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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 into the public narrative of the experience of war. Challenging conventional wisdom that nationalist narratives dominated commemoration, this book demonstrates that Social Democrat war veterans participated in the commemoration of the war at all levels: supporting the 'no more war' movement, mourning the fallen at war memorials and demanding a politics of international solidarity. It describes how the moderate Socialist Left related the legitimacy of the Republic to their experiences in the Imperial army and acknowledged the military defeat of 1918 as a moment of liberation. This is the first comprehensive analysis of war remembrances in post-war Germany and a radical reassessment of the democratic potential of the Weimar Republic.

Introduction: the Cold War as an imaginary war / Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann -- The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the Cold War / Eva Horn -- Building peace, fearing the apocalypse? Nuclear danger in Soviet Cold War culture / Miriam Dobson -- Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul Boyer -- The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 / Matthew Grant -- German angst? Debating Cold War anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 / Benjamin Ziemann -- After Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique / Jason Dawsey -- Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's Cold War / Ann Sherif -- Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 / Daniel Gerster -- "The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots": physicians and their therapies for the Cold War / Claudia Kemper -- Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world / Paul Rubinson -- Images of nuclear war in US government films from the early Cold War / Lars Nowak

Introduction. The cold war as an imaginary war -- Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann 1. The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war -- Eva Horn 2. Building peace, fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91 -- Miriam Dobson 3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present -- Paul Boyer 4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 -- Matthew Grant 5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 -- Benjamin Ziemann 6. After Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique -- Jason Dawsey 7. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's cold war -- Ann Sheriff 8. Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 -- Daniel Gerster 9. 'The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots.' Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War -- Claudia Kemper 10. Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world -- Paul Rubinson 11. Images of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war -- Lars Nowak Index