Broken Lives : How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century /
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jar...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press
[2018]
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc779sq |
Sadržaj:
- Introduction: Narratives of German experiences
- PART I: PREWAR CHILDHOOD
- 1. Imperial ancestors
- 2. Weimar children
- 3. Nazi adolescents
- PART II: WARTIME YOUTH
- 4. Male violence
- 5. Female struggles
- 6. Victims' suffering
- PART III: POSTWAR ADULTHOOD
- 7. Defeat as new beginning
- 8. Democratic maturity
- 9. Communist disappointment
- Conclusion: Memories of fractured lives.