Surviving Hitler's War: Family Life in Germany, 1939-48 by Hester Vaizey
18 million German men left their families from 1939 to serve in the armed forces. 5 million never came back and 11 million were held in POW camps after 1945. Forced to be self-reliant, did German wives enjoy opportunity to claim, then build on, a new sense of empowerment? Hester Vaizey will have none of it. She argues that because conditions were so extremely burdensome for the wives, one way of keeping their strength up was to dream of one day giving up every one of the new responsibilities they had been forced to take on.
(independent.co.uk)
18 million German men left their families from 1939 to serve in the armed forces. 5 million never came back and 11 million were held in POW camps after 1945. Forced to be self-reliant, did German wives enjoy opportunity to claim, then build on, a new sense of empowerment? Hester Vaizey will have none of it. She argues that because conditions were so extremely burdensome for the wives, one way of keeping their strength up was to dream of one day giving up every one of the new responsibilities they had been forced to take on.
(independent.co.uk)
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