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Specifically, we argue that the mediatisation of war literature could profit from an increased engagement with feminist research, both within Critical Security/Critical Military Studies and within Science and Technology Studies that highlight the close connection between masculinity, technology and control. This paper focuses on a different strategy of visual meaning-making, namely, the publication of images on social media by armed forces themselves. Studies on the mediatisation of war point to attempts of governments to regulate the visual perspective of their involvements in armed conflict – the most notable example being the practice of ‘embedded reporting’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. The press played also a key role in disseminating this Kriegsbegeisterung by reports of the volunteers merrily going off to the front wearing their Tauglichkeits-Sträußerln – plant and floral sprays as trophies of their fitness to serve. However, this idea was most strongly felt in Germany, where the political unification of 1871 had not yet been complemented by the overall sense of national identity. Unification of the nation in spiritual solidarity dominated all the European nations leaning on an already constructed nationalism of the nineteenth century and the Napoleonic wars. Although the British politicians and public had opposed the war during the pre-war international tensions, the invasion of Belgium provided the pro-war political actors with a necessary discourse of preservation of the British way of life against German hegemony, which swung not only the cabinet but the vast majority of the country behind the war. In Germany it was greeted as the salvation of man and Europe from modern materialism and loss of spiritual values, as well as a way for the German nation to achieve their spiritual unity.

Publically, the war was almost universally accepted with every nation carrying its own version of nationalism into it.

The legend of unprecedented euphoria of patriotism and war-readiness, which swept across all the layers of society (and was immortalized by terms as Kriegsbegeisterung, Spirit of 1914 and Augusterlebnis), has during the years become an intricate part of the growing myth about the First World War. In the summer of 1914 most of Europe went to war.

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