Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich
This pathbreaking book is the first in-depth look at lesbians during the Third Reich available in English. Through a series of interviews, Days of Masquerade presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. The women Claudia Schoppmann interviewed and others whose lives she reconstructs took very different paths under the Nazi regime. Some emerged from explicitly political backgrounds and became opponents of the Reich, some left Germany for political or personal...
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Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich. Publishers Weekly FYI: For more information on the experiences of lesbians during WWII, Columbia Univ. will be releasing a collection of short oral histories titled Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich, by Claudia Schoppman, trans. by Allison Brown, in June (cloth $24.50 ISBN 0-231-10220-8).
AcknowledgmentsDays of Masquerade: An Introduction1"Not a Victim, Always a Fighter": Hilde Radusch (1903-1994)31"What Could You Do? - Hitler Was in Power": Anneliese W., or "Johnny" (1916-1995)41"Get the Men Out - Out - Out of Parliament!": Claire Waldoff (1884-1957)57"Will They Find Me Or Won't They?": Gertrude Sandmann (1893-1981)76"I Was Very Careful About What I Said": Margarete Knittel (1906-1991)92"Had I Missed the Mailman, I Would Have Ended Up in Auschwitz": Annette Eick (b. 1909)102"We Were the Enemy, So to Speak": Elisabeth Zimmermann (b. 1913)116"I Threw Myself into My Private Life": Elisabeth Leithauser (b. 1914)123"I Am A Person with German Feelings Through and Through": Ruth Margarete Roellig (1878-1969)133"Evil Powers Run Around the World Looking for a Soul": Freia Eisner (1907-1989)145
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ FYI: For more information on the experiences of lesbians during WWII, Columbia Univ. will be releasing a collection of short oral histories titled Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich, by Claudia Schoppman, trans. by Allison Brown, in June (cloth $24.50 ISBN 0-231-10220-8).\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsExcerpts from recent interviews, contemporary letters, and archival documents stud the accounts of 10 women. Among them are a longtime Communist who opposed the Nazi regime to the end; a popular cabaret singer whose performances were banned for the vulgar content; a Jewish artist forced into hiding; and a novelist whose work echoed Nazi hatred of Jews, Romanians, and Russians. The introduction explains the position and activity of lesbians before and after the Nazi regime. No index. Originally published as Zeit der Maskierung: Lebensgeschichten lebischer Frauen im "Dritten Reich" by Orlanda Frauenverlag GmbH in 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
