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The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans After the Second World War
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A very interesting and readable account of how former Nazi war veterans reacted to defeat in 1945, and successfully re-adjusted to life under the Federal German Republic.--History Today (UK) A major contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic. . . . Provides the first systematic account of one of the most important chapters of postwar West German social welfare policy.--American Historical Review This cogently written and organized work analyzes the social, economic, and political integration of organized veterans into the Federal Republic of Germany during the decade following World War II.--German Studies Review [An] important monograph that evaluates a wide range of archival materials and, in an extensive conclusion, offers many thoughtful comparisons concerning the situation of German ex-soldiers and their families after the two World Wars.--Journal of Modern History Meticulously researched and ably written. . . . It deserves serious attention.--Central European History The first full-scale study of veterans politics in Germany after World War II. In analyzing how German soldiers organizations behaved in the postwar milieu, Diehl provides an invaluable case study in the political culture of the young Federal Republic. His book is thoroughly grounded in archival research, intelligently conceptualized, and very gracefully written.--David C. Large, Montana State University

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The Thanks Of The Fatherland

German Veterans after the Second World War

JAMES M. DIEHL

The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill & London

title	:	The Thanks of the Fatherland : German Veterans After the Second World War
author	:	Diehl, James M.
publisher	:	University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0807820776
print isbn13	:	9780807820773
ebook isbn13	:	9780807861035
language	:	English
subject	Veterans--Germany.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	UB359.G3D5 1993eb
ddc	:	362.86/0943
subject	:	Veterans--Germany.

1993 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Portions of this book appeared earlier, in different form, in "Victors or Victims?: Disabled Veterans in the Third Reich," Journal of Modern History (December 1987), 1987 by The University of Chicago, all rights reserved, and "Germany in Defeat, 1918 and 1945: Some Comparisons and Contrasts," The History Teacher (August 1989), and are used here with the permission of, respectively, the University of Chicago Press and the Society for History Education.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Diehl, James M.
The thanks of the fatherland: German veterans after
the Second World War / by James M. Diehl.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2077-6 (alk. paper)
1. VeteransGermany. I Title.
UB359.G3D5 1993
362.86'0943dc20

92-50811

CIP

97 96 95 94 93 5 4 3 2 1

For my mother,
who first taught me
the virtue of trying to
understand the points
of view of those with
whom you disagree

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

One
World War I, Veterans, and the Weimar Republic

Two
Veterans in the Third Reich

Three
The Aftermath of War: The Occupation Years

Four
Early and Provisional Legislation

Five
The Federal War Victims' Benefits Law

109

Six
The 131 Law

141

Seven
The Price of Success: The Search for New Missions

163

Eight
The Verband deutscher Soldaten

186

Conclusion

227

Page viii

Notes

243

Bibliography

315

Index

333

Page ix

Preface

Like most books, this one took much longer to complete than its author expected; also, as is often the case, it is a compromise. Both were caused in part by deliberation and vacillation over what the scope and structure of the book should be. Originally, it was conceived of as an extended essay dealing with the fate of German veterans after the Second World War. As research proceeded, however, the siren call of writing a comprehensive history of German veterans in the twentieth century began to beckon. This authorial version of the "totalitarian temptation" was alternately encouraged and checked by archival finds that, on the one hand, revealed the richness of the topic and, on the other, made manifest its immensity. Eventually I concluded that I had neither the time nor the desire to become involved in what could easily become a lifetime project. The idea of a comprehensive history was abandoned and a compromise was made. This book is the result. It makes no attempt to recapture the experience of all veterans during and after the two world wars. Instead it focuses on the activities of organized veterans, always a small proportion of the entire veteran population. The book's main emphasis is on the problems facing German veterans after the Second World War and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany's defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided by the first two chapters and the conclusion, which attempts to compare and contrast the fate of veterans and their sociopolitical impact on German society following the two world wars. A full account of the experience of German veterans and their impact on German society in the twentieth century remains to be written. I hope that this book will provide a useful contribution to that story.

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