Fallen elites [electronic resource] : the military other in post-unification Germany / Andrew Bickford.

By: Bickford, Andrew, 1966-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011Description: xviii, 268 pISBN: 9780804777162 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee -- Officers -- Attitudes | Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee -- Officers -- Social conditions | Retired military personnel -- Germany -- Attitudes | Retired military personnel -- Germany -- Social conditions | Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 355.10943/109049 LOC classification: UB415.G3 | B53 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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