Artikel
Trauma, memory, and motherhood : Germans and Jewish displaced persons in Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949
Verfasst von:
Grossmann, Atina
in:
Bonn:
1998
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215 - 239 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Grossmann, Atina |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The article considers the traumatic aftermath of World War II and Nazi genocide through the lens of female experiences of violence, motherhood, and childbirth. Between 1945 and 1949, approximately a quarter million Jewish Holocaust survivors, assembled in Displaced Persons camps in occupied Germany - battered, traumatized, and usually the single survivors of exterminated families - produced a remarkable marriage and baby boom. Indeed, the Jewish birth rate in post-Nazi occupied Germany was higher than that of any other postwar Jewish community. At the same time, defeated Germans understood themselves as victims of war and occupation; the inability or unwillingness to bear children was viewed as a major consequence. The article analyzes how both Germans and Jews turned to narratives and metaphors of fertility and maternity to comprehend victimization and survival. A comparative approach to these divergent experiences can enrich our understanding of gender, nation, and memory, and how agency is reclaimed in the face of historical and personal trauma. It should also help to overcome the conventional and persistent division between German history and history of Jews in Germany which still characterizes much of our work on modern German history. | |
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