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Private Life And Privacy In Nazi Germany

By Maiken Umbach , Andreas Wirsching , Elizabeth Harvey , Johannes Hürter

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
1108484980, 9781108484985, 1108754856, 9781108754859, 1108719031, 9781108719032, 1108620205, 9781108620208
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5389655 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
411\411
Time added
2020-07-10 15:00:02
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Description

Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. Meanwhile, in recent years historians of Nazism have been emphasising the degree to which Germans enthusiastically embraced notions of community. This volume sheds fresh light on these issues by focusing on the different ways in which non-Jewish Germans sought to uphold their privacy. It highlights the degree to which the regime permitted or even fostered such aspirations, and it offers some surprising conclusions about how private roles and private self-expression could be served by, and in turn serve, an alignment with the community. Furthermore, contributions on occupied Poland offer insights into the efforts by 'ethnic Germans' to defend their aspirations to privacy and by Jews to salvage the remnants of private life in the ghetto.

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