Kimberly A. Redding Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow: Remembering Youth in Postwa

Kimberly A. Redding - Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow: Remembering Youth in Postwar Berlin

Publisher: Praeger Publishers | 2004-07-30 | ISBN: 027597961X | PDF | 208 pages | 1.19 MB

Drawing on oral narratives and archival sources gathered in Berlin, this study explores how some 35 Berliners have woven personal memories, their city's divided past, and their nation's complex historical legacy into cohesive life narratives and collective identities. Redding argues that daily experience during the final years of World War II inadvertently prepared German youth for defeat and occupation. While postwar officials lamented youth's apparent apathy, young Berliners were in fact applying lessons in pragmatism and self-reliance learned as National Socialist society crumbled in 1944 and 1945. Although competing political forces strove to rapidly remobilize German youth, young Berliners took advantage of destabilized sociopolitical structures in their war-torn city to assert autonomy and pursue personal initiatives.

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