German atrocities, 1914 : a history of denial
Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, this book explores alleged German atrocities in Autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth
Print Book, English, ©2001
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, ©2001
xv, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300089752, 9780300107913, 0300089759, 0300107919
47181922
German invasion
The German army and the myth of the francs-tireurs, 1914
Memories, mentalities, and the German response to the "franc-tireur war"
Allied opinion and "German atrocities", August-October 1914
The battle of official reports and the tribunal of world opinion
Communities of truth and the "atrocities" question
Wartime culture and enemy atrocities
The moral reckoning: Versailles and the war crimes trials
German atrocities and the politics of memory
Conclusion and perspectives