From Total to Minimal Transformation : German Oaths of Loyalty 1871-2014

• This chapter studies how three successive German societies constructed the boundary between peace and war: The German Empire (1871-1918), Nazi German (1933-45), and the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 –present). In each case the ritual of taking an oath of allegiance was central act, both collective and individual, in making an individual into a warrior. Oaths of allegiance have been a standard instrument in creating individual warriors and groups of warriors since at least antiquity. They are powerful tools of governmentality since they are means of controlling the conscience of a subject and linking personal salvation to compliance. In the Imperial and the Nazi period, taking the oath was considered a binding deed that transformed the individual and commanded his loyalty.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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Modernity

German History

Military Sociology

Rituals

Oaths

Bundeswehr

Wehrmacht

SS

Modernität

Bundeswehr

Wehrmacht

Deutsches Heer

SS

Fahneneid

Krigsvetenskap

Krigsvetenskap

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