TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bickford,Andrew
TI  - Fallen elites: the military other in post-unification Germany 
SN  - 9780804777162
AV  - UB415.G3 B53 2011eb
U1  - 355.10943/109049 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Nationale Volksarmee
KW  - Officers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Retired military personnel
KW  - Germany
KW  - Militaires retraités
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - History
KW  - Unification, 1990
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 1990 (Réunification)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering
N2  - Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum. Gaining unprecedented entry into the lives of former East German officers in unified Germany, Bickford relates how these men and their families have come to terms with the shock of
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