HIST 398 Women, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust: Experiences and Memories
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What is in this guide?
This course research guide contains links to resources for History 398: Women, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust: Experiences and Memories.
This guide is divided into five sections:
- Home - provides information on how to find books and articles and how to get in touch with the subject librarian
- Historical research - learning to do historical research and interpret different types of primary sources (see also the guides of the Sakai site for the class)
- Women’s and Gender History - introduction into the theory and methodology of women’s and gender history
- Primary sources - how to find primary sources and helpful links to additional websites and databases with primary documents related to the subject of the course
- Additional resources - links to additional websites and databases with primary and secondary sources and access to a Citing Information Tutorial
The Bibliography for the Seminar HIST 398
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The Bibliography for the Seminar HIST 398Please start your search for secondary literature and primary documents with the bibliography Prof. Hagemann has compiled for you. The bibliography includes most of the most relevant English-language secondary literature and many autobiographical accounts.
Finding Books
- If you know the author and title you are looking for, search them in the UNC Catalog. If you can not find it here, order it via Interlibrary Loan.
- If you want to find more literature on the subject, start with a keyword search in the catalog. Once you have located a relevant item, you can look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings with the full record tab and follow those links to find related books
- In addition to the UNC Catalog, you can use WorldCat. WorldCat is the world's largest catalog containing millions of bibliographic records for items in the collections of thousands of libraries from all over the world.
To find primary resources, you can add any of the following keywords to your search: letters, diaries, speeches, newspaper articles, autobiographies, oral histories, government and organizational records, statistical data, maps, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, advertisements, and artifacts.
The most important books for the class that you are requested to read:
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Women in Nazi Germany by From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler¿s Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from the stereotypes to provide a more complete picture of how they experienced Nazism in peacetime and at war. What was the status and role of women in pre-Nazi Germany and how did different groups of women respond to the Nazi project in practice? Jill Stephenson looks at the social, cultural and economic organisation of women¿s lives under Nazism, and assesses opposing claims that German women were either victims or villains of National Socialism.ISBN: 0582418364Publication Date: 2001-10-05 -
Women in the Holocaust by Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide - through the testimony of the women themselves - not only increases ourunderstanding of this terrible period in history, but makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. Women in the Holocaust is about the ways in which socially- and culturally-constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact thatgender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Indeed, paradoxically enough, the extreme conditions of the Holocaust - even of the death camps - may have reinforced the importance of gender.Whilst Jewish men and women were both sentenced to death, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. Pregnant women as well as women accompanied by young children or those deemed incapable of hard labour were sent straight to the gas chambers. The very qualities which madethem women were manipulated and exploited by the Nazis as a source of dehumanization. Moreover, women were less likely to survive the camps even if they were not selected for death. Gender in the Holocaust therefore became a matter of life and death.ISBN: 9780199608683Publication Date: 2017-04-16 -
Going to the Sources by ISBN: 9781118515310Publication Date: 2013-02-11
The following two books will provide you with a broader overview of the history of women in Modern Germany and the history of Nazi Germany:
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Women in German History by ISBN: 0854962336Publication Date: 1990-06-07 -
Nazi Germany by ISBN: 9780333600726Publication Date: 2006-10-05
Finding Scholarly Articles
Databases
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Academic Search Premier Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
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Historical Abstracts Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) and indexes nearly 2,300 journals in over 40 languages.
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Women's Studies International Interdisciplinary, international database covering the core literature of the field of women's and gender studies with links to full text.
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GWonline This project collects and organizes secondary literature, women’s autobiographies, films, and informative websites on this subject to make them available to the public. GWonline is connected to the Oxford Handbook on Gender and War since 1600.
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Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive The Visual History Archive contains almost 52,000 videotaped interviews of Jewish Holocaust survivors, rescuers, and witnesses gathered by the Shoah Foundation between 1994 and 2005. The Archive also includes testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, and the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
Note: Each user is required to create a username and password during the first sign in. Some videos are stored locally and can be viewed immediately; others stored at USC can be ordered and usually arrive (with email notification) for viewing within a few hours -
Testaments to the Holocaust Over 100,000 images from the renowned collection of the Wiener Library in London, the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution. Included are eyewitness accounts of anti-semitic and Nazi activity in Germany and Austria; photographs of Jewish life before, during, and after World War II; anti-Semitic propaganda material; Holocaust-related historical publications; and biographical details of major figures in the Nazi Party and SS hierarchies.
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Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 Consists of historical documents from the British National Archives that offer perspectives on politics, diplomacy and every day life in the German-occupied countries.
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes Provides documentation of the investigation and prosecution of war crimes by Nazi concentration camp commandants and other personnel. Documents include correspondence, trial records and transcripts, interrogation reports, trial exhibits, photographs of atrocities, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
Librarian
How to search for articles
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Click on any one of the databases or journals.
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In the search box enter keywords such as: Holocaust, World War 1939-1945, Germany, Gender
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For articles that are more specific to your topic add keywords such as: Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, Women, Gender, Ravensbrück etc.
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Try more than one Database!
Articles + Catalog
Interlibrary Loan
Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.
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