Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics - Hardcover

Koonz, Claudia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415632722 ISBN 13: 9780415632720

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review

Reviews from the original edition:

‘A splendidly thorough analysis (thought it often reads like a story) of an element of Nazism which has rarely been properly examined.’ Independent

‘A fascinating and intensely personal new study of women in Nazi Germany...a crucial insight into the role of women in that ruthless anti-feminist regime.’ Guardian

‘The first thorough treatment of women’s collaboration in the madness and evil of Adolf Hitler’s Germany...powerful, reflective and cathartic.’ Chicago Tribune

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415632722
• ISBN 13: 9780415632720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600