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Postwar Soldiers

MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY

Studies in Historical Cultures

General Editor: Stefan Berger

Founding Editor: Jrn Rsen

Bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory, this series crosses the boundaries between both academic disciplines and cultural, social, political, and historical contexts. In an age of rapid globalization, which tends to manifest itself on an economic and political level, locating the cultural practices involved in generating its underlying historical sense is an increasingly urgent task.

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POSTWAR SOLDIERS

Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 19451955

Jrg Echternkamp

Translated from the German by Noah Harley

Published in 2020 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

English-language edition 2020 Berghahn Books

German-language edition 2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH Berlin Boston.

This work may not be translated or copied in whole or part without the written permission of the publisher (Walter De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Stae 13, 10785 Berlin, Germany).

Originally published in German as Echternkamp, Jrg: Soldaten im Nachkrieg.

The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT, and the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).

The publication of this work was supported by the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences.

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for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Echternkamp, Jrg, author. | Harley, Noah, translator.

Title: Postwar Soldiers: Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 19451955 / Jrg Echternkamp; translated from the German by Noah Harley.

Other titles: Soldaten im Nachkrieg. English

Description: First edition. | New York: Berghahn Books, [2020] | Series: Making Sense of History; vol 39 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019047382 (print) | LCCN 2019047383 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789205572; (hardback) | ISBN 9781789205589; (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Veteran reintegrationGermany (West) | World War, 1939-1945Germany (West)Peace. | Germany (West)History.

Classification: LCC UB359.G3 E34813 2020 (print) | LCC UB359.G3 (ebook) | DDC 305.9/0697094309044dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047382

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047383

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-78920-557-2 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78920-558-9 ebook

Contents

Acknowledgments

It likely comes as no surprise that a book that deals with the history of the past itself has a long history. At the center of my initial interest since starting at the Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Military History Research OfficeMGFA) at the end of the 1990s were the experiences of the end phase of the war and the immediate postwar period in Germany around 1945. This was suspended by a large, multiyear project concerning German wartime society between 1939 and 1945. Ultimately, this intensive engagement with the cultural and social history of World War II offered a suitable point of departure from which to consider the transformation from a dictatorship to a democracy, or the path out of the war. The project profited by an uninterrupted process of recollection, a revamped military history, and contemporary historical trends that hauled the dusty years of the 1950s out of the cedar chest to reveal them in a new light.

This work has been made considerably easier by collaboration from many sides; the majority came about under the auspices of my activity at the Zentrum fr Militrgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam, until 2012 the MGFA). In the end, the fact that it could be completed at the center despite other official responsibilities owes in particular to Winfried Heinemann, my departmental leader of many years, and Hans-Hubertus Mack as the commander of the center. Additionally, my express thanks goes to Gisela Baus and Petra Nippold for their professional technical support at the center, as well as the library team around Gabriele Bosch. I also must thank, at least in brief, the employees of other institutions, in particular the specialist archives in Germanyabove all the military department of the Bundesarchivin France, Great Britain, and the United States, who willingly answered my enquiries and provided access to documents.

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