Fallen elites [electronic resource] : the military other in post-unification Germany / Andrew Bickford.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780804777162 (electronic bk.)
- 0804777160 (electronic bk.)
- Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee -- Officers -- Attitudes
- Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee -- Officers -- Social conditions
- Retired military personnel -- Germany -- Attitudes
- Retired military personnel -- Germany -- Social conditions
- Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990
- HISTORY / Military / General
- 355.10943/109049 22
- UB415.G3 B53 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.
Description based on print version record.