Healing the nation's nerves : imperial Germany at home -- The war neurotics return home : psychologically disabled veterans and postwar society, 1918-1920 -- Neurosis and the welfare state : the rise and fall of the national pension law of 1920 -- The class struggle psychosis : working-class politics and psychological trauma -- National socialism and its discontents : war neurosis and memory under Hitler -- Nazi Germany's hidden psychopaths : case studies of mentally disabled veterans in the Third Reich.

"Under Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, the mentally disabled survivor of the trenches became a focus of debate between competing social and political groups, each attempting to construct their own versions of the national community and the memory of the war experience. Views on class, war, masculinity and social deviance were shaped and in some cases altered by the popularized debates involving these traumatizes members of society. Through the tortured words of these men and women, Jason Crouthamel reveals a current of protest against prevailing institutions and official memory -- and especially the Nazi celebration of war as the cornerstone of the 'healthy' male psyche -- that has remained hidden until now. He shows how these 'social outsiders' attempted to reform healthcare and reconstruct notions of 'comradeship' and 'manliness' in this highly militarized society"--Jacket.