Frauen : : German Women Recall the Third Reich / / Alison Owings.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Owings, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)

From Publishers Weekly A vivid picture of Germany under the Nazis emerges from this collection of unsettling interviews conducted by freelance TV writer Owings with 29 women of diverse backgrounds, both Aryan and Jewish. Among the women whose lives in Germany's war-torn homefront are chronicled are the widow of a resistance leader and the wife of an SS guard, who refers to her husband's work in the Ravensbrook and Buchenwald "manufacturing plants." Not only did Hitler attract the young but, according to one supporter, "he understood how to fascinate women." Some of these women claim that they privately protested mistreatment of Jews and prisoners and risked their lives to assist them. Only one non-Jewish woman, however, admits to "hearing" that Jews were gassed. From Library Journal Owings, a freelance television writer who is neither a German nor a Jew, has compiled and edited a groundbreaking set of oral histories. She interviews women from many spectrums of the Third Reich: Germans, Jews, individuals of "mixed" parentage, a countess, a camp guard, women who hid Jews, Nazi supporters, Communists, and other women who witnessed and participated in everyday and extraordinary events. Owings has tried, as much as possible, to "e her interviewees directly yet still manages to create an even and engaging text. This volume is an excellent companion to Claudia Koonz's Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, Family Life, and Nazi Ideology , 1919-1945 ( LJ 11/1/86). Highly recommended.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Prefazione -- Introduzione -- Una nota sulla lingua, la traduzione e la verità -- Dieci volte madre, e tanto cibo in più (Frau Wilhelmine Körner) -- Questione di destino (Frau Marianne Bauer) -- Colpa retrospettiva (Frau Liselotte Gebhardt) -- La lezione di storia (Frau Mathilde Mündt) -- Un passato «esotico» (Frau Verena Groth) -- Una visione cosmopolita del mondo (Frau Maria von Husen) -- Solidarietà e sopravvivenza (Frau Charlotte [Lotte] Müller) -- Prima, durante e dopo il bombardamento (Frau Ursula Maier) -- L'ambiguità dell'inazione (Frau Martha Häusler) -- Dall'imperatore a un buco fangoso (Frau Margarete [Greti] Sobiekowski) -- Una modesta donna della resistenza (Mrs. Freya von Moltke). -- Clero dissidente e azioni dissidenti (Frau Emmi Friedrich) -- Un lavoro di una categoria a parte (Frau Anna Fest) -- «Ero sola. E avevo contro la città intera» (Frau Doktor Margret Kresch) -- La vita come un cabaret (Frau Christine [Tini] Schneider) -- Una semplice questione d'amicizia (Frau Erna Wickerath) -- Parlando del silenzio (Ms. Rita Kuhn) -- Conclusione -- Glossario -- Ringraziamenti -- Indice