Kuhlman, Erika.

The International Migration of German Great War Veterans Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942 / [electronic resource] : by Erika Kuhlman. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint), 2016. - XI, 116 p. 1 illus. online resource.

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. .

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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Europe-History-1492-.
Europe, Central-History.
United States-History.
Migration.

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