Broken Lives : How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century /

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Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarausch, Konrad Hugo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalbewusstsein
Lebenslauf
Alltag
Social conditions.
Political culture.
Economic history.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Political culture > Germany.
Deutschland
Germany.
Allemagne > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
Allemagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Germany > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Germany > Social conditions > 20th century.
Germany > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Narratives of German experiences
  • PART I: PREWAR CHILDHOOD
  • 1. Imperial ancestors
  • 2. Weimar children
  • 3. Nazi adolescents
  • PART II: WARTIME YOUTH
  • 4. Male violence
  • 5. Female struggles
  • 6. Victims' suffering
  • PART III: POSTWAR ADULTHOOD
  • 7. Defeat as new beginning
  • 8. Democratic maturity
  • 9. Communist disappointment
  • Conclusion: Memories of fractured lives.

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