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Body, place and nation: France and the invasion of 1914. J. Horne. The German invasion involved not just territory but also national identifies. These had been constructed in terms of body and place, as the state mobilized male citizens to defend the women, families and localities that constituted the nation. By a collective delusion, German soldiers imagined their bodies were menaced by French and Belgian civilians, in the form of guerrillas, or francs-tireurs. Brutal German reprisais were experienced as a violation of the bodies, homes, and cultural monuments of French (and Belgian) civilians. This experience in turn furnished a language and imagery of national martyrdom whose redemption lay in military victory. In this way, the "German...
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