History of war as a private affair

Authors

  • Birthe Kundrus Universität Oldenburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/26

Keywords:

Biografie, Nationalsozialismus, Reproduktionsarbeit, Staat, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Vera Neumann’s ‘book examines the question, how German women and men dealt with traumatic experiences of World War II in the years of the “German Miracle”. It argues that the emotional and financial strainth due to the war were “privatized” in the families, where especially the women had to master the various problems. Its main sources are interviews, which were made during the eighties by the LUSIR-project.

Published

2000-11-01