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9780813522005

Frauen

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813522005

  • ISBN10:

    0813522005

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-03-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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Summary

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 her pursuit of such memories, was invited into the homes of these women. Because she is neither Jewish nor German, and because she speaks fluent colloquial German, many of the women she interviewed felt comfortable enough with her to unlock the past. What they have to say will surprise Americans, just as it surprised the women themselves. Not since Marcel Ophuls's controversial film The Sorrow and the Pity have we been on such intimate terms with "the enemy". In this case, the story is that of the women, those who did not make policy but who lived with its effects and witnessed its results. What they did and did not do is not just a reflection on them and their country - it also leads us to question what actions we might have taken in their place. The interviews do not allow for easy, smug answers.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
A Note about Language, Translation, and Truth
Idealism and Chasmp. 1
Motherhood Times Ten, and Food to Sparep. 17
A Matter of Fatep. 32
National Socialism and Christianityp. 54
Retrospective Guiltp. 68
The History Lessonp. 83
An "Exotic" Pastp. 99
A Cosmopolitan View of the Worldp. 116
Learning How Communism Worksp. 137
Solidarity and Survivalp. 155
"We Did Love Our Fuhrer, Really!"p. 172
Before, During, and After the Firebombingp. 185
The Ambivalence of Avoidancep. 197
From the Emperor to a Mud Holep. 214
Rural Perspectivesp. 231
A Modest Woman of the Resistancep. 245
The Schisms of a "Flakwaffenhelferin"p. 266
On Megalomaniacs and Little Peoplep. 284
Dissident Clergy and Dissident Actionsp. 299
A Job in Its Own Categoryp. 313
A Child Not of the Timesp. 342
"A Very Unpolitical Woman"p. 357
"I Was Alone. And I Had the Whole City Against Me."p. 366
"I Am Never Dishonest."p. 387
Life as a Cabaretp. 412
A Natural Matter of Friendshipp. 431
Talking about Silencep. 451
Conclusionp. 468
Glossaryp. 477
Acknowledgmentsp. 481
Indexp. 485
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