TY  - BOOK
AU  - Timms,Edward
AU  - Haag,Anna
TI  - Anna Haag and her secret diary of the Second World War: a democratic German feminist's response to the catastrophe of National Socialism 
T2  - Women in German literature
AV  - PT2615.A123 Z65 2015eb
U1  - 838/.91209 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Haag, Anna
KW  - Authors, German
KW  - Germany
KW  - Stuttgart
KW  - Biography
KW  - National socialism
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, German
KW  - Stuttgart (Germany)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: fragments of history in the raw -- Paradigms of creativity and marriage with an educational mission -- Fighting for the Fatherland: sacrifice, resilience and loyalty betrayed -- Republican values, female agency and the international peace campaign -- Responses to Hitler's seizure of power: a purely masculine affair? -- The people's war: diarists, demagogues, spin-doctors, popular broadcasters and secret listeners -- False ideals: master race, religious mission, faith in the Führer, tainted healthcare and perverted justice -- Avalanche: super-criminals, yellow stars, deportations, plunder, slaughter, and the spectre of poison gas -- Echoes of Stalingrad and un-German attitudes: women's responses to total war -- Cities razed to the ground and calls for resistance: can you kill Hitler with a cooking spoon? -- Matrix of democracy: the diarist's political vision -- Epilogue: the legacy of a Swabian internationalist -- Chronology of Anna Haag's career -- Bibliography of her writings -- Index of personal names
N2  - "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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