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Comrades betrayed : Jewish World War I veterans under Hitler /

Jewish veterans developed a distinctive manner of thinking and behaving as a consequence of their World War I experience, socialization in the military and status. They embraced specific ideologies of masculinity to counter Nazi antisemitic stereotypes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geheran, Michael, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Series:Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Germany.
Jewish veterans > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century.
Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Germany.
Jews, German > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Table of Contents:
  • Reappraising Jewish War Experiences, 1914-1918
  • The Politics of Comradeship : Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
  • "These Scoundrels are not the German People" : The Nazi Seizure of Power 1933-1935
  • Jewish Frontkämpfer and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft
  • Under the "Absolute" Power of National Socialism : 1938-1941
  • Defiant Germanness.