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Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War - A Democratic German Feminist's Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism (Paperback, New edition)
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Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War - A Democratic German Feminist's Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture, 20
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How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime
that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key
question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888-1982), the
democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this
book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed German political
propaganda day by day, giving her critique a gendered focus by
challenging the ethos of masculinity that sustained the Nazi
regime. This pioneering study interprets her diaries, secretly
written in twenty notebooks now preserved at the Stuttgart City
Archive, as a fascinating source for the study of everyday life in
the Third Reich. The opening sections sketch the paradigms that
shaped Haag's creativity, analysing the impact of the First World
War and the feminist and pacifist commitments that influenced her
literary and journalistic writings. Extensive quotations from the
diaries are provided, with English translations, to illustrate her
responses to the cataclysms that followed the rise of Hitler, from
the military conquests and Jewish deportations to the devastation
of strategic bombing. The book concludes with a chapter that traces
the links between Haag's critique of military tyranny and her
contribution to post-war reconstruction.
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