"No Victory without Death and Dying ". Fallen Soldiers of World War I and Cultures of Remembrance in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic.

""No Victory without Death and Dying ". Fallen Soldiers of World War I and Cultures of Remembrance in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic". It might be Weimar Republic's master-narrative: In the years 1918-1933, the remembrance of dead soldiers developed a suggestive inertia force which hasn't had any serious rivalry in terms of creating sense for a suffering community: Neither the young "Republic" nor the lost "Reich" succeed in generating scenarios of remembrance which were absorbed comparably. Using the example of Hamburg as the second largest city in German Reich, this text deals with functions, players and options of creating sense within covering a Weimar cult of the dead, which primarily was established within memorial days of "Volkstrauertag" and "Totensonntag". In this regard, the following main point is supposed to be designed: Implying a strong national-protestant sense, the Volkstrauertag was providing a basis for an upcoming "Heldenkult", which contemporarily was used by the National Socialists to create a powerful, effective propaganda.