Mothers in the fatherland

By Claudia Koonz

Subjects: Femmes - Allemagne - Histoire - 20e siècle, Famille, Drittes Reich, Women, germany, Women, Femmes, Conditions sociales, Family, germany, Bevölkerungspolitik, Famille - Allemagne - Histoire - 20e siècle, Nationalsozialismus, Nazisme, Conditions économiques, Families, Nazisme et femmes, Women's Studies, Nationaal-socialisme, Germany, social conditions, Family, Histoire, Vrouwen, Sociale situatie, Gezin, BMBF-Statusseminar gnd, Politisches Verhalten, Frau, Faschismus, National Socialism, Familles, Frauen, SOCIAL SCIENCE, National socialism, Social conditions, National socialism and women, History, Deutschland (bis 1945)

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.