Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the traumatized German war veteran. This work traces how some of the most vulnerable members of society, marginalized and persecuted as 'enemies of the nation,' attempted to regain authority over their own minds and reclaim the authentic memory of the Great War.
Trade ReviewTheir story [...] richly deserves the nuanced and balanced reading that Crouthamel provides.
Thomas J. Saunders, German Studies Review 35/2 * German Studies Review 35/2 *
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introdcution
- 1 Healing the Nation's Nerves: Imperial Germany at War
- 2 The War Neurotics Return Home: Psychologically Disabled Veterans and Post-War Society, 1918-1920
- 3 Neurosis and the Welfare State: The Rise and Fall of the National Pension Law of 1920
- 4 'The Class Struggle Pyschosis': Working-Class Politics and Psychological Trauma
- 5 National Socialism and its Discontenst: War Neurosis and Memory under Hitler
- 6 Nazi Germany's Hidden Psychopaths: Case Studies of Mentally Disabled Veterans in the Third Reich
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
