Without question, the East German National People\'s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage.
Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both befo.
Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the Military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent.
Without question, the East German National People\'s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage