Geschichte der deutschen Literatur Bd. 10: Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur 1918 bis 1933

European Literatures of Military Occupation

“…This highly successful politicization of national memory after the First World War was based on the idea that patriotic principles found expression not only by having participated in the war itself but by continuing the armed struggle even through defeat and occupation, always against the backdrop of treaties that were found unacceptable and the democratic republic that had to negotiate them. Most Weimar-era texts, whether fiction or non-fiction, participate directly in this politics of memory (Kiesel 2017). They radicalize the nationalist conception of history that had dominated the German Empire.…”