Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany

Abstract

Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. This volume sheds fresh light on this issue by showing the different ways in which non-Jewish Germans sought to uphold their privacy. It offers some surprising conclusions about how private roles and private self-expression could be served by, and in turn serve, an alignment with the community. Contributions on occupied Poland also offer insights into the efforts by 'ethnic Germans' to defend their aspirations to privacy and by Jews to salvage the remnants of private life in the ghetto.

Citation

Harvey, E., Hürter, J., Umbach, M., & Wirsching, A. (Eds.). (2019). Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754859

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Acceptance Date: Jan 10, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 30, 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 2, 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• ISBN: 9781108484985
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754859
• Keywords: National Socialism, private life, privacy, Second World War
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3034698
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/private-life-and-privacy-in-nazi-germany/4D7F366DD2EE40FCF755CEACC0860F77
• Additional Information: Edited by Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Hürter, Maiken Umbach and Andreas Wirsching.; ; Published in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin