The focus of this book is the traumatized German war veteran. Using previously unexplored source material written by the psychologically scarred veterans themselves, this innovative work traces the ways in which some of the most vulnerable members of society, marginalized and persecuted as 'enemies of the nation', attempted to regain authority over their own minds and reclaim the authentic memory of the Great War. Book jacket.

Jason Crouthamel is assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University and the author of numerous articles on war neurosis and psychological trauma in interwar Germany.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Healing the Nation's Nerves: Imperial Germany at war	p. 15
The War Neurotics Return Home: Psychologically Disabled Veterans and Postwar Society, 1918-1920	p. 54
Neurosis and the Welfare State: The Rise and Fall of the National Pension Law of 1920	p. 89
'The Class Struggle Psychosis': Working-Class Politics and Psychological Trauma	p. 130
National Socialism and its Discontents: War Neurosis and Memory under Hitler	p. 157
Nazi Germany's Hidden Psychopaths: Case Studies of Mentally Disabled Veterans in the Third Reich	p. 189
Conclusion	p. 220
Notes	p. 228
Bibliography (including Glossary of Terms)	p. 262
Index	p. 274
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