Frontmatter -- Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship / HÜPPAUF, BERND -- Violence and Modernity -- The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning / WINTER, J. M. -- Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man's Land / VISMANN, CORNELIA -- The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism / TROMMLER, FRANK -- From War Economy to "New Economy": World War I and the Conservative Debate about the 'other' Modernity in Germany / MICHALKA, WOLFGANG -- Codes of War and Violence -- Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s / VERHEY, JEFFREY -- Blitzkrieg: "God Stinnes" or the Depoliticization of the Sublime / BARCK, KARLHEINZ -- The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing / SPENCER, ANDY -- Sexy Nazis and Daddy's Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s / SLANE, ANDREA -- Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare -- Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War / ECKART, WOLFGANG U. -- The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War / DURING, LISABETH -- Benn's Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn's Essays / MAZUR OCKENFUSS,