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Bezig met laden... German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001)door John Horne, Alan Kramer (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a truly impressive work of history. It's history that only the most skilled and versatile historians can research and write. It explores the war crimes against civilians committed in Belgium and northern France by the German army in the summer of 1914 from several angles, including military history, social history, and intellectual history. Each angle is based on copious and meticulous research in a wide range of primary sources. The authors also do a great job of placing the the story they uncover in a larger context, including the history of armies' conduct with regard to civilians and international efforts at the turn of the twentieth century to place limits on acceptable conduct of armies. Although the tale the authors tell is gripping and tragic, they do so in a thoroughly analytic manner that lets the reader understand the complex causes and consequences of these events. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen. Wikipedia in het Engels (17)Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)940.405History and Geography Europe Europe Military History Of World War I General Aspects Repressions & AtrocitiesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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