The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War

[...]living within a pacifist Mennonite community dining the Cold War, Werner remembered himself in that earlier time as an ordinary soldier, carefully curating Ins actions to suggest a modest role in events and to highlight acts of compassion. Tins fact is most apparent in the lack of reference to...

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Published in:Canadian Slavonic Papers 2014, Vol.56 (1/2), p.197-198
Main Author: Baran, Emily B.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Book Reviews / Comptes rendus
Minority & ethnic groups
Studies
War
World War II
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Summary:[...]living within a pacifist Mennonite community dining the Cold War, Werner remembered himself in that earlier time as an ordinary soldier, carefully curating Ins actions to suggest a modest role in events and to highlight acts of compassion. Tins fact is most apparent in the lack of reference to recent scholarship about how ethnic minorities, including Soviet Germans, navigated the interwar and wartime experiences by becoming "amphibians" or "chameleons," shedding and gaming new identities in order to adapt to drastically and often suddenly changing circumstances.
ISSN:0008-5006
2375-2475