Frau im Haus und Girl im Spiegel
Discourse on Women in the Interregnum Period of 1945–1949 and the Question of German Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9643117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Höhn (0000-0002-8587-8271, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-90 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938900019968 |
| OpenAlex | W2105751406 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
Defeat after the Second World War was complete for Germany, and life for the civilian population was grim. In one of Erich Kästner's poems, read at a 1947 theater production, a war widow laments that “ganz Deutschland ist ein Wartesaal mit Millionen von Frauen.” Indeed, in 1945 there were approximately seven million more women in Germany than men. More than three million German soldiers were killed in the war. Seven million German soldiers were still prisoners of war, leaving their wives and families to fend for themselves in the rubble heaps of the German cities. Adding to the hardship of the rural areas were the twelve million refugees who had been expelled from the territories conquered by the Soviet army and then had streamed into the American and British zones of occupation to resettle. Defeated Germany was split into four zones of occupation ruled by military governments. German men who had been promised the conquest of the world returned from the war and found their treasured patriarchy undermined in the home and in the state
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2010 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |