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Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war. Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents--and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism.

Soldiers --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Intellectuals --- Atrocities. --- Campaigns --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Jarausch, Konrad, --- Adolf Hitler. --- Dulag. --- Germans. --- Jews. --- Konrad Jarausch. --- National Socialism. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazis. --- Nazism. --- Poland. --- Poles. --- Protestant Church. --- Protestant pedagogy. --- Third Reich. --- USSR. --- World War II. --- army training. --- children. --- complicity. --- education. --- genocide. --- humanism. --- humanity. --- imperialism. --- letters. --- nationalism. --- new recruits. --- prisoner of war. --- transnational humanity.

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Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets-soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.

Turks --- Soldiers --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Turkish people --- Ethnology --- Turkic peoples --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Campaigns --- Turjman, Ihsan Hasan, --- Tarjumān, Iḥsān Ḥasan, --- Turkey. --- History --- Jerusalem --- Ierusalim --- Иерусалим --- Yerushalayim --- Jeruzalem --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Kuds --- Kouds --- Erusaghēm --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Jeruzsálem --- Jerusalem (Israel) --- Jerusalem (Palestine) --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Ierousalēm --- Gerusalemme --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Qods (Jerusalem) --- ירושלים --- القدس --- al-Quds --- قدس --- Jerusalén --- Social conditions --- History, Military --- arab soldier. --- arab world. --- arab. --- autobiography. --- biography. --- bombs. --- conscripted soldier. --- diary. --- empire. --- gender. --- history. --- ihsan hasan al turjman. --- imperialism. --- jerusalem. --- journal. --- mashriq. --- memoir. --- middle east. --- military service. --- military. --- mongolia. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- ottoman empire. --- ottoman soldier. --- palestine. --- palestinian history. --- palestinian mandate. --- partition. --- politics. --- pow camp. --- prisoner of war. --- regional politics. --- russia. --- seige. --- siberia. --- soldier. --- suez. --- turkey. --- veteran. --- war. --- world war one. --- ww1.