Trauer ohne Gräber

Der Umgang mit gefallenen Wehrmachtssoldaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg – Zwischen persönlicher Trauer und politischer Instrumentalisierung

In this article for zeitgeschichte|online, I examine how fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were mourned and commemorated during the Second World War. I explore the tension between the private grief of families and the Nazi regime’s political instrumentalisation of soldiers’ deaths, focusing on death notifications, commemorative rituals, grave photographs, and the competing roles of the Nazi Party and the churches in shaping mourning and remembrance.

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