Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich

by Claudia Schoppmann

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231102209
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/22/1996
Series:	Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Claudia Schoppmann is a writer on German women's history. She is the author ofNationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualitaet(1991), on Nazi politics and female homosexuality, and coeditor ofNach der sho geborren(1994), on second generation Jewish women in Germany. She lives in Berlin and works for Geschichtswerkstatt, a local history project. Allison Brown has translated several books, including with Belinda Cooper, H. Bredekamp's Anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany (1995), as well as numerous articles and papers. She lives in Berlin.

Editorial Reviews

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).

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Excerpts 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)

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