German atrocities, 1914
Subtitle: a history of denial
By: John Horne and Alan Kramer.
Contributors: Kramer, Alan, 1954-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities; World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany; World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium; World War, 1914-1918 -- France; War crimes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-595) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Invasion, 1914; title: Chapter 1 German invasion, part 1; title: [1] The shock of Liege; title: [2] The First and Second Armies to the French frontier; title: [3] The destruction of Louvain; title: [4] The Third Army and Dinant; title: Chapter 2 German invasion, part 2; title: [1] The battle of the Ardennes; title: [2] The Germans in the Meurthe-et-Moselle; title: [3] To the Marne and back: September-October 1914; title: [4] The pattern of German military violence towards civilians; title: [5] Comparisons; title: Part II War of illusions? 'Francs-tireurs' and; title: 'German atrocities', 1914; title: Chapter 3 The German army and the myth of the; title: francs-tireurs, 1914; title: [1] Concepts and precedents; title: [2] The myth-complex of the 'franc-tireur war'; title: [3] The military situation and the franc-tireur fear; title: [4] The internal dynamic of the franc-tireur fear; title: Chapter 4 Memories, mentalities, and the German; title: response to the 'franc-tireur war'; title: [1] Memories of 1870 and the laws of war; title: [2] German nationalism: externalizing the enemy within; title: [3] The German way of war? Responding to the; title: 'franc-tireur war'; title: Chapter 5 Allied opinion and German atrocities',; title: August-October 1914; title: [1] Refugees, soldiers, and the Allied invasion 'lear' of 1914; title: [2] Allied narratives of victimhood; title: [3] Rape, mutilation, and severed hands; title: [4] Representing 'German atrocities': the role ol' the press; title: [5] Memories, mentalities, and the cotlstrllicl.ioi ol'(ierlnan; title: atrocities'; title: Part III War of words, 1914-1918: German; title: atrocities and the meanings of war; title: Chapter 6 The battle of officia reports and the tribunal; title: of world opinion; title: [1] The battle of official reports: the Allied ch.argcs; title: [2] German counter-attack: the 'White Book'; title: [3] The Belgian riposte: the 'Grey Ilook' a(l li'ernall van; title: Langenhove; title: [4] Neutral witness and the tribunal ol' world opinion; title: Chapter 7 Communities of truth and the atrocities'; title: question; title: [1] Socialists; title: [2] Catholics; title: [3] Intellectuals; title: Chapter 8 Wartime culture and enemy atrocities; title: [1] War cultures and the unreconcilable ellemly; title: [2] War cultures and national martyrdom; title: [3] Sustaining the meaning of 1914; title: Part IV The impossible consensus: German; title: atrocities and memories of war from; title: 1919; title: Chapter 9 The moral reckoning: Versailles and the war; title: crimes trials; title: [1] Versailles; title: [2] The Leipzig war crimes trials, 1921; title: [3] War cultures after the war; title: Chapter 10 German atrocities and the politics of memory; title: [1] The pacifist turn: German atrocities as Allied propaganda; title: [2] Locarno and the politics of memory; title: [3] The Second World War and after; title: Conclusion and perspectives; title: Appendices; title: [1] German atrocities in 1914: incidents with ten or more; title: civilians killed; title: [2] Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs; title: of War on Land (1907); title: [3] The Treaty of Versailles, Articles 227-230; title: [4] Allied demands for the extradition of enemy war; title: criminals, 1920.