Title: Private life and privacy in Nazi Germany /
Authors: Harvey, Elizabeth,; Hürter, Johannes,; Umbach, Maiken,; Wirsching, Andreas,
Year: 2019
Subjects: National socialism Social aspects Germany.; Interpersonal relations Germany History; Privacy Germany History; Interpersonal relations; Manners and customs; National socialism Social aspects; Privacy; Social conditions.; Alltag; Germany Social conditions; Germany Social life and customs; Germany; Deutschland
Abstract: Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. Meanwhile, in recent years historians of Nazism have been emphasising the degree to which Germans enthusiastically embraced notions of community. This volume sheds fresh light on these issues by focusing on the different ways in which non-Jewish Germans sought to uphold their privacy. It highlights the degree to which the regime permitted or even fostered such aspirations, and it offers some surprising conclusions about how private roles and private self-expression could be served by, and in turn serve, an alignment with the community. Furthermore, contributions on occupied Poland offer insights into the efforts by 'ethnic Germans' to defend their aspirations to privacy and by Jews to salvage the remnants of private life in the ghetto.
Contents: Introduction: Reconsidering private life under the Nazi dictatorship / Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Hurter, Maiken Umbach and Andreas Wirsching -- A particular kind of privacy : accessing 'the private' in national socialism / Janosch Steuwer -- Private lives, public faces : on the social self in Nazi Germany / Mary Fulbrook -- Private and public moral sentiments in Nazi Germany / Nicholas Stargardt -- (Re- )inventing the private under national socialism / Maiken Umbach -- Private life in the people's economy : spending and saving in Nazi Germany / Pamela E. Swett -- 'Hoist the flag!' : flags as a sign of political consensus and distance in the Nazi period / Karl Christian Fuhrer -- The vulnerable dwelling : local privacy before the courts / Annemone Christians -- Walther Von Hollander as an advice columnist on marriage and the family in the Third Reich / Lu Seegers -- Personal relationships between harmony and alienation : aspects of home leave during the Second World War / Christian Packheiser -- Working on the relationship : exchanging letters, goods, and photographs in wartime / Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Laura Fahnenbruck and Christine Hartig -- Love letters from front and home : a private space for intimacy in the Second World War? / Cornelie Usborne -- 'A birth is nothing out of the ordinary here ... ' : mothers, midwives and the private sphere in the 'Reichsgau Wartheland' 1939-1945 / Wiebke Lisner -- Transformations of the 'private' : proximity and distance in the spatial confinement of the Ghettos in occupied Poland 1939-1942 / Carlos A. Haas.