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FrauenAlison Owings

Frauen

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What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later? In Frauen we hear their voices - most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor. Hiding a Jewish friend. Witnessing "Kristallnacht." Witnessing the firebombing of Dresden. Shooting at Allied planes. Welcoming Allied troops. Being a prisoner. And being a guard. The women recall…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1995
    Rutgers University Press · 9780813522005
  • Other · English · 1995
    Penguin · 494 pages · 9780140237337
  • Other · English · 1993
    Rutgers University Press · 494 pages · 9780813519920
German Personal narrativesGermanyInterviewsWomenWorld War, 1939-1945Germany, history, 1933-1945Women, germanyDagelijks leven