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World War One - Aftermath

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               Aftermath Film Clips

The Crown Prince in Exile (The Literary Digest, 1919)

In this interview the Kaiser's son and fellow exile, Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951, a.k.a. "The Butcher of Verdun"), catalogs his many discomforts as a "refugee" in Holland. At this point in his life, the former heir apparent was dictating his memoir and following closely the goings-on at Versailles.

The Spiritual Disillusion That Followed World War One (Current Opinion, 1919)

At the thirty-fifth annual Church Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1919), clergy members seemed to agree that Christian leaders were needlessly complicit concerning their support for the First World War and were guilty of substituting Christian principles for patriotism:

"Christianity has betrayed itself body and soul".

If you would like to read about the spirit of disillusion that permeated post-war literature, click here.

TOPIC INDEX: modernism and Society, Modern Culture, Popular Culture and Post-World War Society, Modernism and Disillusion, the Jazz Age the Era of Disillusion, Post-World War One Angst, Post-World War One Attitudes,

As Europe Saw Us (The Smart Set, 1921)

George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken surmised that as the Europeans bury their many dead among the damp, depressing ruins of World War One, America is neither admired or liked very much: "the English owe us money", "the Germans smart under their defeat", "the French lament that they are no longer able to rob and debauch our infantry"...

Compensation for Soldiers: How Much During the War? How Much After?
(The Congressional Digest, 1922)


While debating the 1922 issue of benefits to be paid to the Doughboys, this record of salary and the post-war benefits paid by the other combatant nations was distributed to members of Congress.

The Return of the Coldstream Guards (The New Red Cross Magazine, 1919)

The author of "Carry On", "The Glory of the Trenches" and "Living Bayonets" survived the Great War and wrote this two column piece on the emotional and triumphant homecoming of the Coldstream Guards to Buckingham Palace:

"To-day was a great day in London. The Guards' Division was inspected by the King at Buckingham Palace and had a triumphant march to welcome them home...East End and West End rubbed shoulders to-day and showed the same respect for each other that not so long ago they had shown in the trenches."

"The Coldstream Guards had gazed on death and the gray monotony of hell...Loos seemed a century away from us today; but ever since Loos these men had been there, tortured, dead with cold, mad with thirst, deafened by shells, seeing their comrades bodies smeared across the landscape. They had never expected that the ordeal would end."

Post-W.W. I Society and the New Spirit (The Independent , 1920)

In 1920 there were many articles celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of the Puritan's arrival on Cape Cod. This one writer decried the lack of enthusiasm that marked the modern age following the end of the Great War and stood in such contrast to the Pilgrim spirit. This writer was one of so many to realize that the legacy of the First World War was disillusionment and cynicism.

"Our stock of idealism has temporarily run low and a mood of cynicism has replaced the devoted enthusiasm of 1918...Without enthusiasm nothing worthwhile is ever done, and thus in the long run the idealist is the only practical man. The mood of cynicism, of indifference of 'don't care' is is the mood of death; it is literally the work of Mephistopheles, the Spirit of Denial."




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