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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Contested commemorations
    sub title: republican war veterans and Weimar political culture
  name:
    name part: Ziemann, Benjamin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyzes how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann reveals how individual recollections fed into the public narrative of the experience of war. Challenging conventional wisdom that nationalist narratives dominated commemoration, this book demonstrates that Social Democrat war veterans participated in the commemoration of the war at all levels, including supporting the 'no more war' movement, mourning the fallen at war memorials and demanding a politics of international solidarity. It describes how the moderate Socialist Left related the legitimacy of the Republic to their experiences in the Imperial army and acknowledged the military defeat of 1918 as a moment of liberation. This is the first comprehensive analysis of war remembrances in post-war Germany and a radical reassessment of the democratic potential of the Weimar Republic.
  table of contents: "A short period of insight": symbolizing defeat as liberation, 1918-1923 -- Republican war memories: the Reichsbanner Black Red Gold -- The personal microcosm of Reichsbanner activism -- Public commemorations and republican politics -- In search of a national symbol, 1924-1933 -- Pacifist veterans and the politics of military history -- Mass media and the changing texture of war remembrance, 1928-1933.
  note: Benjamin Ziemann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-305) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Veterans
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    genre: Personal narratives, German
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Veterans
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: War memorials
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Memory
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1918-1933
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1918-1933
  classification: DD238 .Z54 2013
  classification: 940.4/6094309042
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
  identifier: 9781107028890 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1107028892 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2012024506
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120622
    record change date: 20151204205422.0
    record identifier: in00003153407