Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich Hardcover - 1996
by Claudia Schoppmann
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In Days of Masquerade Claudia Schoppmann offers the first in-depth account of lesbians living in Germany during the Third Reich. Through a series of interviews, Schoppmann recounts the lives of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims: women who fought against Hitler's regime, others who married gay men to ward off suspicion, and one who remained active despite fairly clear pronouncements of her sexuality. Schoppmann enriches these vivid oral histories with the findings of her archival research, including a fascinating look at Nazi policy papers. She explores the drive toward sexual emancipation in Imperial and Weimar Germany and presents a comprehensive overview of Nazi attitudes and policies toward homosexual men and women. Identifying ways in which the Nazi positions were highly gender-specific, she points out that lesbianism was seen as less reprehensible than male homosexuality, since it was not considered a threat to women's reproductive potential. Days of Masquerade demonstrates that lesbianism, though not criminalized or subjected to systematic persecution as was male homosexuality, was driven underground by the Nazis, the thriving lesbian communities that had flourished during the Weimar Republic effectively destroyed. An eloquent reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich, Days of Masquerade also points out that the experiences of gay men and lesbians during the Nazi era were not one and the same. As a major chapter in the social history of lesbians, Schoppmann's work opens new doors for students of lesbian and gay history, women's studies, and modern German and European history.
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- Title Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich
- Author Claudia Schoppmann
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 1996-08-22
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780231102209 / 0231102208
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.75 x 5.68 x 0.72 in (22.23 x 14.43 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Lesbians - Germany - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-51050
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.766
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 04/22/1996, Page 0
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