
Mothers in the Fatherland
Claudia Koonz
#2200 of 3,809 books · #737 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1987).
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. 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.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN-13
- 9781136213809
- Genre
- Topics
- Women in Nazi GermanyGender roles under fascismNazi Germany social history
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1987)
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