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German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s mostvolatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, aftergreat expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose toflee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in thenation against which they had fought: the United States.
ErikaKuhlman is Professor of history at Idaho State University, USA. She is theauthor of books about the Great War, including the peace movement, nations’ attemptsto reconcile with each other after the war, and war widows in Germany and theUnited States.
Chapter 1: Introduction. .- Chapter 2: The Weapons they carried: Brutality andVeterans’ Memories of the First World War.- Chapter 3: Desertion: Emigrants’ Wartime Mobility,their Transnational War Experience, and the Myths of War..- Chapter 4: Emigration, National Loyalty andIdentity, and Anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany..- Epilogue.