Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich: Amazon.de: Alison Owings: Englische Bücher

Gebundene Ausgabe: 494 Seiten
Verlag: Rutgers University Press (Oktober 1993)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0813519926
ISBN-13: 978-0813519920
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,7 x 3,6 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.146.401 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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This collection of more than 50 oral histories will fascinate anyone who has wondered how ordinary people experienced life in Nazi Germany. There is the poignant love story of a German woman in love with a Jewish man (both survived the war), and there are the dishonest diatribes of an unrepentant Nazi collaborator. Underlying all the stories is an identical subtext: Who is to blame and how could it happen? Most of these women were young at the time of the Third Reich; they recall being absorbed in their own lives and only marginally aware of and responsible for the political realities of their time. Some of them were compassionate, but circumstances were difficult. Frau Wilhelmine Haferkamp remembers that the Nazi Party threatened to expel her husband after she insisted on feeding slave laborers and prisoners of war outside her house. Frau Haferkamp persisted in making her milk soup. The author is careful not to let intimacy blind her or the reader to the real role of these women. She walks a fine line between getting inside their heads and remaining objective. A valuable work of reportage. Anne Gendler

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Powerful testimony from 29 German women survivors of the Third Reich that provides not only a stunning portrait of life on the home front but also insights into a society that spawned both Hitler and the Holocaust. Wanting to find out why German women ``did not behave like the humane peacemakers, the nurturers that people believe women really are, [and] stop the Nazis,'' Owings, a TV news-writer based in California, visited and revisited her subjects over a period of years, usually in their homes, where she was cordially received. Those interviewed include a former concentration-camp guard; the widow of a Resistance hero; a lifelong Communist residing in what was then East Germany; and an unrepentant Nazi schoolteacher. Also offering testimony are Lotte Muller, a plumber, who was sent to Ravensbruck--the notorious women's camp--because of her Communist connections; former countess Maria von Lingen, who always thought of herself as more a European than a German; Margret Blersch, a physician who helped save people the ``Nazis would have murdered;'' and Erna Dubnak, a low-paid worker who hid her ``dear friend'' Hilda Naumann, a Jew, throughout the war. During the war, most of the women endured great hardships as bombing raids intensified, food grew scarce, and the Russians advanced. The collapse of the German economy and the climate of fear that the Nazis created initially ensured the support of many of Owens's subjects--but according to Freya von Moltke, whose husband was executed by the Nazis, even those who didn't support Hitler carry a burden of guilt: ``People who lived through the Nazi time, and who still live, who did not lose their lives because they were opposed, all had to make compromises.'' Oral history at its best, and a much-needed record of WW II German women, who ``faced the day-to-day consequences of the Third Reich with impudence or despair, hesitation or hope, with shame, and with blinders.'' (First printing of 7,500) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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frauen 19. Mai 2000

Von rita wasserman

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i am german, 45 years of age, living in the u.s. since 1991. i grew up with the so-called guilt and shame of the post-war generation who was trying to understand. this book is so incredible. you do not need to study history. all answers, if there is ever any good ones, are in this book. it reflects the times the way i read about it and learned about it from personal encounters. it is a very brave, very well researched, brutally honest book. it helped me a lot to understand better. i know some germans' answers including my parents' who are now in their seventies. i cannot imagine americans being able to understand the stories of the women that were interviewed. this book should have the highest ratings. live is too good and sophisticated in the u.s. especially now half a century after the war. people here have no imagination of how the mindset would have been in a narrow minded society at that time. i feel like i owe alison owings for her phantastic idea and research which brought about a better understanding for me. i am telling all my german friends but cannot find this book translated into german. i am sure germans would be anxious to read this book.

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Flawed, but not fatally 12. April 2000

Von "toonrmeusa"

Owlings' book is a thought-provoking, and not infrequently tragic, account of Nazi era Germany as seen from an often unrepresented viewpoint. Yes, her interviewing may lack some subtlety, and yes, she may not have the firmest grasp on modern German history. However, her na�vety may have allowed her to ask the questions, and have them answered, that an interviewer more concerned with propriety would have avoided.

Two subjects I wish she had spent more time developing in her interviews are the question of the "conquests" of the Allied occupying forces in their respective zones, and the forced migrations westward from East Prussia, and later, East Germany.

Overall, especially for somebody interested in the events of the 1930s and 1940s in Germany, this book provides a decent account to the non-historian.

interested reader 21. Januar 2000

Von Ein Kunde

Owing's book is good but could be improved. For one, she focuses too much attention on the Jewish question. I think she should have asked questions about certain subjects, such as family/marriage incentives, Nazi propaganda to raise the birthrate and female employment patterns. The author failed to get these questions answered when she had the chance.