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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction. The Problem: Paths Out of the War 1
6. Part I FORMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PROSPECTS FOR EXPERIENCE BEFORE 1945
7. Chapter 1. Heroic Images of War in the Age of Wars 45
8. Chapter 2. Shared Prospects for Experience in Total War 58
9. Chapter 3. The End of the War on the Horizon of Expectation, 1944–1945 72
10. Part II. A Criminal War?
11. Chapter 4. The Postwar Period as a Backdrop for Experience 95
12. Chapter 5. Demilitarization as an Allied Political Program 107
13. Chapter 6. Representation as a Legal Issue: The Military Leadership on Trial, 1945–1946 129
14. Chapter 7. Conflicting Ideas: The Wehrmacht between Elucidation and Myth 162
15. Chapter 8. Provisional Assessment 192
16. Part III. Veterans—An Experiential Community of “Victims”?
17. Introduction 199
18. Chapter 9. Self-Organization among Former Soldiers 207
19. Chapter 10. Internal and External Perceptions of Veterans: Victims and Achievers 219
20. Chapter 11. The Presence of the Absent: The Symbolic Representation and the Political Instrumentalization of Prisoners of War 240
21. Chapter 12. Experience versus Expectation: Consumption Critique and War Captivity 255
22. Chapter 13. Remembering the Fallen: Historical Signification between Commemorative Ceremony and Grave Care 267
23. Part IV. Competing Interpretations and Conferring Meaning: War Stories of “Others”
24. Chapter 14. The Military Resistance: Fostering Tradition as a Political Act and Biographical Challenge 279
25. Chapter 15. Defectors, Deserters, War Criminals: Mirroring Self-Images 302
26. Chapter 16. The Führer Abroad: Defense by Demarcation 319
27. Chapter 17. Traitors, Spies, and Other “Loners”: The War’s Trivialization in the Media 336
28. Chapter 18. Provisional Assessment 346
29. Part V. Historically Armed: Images of War and Soldiers in Military Leadership Philosophy and Political Public Relations Work
30. Introduction 351
31. Chapter 19. Military Self-Understanding between the “Old” and “New” Wehrmacht 359
32. Chapter 20. The Adenauer Government’s Eff orts at Integration in the Pre-political Realm 371
33. Chapter 21. Moral Rearmament: The Party Soldiers of the Free Democratic Party 388
34. Chapter 22. The Political Functionality of “Wartime Experience” in the Cold War 410
35. Chapter 23. Remilitarization as a Field of Tension in Collective Representations 425
36. Chapter 24. Provisional Assessment 443
37. Conclusion. A Prospective View and Summary 446
38. Bibliography 485
39. Index 537