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Mothers in the Fatherland
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics | Claudia Koonz
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From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitlers Womens 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 womens 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.
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Reading Harris while processing the books Hitler‘s People & Nazi Wives complicates for me the philosophical questions Harris is posing.All of the men explored & their wives did have a choice- yes, it was a life or death one , or at best a stripping of title, job, riches,etc.All were educated.Many of the wives did know what their husbands were doing, even the Final Solution. Historian & author Claudia Koonz included a chapter in her book about ⬇️

kspenmoll Women, known & unknown, who said no & the subsequent consequences they faced. Her scholarship is from 1986, & in the intervening decades interviews, diaries, journals, etc. have emerged to provided updated & more in depth research/ archives. Koonz was a professor at my college for a year or two. Her book is out of print. I am I saved it. I have inferred that her contention is that people indeed did have “free will” to make a choice. (edited) 2w
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