Soldier in German Society

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This six-page undergraduate paper is a discussion of the role of the German soldier who was heavily influenced by ideology and propaganda. The writer discusses that the reality of war both on the battlefield and on submarines revealed to young soldiers how falsely they had been misled. The writer shows that they therefore rejected what they had been led to believe and other soldiers did so later, as did the society.

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"Ideology and propaganda played major roles as motivation in the German soldier's life. "German soldiers went off to war in 1939 without the enthusiasm that characterized 1914. They invaded Russia knowing that sacrifice, despair and death awaited them...sustained by a broad spectrum of values" (Neiberg 552). The soldiers firmly believed in those values, a fundamental one being that they were defending the Fatherland. These soldiers arrived at very different conclusions regarding war and the meaning of the military in two ways. One was their new understanding as a result of the injuries and casualties witnessed in battle, while the second resulted from examination of past experiences."

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