The Degeneration of Warfare: Targeting Civilians and Remembering War
The expansion of military technologies, the intensification of racial and ideological hatreds, and the entanglement of war with revolution combined to produce forms of destruction of civilian life. Impunity to civilian suffering resulted in the degeneration of war, a process extending over the whole period since 1900.
However, shared experiences of vulnerability, violence, mass death and destruction have shaped new forms of commemoration and new moral languages through which we now understand the horrors of war.
Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Emeritus (Yale University)
Introduction:
Prof. Dr. Marie-Janine Calic (LMU)
This event is part of the Munich History Lecture series.
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