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The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood
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The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood

Author: Ursula R Mahlendorf
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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"An autobiographical account of the author's childhood and young adulthood in Nazi Germany, the postwar occupation, and her eventual relocation to the West. Contributes to current debates on history and memory, and on everyday and women's history from a feminist, psychoanalytically informed perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: Personal narratives, German
Biography
Named Person: Ursula R Mahlendorf; Ursula R Mahlendorf
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ursula R Mahlendorf
ISBN: 9780271034478 0271034475
OCLC Number: 239240405
Description: 365 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: My family and the Nazis, 1929-1936 --
A small quarry town, 1936-1938 --
Kristallnacht and the beginning of World War II, 1938-1940 --
Today Germany belongs to us, tomorrow the whole world, 1940-1941 --
You are the future leadership of the Hitler youth, 1941-1942 --
Between conformity and rebellion, 1942-1944 --
In the belly of the beast: the teacher seminary, 1944-1945 --
The big wheels are leaving for the West, January-March 1945 --
We don't kill, we heal: the Russian Invasion, 1945 --
My hometown becomes Polish, 1945-1946 --
Refugee in the promised land of the West: return to school, 1946-1948 --
Finding an intellectual home: university, 1949-1954.
Responsibility: Ursula Mahlendorf.
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"An autobiographical account of the author's childhood and young adulthood in Nazi Germany, the postwar occupation, and her eventual relocation to the West. Contributes to current debates on history and memory, and on everyday and women's history from a feminist, psychoanalytically informed perspective"--Provided by publisher.

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