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