historical events and offers new insights about persistent questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally distance themselves from this racist dictatorship and come to embrace human rights? Jarausch argues that this generation's focus on its own suffering, often maligned by historians, ultimately led to a more critical understanding of national identity-one that helped transform Germany from a military aggressor into a pillar of European democracy. 650 0 Political culture |zGermany. 651 0 Germany |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Germany |xSocial conditions |y20th century. 651 0 Germany |xEconomic conditions |y20th century. 650 4 Germans |xEconomic conditions |y20th century. 650 4 Political culture |zGermany. 651 4 Germany |xHistory |y20th century. 651 4 Germany |xSocial conditions |y20th century. 650 7 Economic history. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 Political culture. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069263 650 7 Social conditions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 650 7 Alltag. |0(DE-588)4001307-8 |2gnd 650 7 Lebenslauf. |0(DE-588)4034869-6 |2gnd 650 7 |6880-01Nationalbewusstsein. |0(DE-588)4041282-9 |2gnd 651 7 Deutschland. |0(DE-588)4011882-4 |2gnd 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 880 7 |6650-01Kollektives Geda��chtnis. |0(DE-588)4200793-8 |2gnd 852 0 |bstacks |hJN3971.A91 |iJ36 2018