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Struggle for Identity and Meaning How Soldiers view the Home ront Societal Changes Reaction to Revolutions
How does Paul view the home front in All Quiet?
How is he treated on the home front?
France
England
War = Masculine Battle Front = Masculine Home front – only
women feminine Sexuality Dress Trivial
Holy Alliance/Three Emperors league Now 2 republics and a Communist state
Germany = Weimar Republic Capital = Weimar Liberals seen as week Treaty of Versailles Squeezed on Right and Left
Bad feelings in war years spill over, form dominant milieu after the war Freud: Civilization and
its Discontents Hemmingway George Orwell Aldous Huxley Albert Camus
Jazz Age
J.S. Mill Petitions Budding women’s
movement Reactions Women’s Social and
Political Union
Militancy increases Chaining selves to 10
Downing street gate Obstruction, Assemble Bomb? Hunger Strikes Cat and Mouse Act 1918 Representation of the
People Act 1928 Representation of the
People Act
We were told we were winning!
We are a stronger nation!
We were on their soil! We almost captured
Paris in 1918! We Beat Russia!
Myth that starts with and propagated by German military leaders
Homefront did not support us Strikes Revolution Liberals force us to
commit to peace Liberals = socialists =
Jews
Term taken by German right wing Paramilitary groups after WWI
Active in crushing revolutionary movements Bavarian Soviet
Republic Rosa Luxemburg
Used by SPD and right wing parties alike
Germans cannot pay Reparations Devastated
infrastructure French and Belgians
occupy Ruhr Allies need $ to pay
Americans Dawes Plan: American
banks loan $ to Germany to pay to allies to repay Americans
During war, prices 2x higher than prior to the war
Post war Germany – hyperinflation
Deutschmarks virtually worthless
Dawes plan stabilizes German economy in short term
Long term, dependant on foreign markets, especially American ones
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