Jews, Germans, and Allies : Close Encounters in Occupied Germany /

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived t...

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Main Author: Grossmann, Atina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009
Series:ACLS Fellows' Publications.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Where Is Feldafing?; INTRODUCTION: Entangled Histories and Close Encounters; CHAPTER ONE: "Poor Germany": Berlin and the Occupation; CHAPTER TWO: Gendered Defeat: Rape, Motherhood, and Fraternization; CHAPTER THREE: "The survivors were few and the dead were many": Jews in Occupied Berlin; CHAPTER FOUR: The Saved and Saving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in the American Zone; CHAPTER FIVE: Mir Zaynen Do: Sex, Work, and the DP Baby Boom; CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion: The "Interregnum" Ends.