A German generation
an experiential history of the twentieth century
by Thomas August Kohut
"Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings. On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal"--
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World War, 1914-1918, Ethnic identity, World War, 1939-1945, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, National socialism, Social conditions, Oral history, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germans, History, World war, 1914-1918, germany, Germany, history, 20th century, Germany, social conditionsTimes
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A German generation: an experiential history of the twentieth century
2012, Yale University Press
in English
0300170033 9780300170030
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