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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis | |
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| The position of women after the First World War | |
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| Nazism and the 'women question' in the 1920s | |
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| The impact of the economic depression | |
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| The Nazi seizure of power | |
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| The incorporation of women into the Nazi state | |
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| The DFW and the women's 'work of the nation' | |
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| Nazi propaganda and the ideal Nazi woman | |
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| Strength through joy | |
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| The policing of female sexuality and the reproductive sphere | |
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| The impact of Nazi racial policies | |
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| Nazi policies towards the Jews | |
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| 'Mixed' marriages and 'mixed' partnerships | |
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| The 'hereditary ill', 'asocials' and others 'unworthy of life' | |
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| Women as agents of Nazi racial policy | |
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| Women and work | |
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| Women and the labour market in the 1930s | |
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| Women and the wartime labour force | |
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| Jewish women and forced labour | |
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| Civilian deportees, prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates | |
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| Education, youth, opportunity | |
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| Education and opportunity | |
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| The BDM - League of German Maidens | |
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| Labour service schemes | |
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| German youth at war, 1939-1945 | |
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| Opposition and resistance | |
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| Types of opposition and resistance | |
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| Organised resistance | |
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| Opposition and non-conformity in everyday life | |
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| German-Jewish women in hiding and in the concentration camps | |
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| From total war to defeat and military occupation | |
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| War on the home front: rationing and its impact | |
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| Marriage, divorce and sexual relations at time of war | |
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| Denunciations and their consequences | |
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| The bombing of German towns | |
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| The last weeks of the war and the first days of peace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |