Fallen elites
Subtitle: the military other in post-unification Germany
By: Andrew Bickford
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780804773959; 9780804773966
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Germany (East); Retired military personnel; Officers; Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee; Attitudes; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states; title: Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities; title: Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization; title: The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders; title: A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification; title: "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other; title: As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft; title: "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory; title: Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.