39866 Emotions and Violence at the Homefront in Imperial Germany in the First World War

This seminar uses an approach to analyse the impact of emotions as a cause for violent assaults at the home front in Germany in the First World War. Inhabitants of the German Empire chased car drivers and national minorities, they were afraid of immigrants and hunted alleged agents of enemy armies. The physical violence of civilians against civilians reveals a wide-reaching change of behaviour; it also extended the scope of violent actions during the First World War and created a theatre of hostilities that is often neglected by historians.