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Divided Lives
Cynthia A. Crane
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Description for Divided Lives
Paperback. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 344.
This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they were. The government changed and they suddenly no longer had the right kind of blood, the right name, the right family background, the right physical features to be considered a member of society, city, or state. These stories are from German women who were a part of a Jewish-Christian "mixed marriage" and were subsequently persecuted under the Nuremberg laws. Hitler called them "mischling"- half-breeds, however, they have often been passed over in studies of the Holocaust - ... Read more
This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they were. The government changed and they suddenly no longer had the right kind of blood, the right name, the right family background, the right physical features to be considered a member of society, city, or state. These stories are from German women who were a part of a Jewish-Christian "mixed marriage" and were subsequently persecuted under the Nuremberg laws. Hitler called them "mischling"- half-breeds, however, they have often been passed over in studies of the Holocaust - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403961556
SKU
V9781403961556
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About Cynthia A. Crane
CYNTHIA A. CRANE is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Reviews for Divided Lives
Cynthia Crane's exploration of Jewish-Christian women resists simple classification. It is at once a personal memoir of a scholar's intellectual journey, an oral history, and a serious study of German women who had been marginalized both by the Nazis and by previous scholars. She writes of transgressions in the past and in ... Read more