num_pages: 344
description: A social history of Germany in the years following the First World War, Germany After the First World War explores Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of its armies, events which had devastating social and psychological consequences for the nation. Richard Bessel examines thechanges brought by the War to Germany, including those resulting from the return of soldiers to civilian life and the effects of demobilization on the economy. He demonstrates that the postwar transition was viewed as a moral crusade by Germans desperately concerned about challenges to traditionalauthority; and he assesses the ways in which the experience of the War, and memories of it, affected the politics of the Weimar Republic.This original and scholarly book offers important insights into the sense of dislocation, both personal and national, experienced by Germany and Germans in the 1920s, and its damaging legacy for German democracy.
language: English
title: Germany after the First World War
titlecomplete: Germany after the First World War (Clarendon Paperbacks)
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Oxford University Press