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Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by [Owings, Alison]

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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 their own and others' enthusiasm, doubt, fear, fury, cowardice, guilt, and anguish.

Alison Owings, in her pursuit of such memories, was invited into the homes of these women. Because she is neither Jewish nor German, and because she speaks fluent colloquial German, many of the women she interviewed felt comfortable enough with her to unlock the past. What they have to say will surprise Americans, just as they surprised the women themselves.

Not since Marcel Ophuls's controversial film The Sorrow and the Pity have we been on such intimate terms with "the enemy." In this case, the story is that of the women, those who did not make policy but were forced to participate in its effects and to witness its results. What they did and did not do is not just a reflection on them and their country––it also leads us to question what actions we might have taken in their place. The interviews do not allow for easy, smug answers.

Length: 536 pages

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A vivid picture of Germany under the Nazis emerges from this collection of unsettling interviews conducted by freelance TV writer Owings with 29 women of diverse backgrounds, both Aryan and Jewish. Among the women whose lives in Germany's war-torn homefront are chronicled are the widow of a resistance leader and the wife of an SS guard, who refers to her husband's work in the Ravensbrook and Buchenwald "manufacturing plants." Not only did Hitler attract the young but, according to one supporter, "he understood how to fascinate women." Some of these women claim that they privately protested mistreatment of Jews and prisoners and risked their lives to assist them. Only one non-Jewish woman, however, admits to "hearing" that Jews were gassed.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Owings, a freelance television writer who is neither a German nor a Jew, has compiled and edited a groundbreaking set of oral histories. She interviews women from many spectrums of the Third Reich: Germans, Jews, individuals of "mixed" parentage, a countess, a camp guard, women who hid Jews, Nazi supporters, Communists, and other women who witnessed and participated in everyday and extraordinary events. Owings has tried, as much as possible, to quote her interviewees directly yet still manages to create an even and engaging text. This volume is an excellent companion to Claudia Koonz's Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, Family Life, and Nazi Ideology , 1919-1945 ( LJ 11/1/86). Highly recommended.
- Jenny Presnell, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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File Size: 5389 KB
Print Length: 536 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (February 1, 1995)
Publication Date: April 20, 1993
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B000WNKV54
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Disinterested Reviewer

Talented Author gets to the truth.

November 1, 2014

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It is the author's talent, in both writing and interviewing, that makes these stories come alive. She dealt with subjects of whom conflicting about Hitler and the Third Reich had to be skillfully handled. Absent is an over-moralizing attitude from the author, including refraining from the obvious condemnation. She allows us to sit with these mostly elderly women and feel the uncomfortable nature of the questions, and enter into this generation's isolation from their own family, something that struck me repeatedly.

She gave voice, albeit an uneasy voice, in the way that history should speak to us. She did not interpret for us, but let the subject of history speak.
Well done!

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Mini J

Impressive and eye opening book

December 27, 2017

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Interviews of several women who were young women during the 3rd Reich. The author interviewed the same women several times over a number of years. Their experiences, attitudes, and opinions were eye opening, shocking, sad, frightening. Made me appreciate and thank God that we never had foreign tanks on our soil. Made me realize the need for our borders to be protected.

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Bev Thompson

A Real Eye-Opener!

February 17, 2014

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It's very interesting to get from those who lived through the Third Reich exactly what it was like. Because of "high German" language, some of the translation is hard to understand (because it doesn't translate well), but we can definitely get the gist of it. Amazing that so many are in such denial, while others can't face it -- even today. The guilt is there, in some cases overpowering. If you are a WWII history buff, this is definitely a must-read. However, it can be a bit repetitious, each chapter a different Frau, and the book is thick, replete with many Fraus.

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Tracyelln

Most interesting book!

September 29, 2015

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I was not disappointed in the least! Every chapter is of a different woman and her thoughts and impressions of the third Reich! This book addressed many unanswered questions of what the woman thought during and after the Third Reich!

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Del Hedges

Every WW2 history buff should read this! I got ...

February 3, 2018

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Every WW2 history buff should read this! I got more understanding of Germans and their reality from the life stories of these women than from any other source!

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just got started. author's writing style is rather awkward ...

April 25, 2017

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just got started. author's writing style is rather awkward to read; i will get used to it i'm sure. nothing really surprising so far, no revelations from anyone so it remains to be seen whether it will "explain" any behavior during Nazi rule/occupation of homeland.

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Ann Allen

Marvelous writing

November 5, 2006

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Frauen offers good insight into the lives of German women during the Third Reich. If some questions are left unanswered, it can be attributed to the women interviewed and not to the author, who had done her homework well and asked direct questions. Having lived in postwar Germany and received the same evasive answers, I was able to nod a hearty Ja to her frustrations. The only "fault" I found with the book, and it may not have been a grave one, was that most of the women came from eastern Germany. I longed to hear from more western Germans. All in all, however, this is an excellent book, one that should sound some warnings to present day readers.

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Darwin Eireine

Fast delivery, Accurate description,

July 27, 2016

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Christi

Interesting perspectives

At times it was difficult to read simply because of the translation factor. Although in English, statements made by the women interviewed may have lost something in translation.Read more

As many of the reviewers mention, this is a book that stays with the reader. I consider it one of those histories that causes a paradigm shift.Read more

Published on December 18, 2015

Jess Page

If you have ever wondered what is was really like in Germany during the third reich then you must ...

If you have ever wondered what is was really like in Germany during the third reich then you must read these stories. I couldn't put it down

Published on October 24, 2014

martina sander

It is fascinating to hear the actual voices of women ...

It is fascinating to hear the actual voices of women from all classes tell us how they reacted to and were affected by the NAZI regime.Read more

Published on September 15, 2014

Words And Music

A Book Which Bears Repeated Readings

I re-read this book every few years, and always discover subtleties and undercurrents which escaped me before. This is a good thing.Read more

Published on April 11, 2014

Elyse M.

Good book

Amazing book containing multiple oral histories of real women who lived through such a chaotic and deadly time.Read more

Published on April 2, 2014

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