Anna Haag and her secret diary of the Second World War : a democratic German feminist's response to the catastrophe of National Socialism /
"How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888-1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2015]
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| Series: | Women in German literature ;
v. 20. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: fragments of history in the raw
- Paradigms of creativity and marriage with an educational mission
- Fighting for the Fatherland: sacrifice, resilience and loyalty betrayed
- Republican values, female agency and the international peace campaign
- Responses to Hitler's seizure of power: a purely masculine affair?
- The people's war: diarists, demagogues, spin-doctors, popular broadcasters and secret listeners
- False ideals: master race, religious mission, faith in the Führer, tainted healthcare and perverted justice
- Avalanche: super-criminals, yellow stars, deportations, plunder, slaughter, and the spectre of poison gas
- Echoes of Stalingrad and un-German attitudes: women's responses to total war
- Cities razed to the ground and calls for resistance: can you kill Hitler with a cooking spoon?
- Matrix of democracy: the diarist's political vision
- Epilogue: the legacy of a Swabian internationalist
- Chronology of Anna Haag's career
- Bibliography of her writings
- Index of personal names.