The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood / Ursula Mahlendorf.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "An autobiographical account of the author's childhood and young adulthood in Nazi Germany, the postwar occupation, and her eventual relocation to the West. Contributes to current debates on history and memory, and on everyday and women's history from a feminist, psychoanalytically informed perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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- Front matter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One . My Family and the Nazis, 1929–1936
- Two . A Small Quarry Town, 1936–1938
- Three . Kristallnacht and the Beginning of World War II, 1938–1940
- Four . Today Germany Belongs to Us—Tomorrow, the Whole World, 1940–1941
- Five . You Are the Future Leadership of the Hitler Youth, 1941–1942
- Six . Between Conformity and Rebellion, 1942–1944
- Seven . In the Belly of the Beast: The Teacher Seminary, 1944–1945
- Eight . The Big Wheels Are Leaving for the West, January–March 1945
- Nine . We Don’t Kill, We Heal: The Russian Invasion, 1945
- Ten . My Hometown Becomes Polish, 1945–1946
- Eleven . Refugee in the Promised Land of the West: Return to School, 1946–1948
- Twelve . Finding an Intellectual Home: University, 1949–1954
- Epilogue
- Books Consulted
- Index
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- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-346) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
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- 9780271074924
- 0271074922
- 9780271036526
- 0271036524
- OCLC:
- 1253313480
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