Healing the nation's nerves : imperial Germany at home -- The war neurotics return home : psychologically disabled veterans and postwar society, 1918-1920 -- Neurosis and the welfare state : the rise and fall of the national pension law of 1920 -- The class struggle psychosis : working-class politics and psychological trauma -- National socialism and its discontents : war neurosis and memory under Hitler -- Nazi Germany's hidden psychopaths : case studies of mentally disabled veterans in the Third Reich
Summary
The central focus of this book is the traumatized German war veteran. Using previously unexplored source material written by the psychologically scarred veterans themselves, this work traces how some of the most vulnerable members of society, marginalised and persecuted as 'enemies of the nation, ' attempted to regain authority over their own minds and reclaim the authentic memory of the Great War Under Weimar Germany and the Third Reich
