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The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 : Modern History of Politics and Violence - Paul Fox

The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933

By: Paul Fox, Paul Jackson (Editor), Raul Cârstocea (Editor)

Hardcover | 14 December 2017

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This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture. It explores thematic continuities in the post-conflict representation of battlefield identities, from the 25th anniversary of the Franco-Prussian War in 1895 to the demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933.

Using 40 carefully chosen images taken from both high and low culture, Paul Fox discusses complex, interdependent responses in German visual culture to a wide spectrum of operational military experience, including regional conflict, total war, internal security operations and border skirmishes, during the period. The book demonstrates how conservative artists, illustrators, photographers, and sculptors engaged in representing this full spectrum of conflict were preoccupied with the inequalities of battlefield encounters and the consequential quest for moral advantage. They furnished material that exemplified everything positive the ideal German male could hope to be when at war - even when the outcome was defeat. Their construction of an imagined martial masculinity based on an aggressive moral superiority was so deeply rooted that the continuities taken forward eventually provided a basis for a programmatic imagining of how Germany might again exert its political presence as a great military power in Central Europe after 1918.

The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 is an important volume for any historian interested cultural history, the history of modern Germany or the First World War.

Industry Reviews
This is an impeccably researched and original approach to the study of armed conflict and its mediation in visual culture. Paul Fox has constructed a fascinating exploration of how warring soldiers were represented in German cultural production between 1871 and 1933. Drawing on a mass of evidence and some remarkable visual material, the book reveals how conservative attitudes were shaped in Germany after defeat in the First World War and draws some compelling conclusions on the link between martial might and the visualisation of national identity.
Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President, RMIT University, Australia

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