Dissonant lives : generations and violence through the German dictatorships / Mary Fulbrook.

Examines ways in which Germans of different generations lived through the violent eruptions and rapid regime changes of the 20th century, revealing striking generational patterns.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Violence and generations through the German dictatorships
  • Violence abroad : generations and the legacies of imperialism
  • Uncomfortable compatriots : societal violence and the crises of Weimar
  • Divided generations : state violence and the formation of 'two worlds' in Nazi Germany
  • The escalation of violence : war and genocide
  • Who was who in the GDR
  • and why? : The shifting formation of generations after 1945
  • Transitions from Nazism to communism
  • Mobilization for the future (again)
  • The 'iron cage' : coming to terms with the present
  • Embodying the past
  • Turning points
  • Conclusions : generations in an age of violence.