Author

Publication

1987 - St. Martins Press, New York, United States

Language

English

Word Count

139,000 words, Guess

Page Count

556 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780312022563
  • Open LibraryOL22581655M

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1623.K66

Description

In the Nazi state, women had received the opportunity to create the largest women's organization in history, with the blessings of the blatantly male-chauvinist Nazi Party. Here was the nineteenth-century feminists' vision of the future in nightmare form. In this book I would bring to light the contribution to evil made by Scholtz-Klink and other women leaders, find out what they had done, what they believed they were doing, and why. I would ask how "normal" people (women, in this case) brought Nazi beliefs home in everyday thought and action. Above all, I would record the history of average people without normalizing life in Nazi society. Women's history during the Third Reich lacks the extravagant insanity of Hitler's megalomania; often it is ordinary. But there, at the grassroots of daily life, in a social world populated by women, we begin to discover how war and genocide happened by asking who made it happen. - Preface.

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Other Editions

  • Mothers in the fatherland: women, the family and nazi politicsSt. Martins Press1987-01-01
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