Remembering, Reflecting, Reckoning : German Women and the Long Shadow of National Socialism
The present moment in Germany is marked by efforts to reckon with the Nazi past on both public and private levels. The research presented here, based on interviews with twenty-nine non-Jewish German women, focuses on mother-daughter transmission of memory about life in the Third Reich. It reveals th...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The Oral History Review. in. - Taylor & Francis, Ltd.. - 45(2018), 1, Seite 101-126 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The Oral History Review. in |
| Zusammenfassung: | The present moment in Germany is marked by efforts to reckon with the Nazi past on both public and private levels. The research presented here, based on interviews with twenty-nine non-Jewish German women, focuses on mother-daughter transmission of memory about life in the Third Reich. It reveals that in this cohort a fruitful confrontation with their family’s role in Hitler’s Germany between mothers and daughters is the exception rather than the norm. The article details the various reasons why most members of the daughter cohort did not take their mothers seriously enough as agents of their own destiny to engage them in difficult conversations about their lives under National Socialism. |
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| ISSN: | 15338592 |