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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779098703321

Autore

Kohut Thomas August

Titolo

A German generation : an experiential history of the twentieth century / / Thomas A. Kohut

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-43682-5

9786613436825

0-300-17804-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)

Collana

New directions in narrative history

Classificazione

HIS014000HIS037070HIS054000

Disciplina

943.087

Soggetti

Germans - Ethnic identity

National socialism

Oral history - Germany

World War, 1914-1918 - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

Germany History 20th century

Germany Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "We Have All, Always, Sought The Collective" -- 1. Interviews: Youth -- 2. Analysis: Finding The Collective In The Youth Movement "Group" -- 3. Essays -- 4. Interviews: Young Adulthood -- 5. Analysis: Extending The Collective In The Community Of The Volk -- 6. Essays -- 7. Interviews: Maturity -- 8. Analysis: Resurrecting The Collective In The Generational "Circle" -- 9. Essays -- Conclusion: The Authority Of Historical Experience -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically



engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal.