Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics

by Claudia Koonz

Overview

From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality, of compromise and courage, of submission and survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136213793
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2013
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
Sales rank:	793,926
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Claudia Koonz

Table of Contents

Chapter 01 Introduction: Love and order in the Third Reich; Chapter 02 Weimar Emancipation; Chapter 03 Nazi Women and their Freedom Movement; Chapter 04 Liberation and Depression; Chapter 05 Old-Timers in the New State; Chapter 06 The Second Sex in the Third Reich; Chapter 07 Protestant Women for Fatherland and Führer; Chapter 08 Catholic Women Between Pope and Führer; Chapter 09 Courage and Choice: Women who said no; Chapter 10 Jewish Women Between Survival and Death; Chapter 11 Consequences: Women, Nazis, and Moral Choice;

Editorial Reviews

Reviews from the original edition:

'A splendidly thorough analysis (thought it often reads like a story) of an element of Nazism which has rarely been properly examined.' Independent

'A fascinating and intensely personal new study of women in Nazi Germany...a crucial insight into the role of women in that ruthless anti-feminist regime.' Guardian

'The first thorough treatment of women's collaboration in the madness and evil of Adolf Hitler's Germany...powerful, reflective and cathartic.' Chicago Tribune

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