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Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.
About the author
Elizabeth Harvey is Professor of History at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on Weimar and Nazi Germany, particularly on gender history, the history of youth and the history of photography. She is the author of Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization (2003) and is currently working on the history of gender and forced labour in occupied Poland.Johannes Hürter is Head of the Research Department Munich at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich and Adjunct Professor of Modern History at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin. He is a leading expert on the political and military history of Weimar Germany and the Third Reich. His works include Hitlers Heerführer: Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion 1941/42 (2006) and Hitler: New Research (edited with Elizabeth Harvey, 2018).Maiken Umbach is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham. She is co-director of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies, and Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project 'Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism'. She has published extensively on the relationship between subjectivity, identity politics, and ideology in modern European history. Her works include Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018) and Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story (2018).Andreas Wirsching is Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich and Professor of History at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin. He has published extensively on European political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of the European Union. His most recent works include Hüter der Ordnung: Die Innenministerien in Bonn und Ost-Berlin nach dem Nationalsozialismus (edited with Frank Bösch, 2018).
Summary
It is often assumed that there was no such thing as private life under Nazi rule. This volume challenges that view by showing how non-Jewish Germans asserted their privacy and asking how far the regime encouraged such aspirations. At the same time, it traces how 'ethnic Germans' and Jews in occupied Poland sought to defend their privacy.
