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Author Mahlendorf, Ursula R. (Ursula Renate), 1929-2018

Title The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood / Ursula Mahlendorf
Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One . My Family and the Nazis, 1929-1936 -- Two . A Small Quarry Town, 1936-1938 -- Three . Kristallnacht and the Beginning of World War II, 1938-1940 -- Four . Today Germany Belongs to Us--Tomorrow, the Whole World, 1940-1941 -- Five . You Are the Future Leadership of the Hitler Youth, 1941-1942 -- Six . Between Conformity and Rebellion, 1942-1944 -- Seven . In the Belly of the Beast: The Teacher Seminary, 1944-1945 -- Eight . The Big Wheels Are Leaving for the West, January-March 1945 -- Nine . We Don't Kill, We Heal: The Russian Invasion, 1945 -- Ten . My Hometown Becomes Polish, 1945-1946 -- Eleven . Refugee in the Promised Land of the West: Return to School, 1946-1948 -- Twelve . Finding an Intellectual Home: University, 1949-1954 -- Epilogue -- Books Consulted -- Index
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-346) and index
Notes English
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Subject Mahlendorf, Ursula R. (Ursula Renate), 1929-2018 -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Mahlendorf, Ursula R. fast (OCoLC)fst01992676
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
College teachers -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Childhood and youth of a person.
College teachers.
California -- Santa Barbara.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271036526
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