Des sources pour une Plus Grande Guerre
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SOS (Save Our Souls)!
Apocalyptic representation and the normalization of violence in the memory of the Portuguese soldiers of the First World War
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Introduction
The “Danse Macabre” became the protagonist of a great catastrophe1. The natural progression of generations was suspended – more than 10 million men perished, most of them young – and with them, the possibility of keeping the narrative thread of life intact. The First World War profoundly affected politics, society and, above all, those who fought in it. It was not only a conflict of total breadth and depth2, but also a deeply intimate experience.
The First Republic, which ushered Portugal to war in 1917, mobilized more than ten thousand men, of which nearly seven thousand lost their lives3. The human loss, however, went far beyond the dead. In spite of the fact that no fighting occurred in metropolitan territory, the absence of consensus regarding intervention in the European front and the political instability did not facilitate the process of rebuilding the nation by capitalizing on the war effort. The First World War’s politics of memory during and after the conflict ...
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