The International Migration of German Great War Veterans [electronic resource] : Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942 /
Kuhlman, Erika.author.
This book uses story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s most volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose to flee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in the nation against which they had fought: the United States. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Introduction.  -- Chapter 2: The Weapons they carried: Brutality and Veterans’ Memories of the First World War -- Chapter 3: Desertion: Emigrants’ Wartime Mobility, their Transnational War Experience, and the Myths of War. -- Chapter 4: Emigration, National Loyalty and Identity, and Anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. -- Epilogue. .
This book uses story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s most volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose to flee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in the nation against which they had fought: the United States. .
Emigration and immigration.
History of Modern Europe.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
US History.
Migration.