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Mothers in the Fatherland

Women, the Family and Nazi Politics

by Claudia Koonz · 2013

ISBN: 1136213791 9781136213793

Category: History / Social History

Page count: 600

<p>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.</p>