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Published in Germany in 2009, The War in Their Minds explores the perception of German soldiers after World War II, both as perpetrators and victims of violence during the war, and addresses the history of postwar psychiatry and public memory. Prize-winning historian Svenja Goltermann treats this demanding material with care. First exploring how former soldiers’ memories of war shaped their daily lives, she analyses contemporary psychiatric interpretations of veterans’ psychic afflictions and notions of post-war disability. In the final section, the author focuses on how psychiatric knowledge informed the public memory of war in the popular media.

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A conceptually rigorous book that begins and ends with a moral quandary: how might we create ways of recognizing the impact of mass violence on those who acquiesced, supported, or fell victim to the war and the regime responsible for unleashing it without denying, belittling, or collapsing the realms of difference between subject positions and victims groups? --German History Outstanding. . . . Scholars in many historical fields will find it stimulating for its innovative work with psychiatric reports and the way it thinks about the reception of Holocaust and War in terms of expert knowledge. --Mark Roseman, Indiana University

A conceptually rigorous book that begins and ends with a moral quandary: how might we create ways of recognizing the impact of mass violence on those who acquiesced, supported, or fell victim to the war and the regime responsible for unleashing it without denying, belittling, or collapsing the realms of difference between subject positions and victims groups? --German History

A conceptually rigorous book that begins and ends with a moral quandary: how might we create ways of recognizing the impact of mass violence on those who acquiesced, supported, or fell victim to the war and the regime responsible for unleashing it without denying, belittling, or collapsing the realms of difference between subject positions and victims groups? <i>German History</i>

A conceptually rigorous book that begins and ends with a moral quandary: how might we create ways of recognizing the impact of mass violence on those who acquiesced, supported, or fell victim to the war and the regime responsible for unleashing it without denying, belittling, or collapsing the realms of difference between subject positions and victims groups? --German History Outstanding. . . . Scholars in many historical fields will find it stimulating for its innovative work with psychiatric reports and the way it thinks about the reception of Holocaust and War in terms of expert knowledge. --Mark Roseman, Indiana University

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Svenja Goltermann is Professor of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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