Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics
Claudia Koonz
Language: English
Pages: 600
ISBN: 0312022565
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
American Library Association Notable Book
An Outstanding Book in Women's History at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
From the collapse of the Kaiser's regime to the destruction of Hitler in his bunker, Germany has been studied, explicated, and psychoanalyzed time and again. Yet there have been few detailed investigations into the historical and cultural roles played by German women in modern times. This important book, which Kirkus called "original and intriguing," corrects this imbalance.
All our might, are so often attacked and insulted and excluded. Sometimes one despairs, drained of courage and strength. But over and over the idea of our Führer and his inspiring example puts us back on the right course. Despite attacks, we will not allow ourselves to be pushed back. Dear Frau Seydel, we must remain brave and faithful. The truth will emerge victorious in the end.96 Other issues intruded into the affair. Seydel had recruited a personal following more loyal to her than to their.
More typically one individual would endorse certain Nazi programs while condemning others with equal vigor.63 "Terrible battles infect social harmony in even the tiniest hamlets," reported one village.64 "If Volks Chancellor Hitler knew about the confusion here, he would certainly feel distressed. We need mutual respect so badly."65 "A burning battle has broken out! Unbearable situation! Denunciations and oaths ... no hope for a solution here." In one village, where there had been barely enough.
Couldn't lie to them; I avoided at any price talking to those who were about to die: I couldn't stand it."73 In Israel, Eichmann confessed he had been so sensitive that he could not bear the sight of blood and had become sick at the sight of Jews stripped in a large room. Mobile gas vans drove up to the door and sent carbon monoxide into the room. Eichmann had to watch. "I cannot tell . . . I hardly looked. I could not; I could not; I had had enough. The shrieking, and, I was too upset, much too.
Organization of Women, 100. Michael Kater, "Frauen in der NS Bewegung," Vierteljahrsheft für Zeitgeschichte 31:202-241 (1983), and Kater, Party, 148-153. 46. K. Thomas, Women in Nazi Germany (London: Gollancz, 1943), 26. 47. Quoted in Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-1939, 2 vol. (New York: Fertig, 1969), I, 528. 48. Hermann Rauschning, Revolution of Nihilism. A Warning to the West, trans. E. W. Dickes (New York: Longmans, Green, 1939), 49. Fest, Hitler, 430. 49.
As in English. In this context, cf. the "Sleepwalker" speech. Hitler, speech on March 14, 1936, Munich. Ibid., 606. Bullock, Study in Tyranny, revised edition (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962), 279. 10. Domarus, Reden speech on June 27, 1937, Würzburg, I, 704; cf. also Hans Müller, "Der pseudoreligiöse Charakter der nationalsozialistischen Weltanschauung," Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Heft 6 (1961), 339, 349. 11. A. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 87. 12. Klaus Scholder, Die Kirchen und.