Die Beiträge untersuchen die Aufarbeitungs- und Darstellungsformen von Gewalterfahrungen während und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg in der Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur und Kunst. In Frage gestellt wird die Homogenität in der Wahrnehmung und Aufarbeitung von Gewalt innerhalb verschiedener Gesellschaften und Epochen. Aus dem Inhalt: Bernd Hüppauf: Introduction. Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship (1-29). Violence and Modernity: Jay M. Winter: The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning (33-45); Cornelia Vismann: Starting form Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man's Land (46-64); Frank Trommler: The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War I to National Socialism (65-76); Wolfgang Michalka: From War Economy to "New Economy": World War I and the Conservative Debate About the 'Other' Modernity in Germany (77-95). Codes of War and Violence: Jeffrey Verhey: Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s (99-118); Karlheinz Barck: Blitzkrieg: "God Stinnes" or the Depoliticization of the Sublime (119-133); Andy Spencer: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing (134-147); Andrea Slane: Sexy Nazis and Daddy's Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s (148-173). Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare: Phillip D'Alton: Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity (227-238). Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare.