Jews, Germans and Allies Close Encounters in Occupied Germany

Name: Jews, Germans and Allies Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
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ISBN: 9780691143170

ISBN-10: 069114317X

ISBN-13: 9780691143170

Edition: 2009

Authors: Atina Grossmann

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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany.Jews, Germans, and Alliesdraws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived through postwar reconstruction to trace the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives. In gripping and unforgettable detail, Atina Grossmann describes Berlin in the days following Germany's surrender--the mass rape of German women by the Red Army, the liberated slave laborers and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: Where is Feldafing?


Abbreviations


Introduction: Entangled Histories and Close Encounters



"Poor Germany": Berlin and the Occupation



Gendered Defeat: Rape, Motherhood, and Fraternization



"The survivors were few and the dead were many": Jews in Occupied Berlin



The Saved and Saving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in the American Zone



Mir Zaynen Do: Sex, Work, and the DP Baby Boom



Conclusion: The "Interregnum" Ends


Abbreviations in Notes


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index