Germany After the First World War by Richard Bessel

Germany After the First World War by Richard Bessel

This is a social history of Germany in the years following the First World War. Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of her armies had devastating social and psychological consequences for the nation, which Richard Bessel sets out to explore in this book. Dr Bessel examines the changes brought by the war to Germany, and those resulting from the return of the soldiers to civilian life and the subsequent demobilization of the economy. He demonstrates that the postwar transition was viewed as a moral crusade by Germans desperately concerned about challenges to traditional authority, assessing the ways in which the experience of the War, and memories of it, affected the politics of the Weimar Republic. This is an original and scholarly book which offers us important insights into the sense of dislocation experienced of both personal and national levels by Germany and Germans in the 1920s, and its damaging legacy for German democracy.

splendidly well-documented book.. One of the many things in this book is the way it demonstrates that civilian life in wartime Imperial Germany was indeed very unpleasant. Times Literary Supplement

Bessel, Richard: -

Richard Bessel is a professor of twentieth-century history at the University of York and the author of Nazism and War.

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ISBN 13	9780198205869
ISBN 10	0198205864
Title	Germany After the First World War
Author	Richard Bessel
Series	Clarendon Paperbacks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1995-03-02
Number of pages	340
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