Sparta's German Children

Roche, Helen

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“…6 The exploitation of the Sparta/Thermopylae topic has a long German tradition, with a peak during WWII. See: Roche (2013). 7 See, also, inscriptions on the highly controversial Hungarian memorial stones.…”

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Go East, Old Man: The Ritual Spaces of SS Veterans’ Memory Work

Werther

Hurd

2014

Cult. Unbound

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This article uses social-movement analysis to understand the rituals, memorywork and spatialties of Waffen-SS veterans and their sympathizers. Most socialmovement analysis focuses on left-wing protesters; our concern is with the marginalized counter-narratives, rituals and-spaces produced by the self-proclaimed misunderstood "heroes" of World War Two. This counter-hegemonic selfdefinition is essential to these former world-war soldiers who, despite an internal mythology of idealistic self-sacrifice, are vilified in West-European master narratives. We discuss how, during the 1990s, veterans and their sympathizers sought to replace rituals of memory-work in the newly-opened East. We look at how the Waffen-SS's ritual memory-work is "replaced" in alternative settings, includingperhaps surprisingly-Russia itself. Here, Waffen-SS veterans use new, official, semi-sacred places to anchor both an alternative identity and an alternative definition of the central meanings of modern European history.

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Go East, Old Man: The Ritual Spaces of SS Veterans’ Memory Work

Werther

Hurd

2014

Cult. Unbound

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“…12 All boys who attended the schools had to possess the requisite racial attributes, as well as displaying great academic and physical prowess; character traits such as daredevilishness (Draufgängertum) and sheer courage were also considered paramount, and the week-long NPEA entrance examination rigorously put all these qualities to the test. 13 Again, unlike the Adolf-Hitler-Schools, the Napolas did generally follow the standard secondary school curriculum, using the same textbooks as other schools throughout the Third Reich. 14 However, a much greater emphasis was placed upon sport and pre-military training at the NPEA, and the tenor of boarding-school life was often most reminiscent of the tradition of the Prussian Cadet Corps, one of Rust's explicit models for the institution.…”

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Surviving 'Stunde Null': Narrating the Fate of Nazi Elite-School Pupils during the Collapse of the Third Reich

Roche

2015

German History

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The image of the eyewitness as the historian's enemy ('der Zeitzeuge als Feind des Historikers') has become something of a commonplace in German scholarship in recent years-seemingly part of an amorphous (yet nonetheless very real) anxiety among professional historians that popular perceptions of their discipline are all too easily dominated by media-driven affect and emotive stimuli, rather than the drier, more sober products of 'rational enquiry'. 1 Yet, at the same time, figures such as Konrad Jarausch and Robert Moeller have made an appeal for a less divisive, more analytical approach towards the evidence of these contemporary eyewitnesses ('witnesses of time'), which can 'treat individual tales as stories, asking about their emplotment to unlock their meaning'. 2 In this context, Robert Moeller has particularly stressed the importance of collecting the testimonies of those who experienced the end of the Second World War, in order to provide insights into individuals' construction of meaning from the 'patchworks' (Gemengelagen) of their lives, and facilitating the construction of a history of the war's end 'in which some Germans were victims, some Germans were perpetrators, and some Germans were both'. 3 We might detect a certain similarity here with oral history methodologies of the kind put forward by Alessandro Portelli in his seminal work The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories (1991), which argues for the 'psychological truth' (and hence the inherent sociological and historical value) of narrations which may not be

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A Companion to Nazi Germany

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Sparta's German Children

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Go East, Old Man: The Ritual Spaces of SS Veterans’ Memory Work

Go East, Old Man: The Ritual Spaces of SS Veterans’ Memory Work

Surviving 'Stunde Null': Narrating the Fate of Nazi Elite-School Pupils during the Collapse of the Third Reich

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