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Synopsis
This book uses story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe s most volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose to flee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in the nation against which they had fought: the United States.
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Synopsis
.- Chapter 1: Introduction.
.- Chapter 2: The Weapons they carried: Brutality and Veterans' Memories of the First World War.
.- Chapter 3: Desertion: Emigrants' Wartime Mobility, their Transnational War Experience, and the Myths of War.
.- Chapter 4: Emigration, National Loyalty and Identity, and Anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
.- Epilogue.