Benjamin Ziemann: 3 books
Contested Commemorations
Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann reveals how individual recollections fed...
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War
Killing, Dying, Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Translated into English as the Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Prize for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015.
During the Great War, mass killing took place on an unprecedented scale. Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War explores the practice...
War Experiences in Rural Germany
1914-1923
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World War I was a uniquely devastating total war that surpassed all previous conflicts for its destruction. But what was the reality like on the ground, for both the soldiers on the front-lines and the women on the homefront?
Drawing on intimate firsthand accounts in diaries and letters, 'War...