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A German generation : an experiential history of the twentieth century / Thomas A. Kohut.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kohut, Thomas August.
- Series:
- New directions in narrative history.
- New directions in narrative history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germans--Ethnic identity.
- Germans.
- National socialism.
- Oral history--Germany.
- Oral history.
- World War, 1914-1918--Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "We Have All, Always, Sought The Collective"
- 1. Interviews: Youth
- 2. Analysis: Finding The Collective In The Youth Movement "Group"
- 3. Essays
- 4. Interviews: Young Adulthood
- 5. Analysis: Extending The Collective In The Community Of The Volk
- 6. Essays
- 7. Interviews: Maturity
- 8. Analysis: Resurrecting The Collective In The Generational "Circle"
- 9. Essays
- Conclusion: The Authority Of Historical Experience
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613436825
- 9781283436823
- 1283436825
- 9780300178043
- 0300178042
- OCLC:
- 774394443
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