« Ce sont les enfants qui ont vécu la guerre comme un grand jeu… » (Sebastian Haffner). Subjectivités et masculinités-en-devenir en 1918
Résumé
For a long time, wars were considered to be a matter for men. A new historiography about the world wars, however, favouring the study of “war cultures”, broke down barriers that seemed hermetic: “front”/“rear”, men/women, victors/vanquished, and generations. The war had a profound impact on adolescent subjectivities, and still had consequences in Berlin during the November 1918 revolution. From a gender and cultural history perspective, it is relevant to look at the emotional continuities around the revolution. The article’s aim is to show how the younger generation’s “everyday” was affected (and in particular regarding everyday violence). This generation sometimes experienced the revolution as a non-event, as the continuation of wartime society “by other means”.