Frauen German Women Recall the Third Reich

Name: Frauen German Women Recall the Third Reich
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ISBN: 9780813522005

ISBN-10: 0813522005

ISBN-13: 9780813522005

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alison Owings

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What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later? In Frauen we hear their voices - most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor. Hiding a Jewish friend. Witnessing "Kristallnacht". Witnessing the firebombing of Dresden. Shooting at Allied planes. Welcoming Allied troops. Being a prisoner. And being a guard. The women recall their own and others' enthusiasm, doubt, fear, fury, cowardice, guilt, and anguish. Alison Owings, in…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


A Note about Language, Translation, and Truth


Idealism and Chasm



Motherhood Times Ten, and Food to Spare



A Matter of Fate



National Socialism and Christianity



Retrospective Guilt



The History Lesson



An "Exotic" Past



A Cosmopolitan View of the World



Learning How Communism Works



Solidarity and Survival



"We Did Love Our Fuhrer, Really!"



Before, During, and After the Firebombing



The Ambivalence of Avoidance



From the Emperor to a Mud Hole



Rural Perspectives



A Modest Woman of the Resistance



The Schisms of a "Flakwaffenhelferin"



On Megalomaniacs and Little People



Dissident Clergy and Dissident Actions



A Job in Its Own Category



A Child Not of the Times



"A Very Unpolitical Woman"



"I Was Alone. And I Had the Whole City Against Me."



"I Am Never Dishonest."



Life as a Cabaret



A Natural Matter of Friendship



Talking about Silence



Conclusion


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Index