Fallen elites the military other in post-unification Germany /

Bickford, Andrew, 1966-

Fallen elites the military other in post-unification Germany / [electronic resource] : Andrew Bickford. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011. - xviii, 268 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780804777162 (electronic bk.)




Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee --Officers--Attitudes.
Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee --Officers--Social conditions.


Retired military personnel--Attitudes.--Germany
Retired military personnel--Social conditions.--Germany


Germany--History--Unification, 1990.


Electronic books.

UB415.G3 / B53 2011

355.10943/109049