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A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory and the Historiography of Nazi Germany

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Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship

Part of the book series: Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century ((MASSD))

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Abstract

For decades after 1945, mainstream historians overlooked the existence of women in the Third Reich. In the totalitarian paradigms that framed their research questions, coercion from ‘above’ all but obscured consent from ‘below’. Since women occupied no positions of authority in the Nazi hierarchy, it seemed to follow that they had exerted no agency. Perhaps most scholars implicitly agreed with a Nazi saying, ‘The soil provides food, women provide population, and men make history’. During the last decade of the Cold War, however, historians of women and gender joined with social historians in thinking outside totalitarian frameworks. In this chapter, I use research on women in two very different sub-fields, the Holocaust and consumerism, to examine the connections between transformations in post-Cold War public memory and historical scholarship.

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Koonz, C. (2010). A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory and the Historiography of Nazi Germany. In: Lim, JH., Petrone, K. (eds) Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship. Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283275_4

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