Alison Owings Frauen: German Women Recall The Third Reich

During World War II, Jews suffered many casualties and struggled for survival. This was caused by concentration camps; the reasoning for Jews to be taken seemed unexplainable in their eyes. To be a Jew in World war II, in my opinion, this was the worst thing that could be done as punishment. Sarah in Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay experienced the sensation of going through these struggles. She suffered and sacrificed her life, knowing that she could’ve died. The traumatic events displayed in Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay portray the real situations and sacrifices people were involved in during World War II.

In the article Mother of the Volk: The Image of Women in Nazi Ideology by Leila J. Rupp the author shows us the world of how Nazi saw how their women, and how they should be and how they really were. Rupp points out the fact that Hitler wished for women to go back to the homes a care for their families, but how Nazi also wish to show that Nazi women were far superior to other women of the world. She will also indicate that Nazi ideology of a women will change with the changing needs of their women. Rupp says in the beginning of the article that women in Nazi history have been ignored. Saying that because Hitler said that they should return to the home and care for families it is to easily believed.

Erika Riemann was a teenager living in East Germany at the end of World War II. Her oral testimony describes her experiences as a political prisoner during the cold war. She was arrested in 1945 for drawing a bow on a portrait of Stalin that hung in her school classroom. At the time of her arrest she was only 14 years old.

The book “Sophie Scholl and the White Rose” by Annette Dumbach is a book about resistance, Nazism and the path to freedom under Hitler’s rein. In this story the main characters Sophie and Hans Scholl play a part in the path towards resistance during Hitler’s power.

People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,

The Reading A Woman in Berlin details the experiences of a women during the time when Russia occupied Berlin, Germany. While reading about her experience we are able to understand many things about Russia occupation in Berlin, Germany. Her diary expresses the problems women faced in regards to the Russian soldiers, the affect the war played on the Germans in Berlin, and how the German people dealt with the Russia soldiers.

Hitler used many tactics to control German society during the Nazi era; his outlook on how women should act is embodied in the Speech to the National Socialist Women’s Association. The speech was given by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the organization’s leader, with the intent to convince women to take their place in Hitler’s Nazi movement. The emphasis on women’s natural roles in the home, as mothers and wives, and the discouragement of women’s right are manifested in the persuasive language of national identity and involvement. Hitler uses Scholtz-Klink to fight for the minds of German women in a speech that asks for feminist ideals to be cast aside all for the good of the country.

In the book Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings, we are provided with plenty of women who describe their lives before, during and after Hitler received power. This book provides us with different views of the time era and as well as how the impact of Hitler affected every woman differently through social class, age, marital status and etc. This paper will explore the lives of three German women who seem to be in the Grey area during the over control of Hitler but mostly with the killings of the Jews. This paper will further explore the complicity and the different levels of resistance that these three women had during this time era which is 1933-1945. The three women that will be discussed in this paper are Margarete (Margrit) Fischer, Ellen Frey, and Christine (Tini) Weihs. When looking into the lives of all three women these women it seems as though women didn’t have much of a responsibility for the events that were happening around them. Although these women seemed to be complaint to a certain degree with the events there were going on around them. These women would have been complaint due to the fear of what happened to Germans when they stood against the events that took part.

“Silence. These were the habits that I wore as I lived what survivors of the Holocaust now call a U-boat, a Jewish fugitive from the Nazi death machine, hiding right in heat of the Third Reich.” With these words, Edith Hahn lays down the foundation for her captivating memoir. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1914, Edith Hahn was a Jewish girl who strived to go further in the education and not become a housewife. Despite her hopes and dreams, at the age of 27, and only one test away from achieving her law degree, Edith was turned away from her University due to the rules set up by Hitler and the Reich during the Anschluß. As they are witnessing the Nazi rise to power, Edith's sibling, all but her, leave. One sister takes refuge in Israel, and her brother in England. From then on, Edith and her mother were stripped of their home and forced to live in the slowly degrading conditions of the Jewish ghetto.

As the most famous Holocaust theme author, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel’s painful memoir novel, Night, records his personal nightmares as a young Jew during the World War II and impacts today’s world profoundly. The terrible living condition in the ghetto, the numb of the prisoned Jews to send the little body of Jewish children into the cremation chimney, the diminishing faith of Elie to God, the little hope of surviving and so on, too many such horrible scenes mingle in every reader’s mind and meanwhile arise a lot of questions. Aren’t those German soldier human beings? Why the SS and Gestapo have not any mercy to those normal elegant Jews, including those lovely young girls and cute children? Why most of the Aryan people just stand by during that time but not shelter the Jews? How can the people in a democratic German make their collective decisions to support the dictator Hitler? What’s wrong with that generation of people living in that land? Can we prevent such genocide happen again in today’s world?

“Inge Auerbacher was born December 31, 1934, in Kippenheim, Germany. Her parents were Berthold and Regena Auerbacher” (Children During the Holocaust). “Her father was a textile merchant and was also a German soldier during WWI” (Inge Auerbacher). Her life was quite peaceful until one night, November 9, 1938, when every single window in her house was broken. Her Mother, Grandmother, and herself all had to hide in their backyard, but her Father and Grandfather got brought to Dachau Concentration Camp. Once they got released, Inge’s family then moved in with their grandparents. Sadly, in 1942, there would be no way to avoid

The perpetrators of the Holocaust are often generalized as direct products of ideological indoctrination into a stream of omnipresent German culture that is assumed to be supremely sadistic and motivated only by “evil” factors. However, it is impossible to label all of the perpetrators with one trait or name, when the Holocaust was the multi-causal. This means that there were several types of perpetrators, and therefor the Holocaust was the result of combined efforts by a diverse group, each with their own reasons for participating and fulfilling various roles throughout different stages of the time period. Mary Fulbrook illustrates the example of landrat Udo Klausa in her book A Small Town Near Auschwitz, which shows that many individuals were simply fulfilling responsibilities for their careers, and were “blind” to the severity and impact of their own role as perpetrators. In remembering these people, it is easy to forget that they were civilians first and foremost. Looking to Katharina von Kellenbach’s Mark of Cain, there is further evidence that a lack of transparency was a severe issue in the Hitler administration, trickling

In WWII, Human Rights were the last thing on the mind of Hitler and the Nazis’. The Nazis had a strong hatred for Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Jews, so much so that they felt entitled to abuse and treat them inhumanly. Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to act against those who were minimizing human

Women in Nazi Germany is based upon the Nazi regime’s attitudes, policies, and ideologies concerning the role of women in the public and private sphere. Stephenson argues that the women of Nazi Germany should be studied in depth, including the support they gave to the regime, the treatment they received, and the different roles they played. However, she argues they should not be studied separately from the other happenings at the time, but instead, they should be incorporated into the history just as the men are. This book reviews their roles, functions, and how they were controlled by the Nazi leadership, and also their lives in pre-Nazi Germany.

Therefore, this film is not only a testimony about the German past but also the German present. It displays the irrational annihilation of six young Germans at the end of WWII, summoning up a very agonizing recollection of Nazi Germany’s futile effort to turn back the Allied invasion by hurling teenage boys into the