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Friendship without Borders : Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany / Phil Leask.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789206555
  • 9781789206562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920.720943 23/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- The Schönebeck Women and Where They Went -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Schoolgirls to Young Women -- Chapter 2. Grown Up -- Chapter 3. No Longer Young -- Chapter 4. Turning Fifty -- Chapter 5. Toward Retirement -- Chapter 6. Reunited? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- The Schönebeck Women and Where They Went -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Schoolgirls to Young Women -- Chapter 2. Grown Up -- Chapter 3. No Longer Young -- Chapter 4. Turning Fifty -- Chapter 5. Toward Retirement -- Chapter 6. Reunited? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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