Tagebuch und Autobiografie: Weiblichkeitskonstruktionen und Erinnerungskulturen: Das Kriegs-/Brieftagebuch und die Autobiografie einer nazi-affinen Frau

• Autores: Sabine Grenz
• Localización: Feministische Studien, ISSN 0723-5186, Vol. 33, Nº. 2, 2015, pág. 3
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Research of ego documents from the Second World War written by non-persecuted Germans have so far prioritised letters and diaries written by men, especially soldiers at the front. However, as ample research on gender and National Socialism proves, also civilian women were involved in the war (e. g. sowing clothes) and potentially supported it. In this article I will focus on the diary and later written autobiographies of an active women member of the NSDAP that is written in form of letters to her husband who was missed as a soldier. In her diary she creates an identity (and memory) in line with the party’s gender construction. However, in her later biographies written in other social contexts, she leaves out her affirmative attitudes and creates an identity in line with the universal figure of the war widow. Thus, her diary allows insights in memory shifts.