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The war in their minds : German soldiers and their violent pasts in West Germany /

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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 comple...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goltermann, Svenja (Author)
Other Authors: Schmitz, Philip (Translator) (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subjects:
Veterans > Germany > Psychology.
Veterans > Mental health > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
War neuroses > Germany.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > Germany.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.