Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 3034757
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108754859
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- ISBN
- 9781108719032
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume is the product of a four-year international research project, supported by the Leibniz Foundation, co-directed by Maiken Umbach and Elizabeth Harvey at the University of Nottingham in collaboration with leading experts of National Socialism at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Umbach and the co-editors developed the volume’s research aims of: bringing new cultural history approaches in Anglophone scholarship together with a political turn within Germanophone Alltagsgeschichte; seeking to establish the history of ‘the private’ as a new research field; and developing understanding of how National Socialist ideology was forged, negotiated, and deployed at the intersection of official politics and subjectivities, affect, and aspiration. Umbach and her co-editors’ overall conception of the volume aimed to showcase the ‘added value’ of this synergy. Umbach’s co-authored introduction (12,600 words) suggests how these two historiographies can be brought into a fruitful dialogue and analyses some exemplary primary sources. It aims to develop a new set of methodologies that allow historians to read a range of different primary sources, from ego-documents via court records to official marriage guidance, to explore how National Socialism was rooted in, and energised by, the valorisation of private aspirations of ‘desirable’ citizens. It also explores how denying the very concept of privacy to ‘undesirables’ became a central tool of racial bio-politics. Umbach’s own chapter, ‘Re-Inventing the Private under National Socialism’ (10,270 words), draws on her research to explore how this approach and its attendant methodologies can be operationalised in the analysis of three sets of primary sources: a collection of recorded private conversations about politics that was published in 1943; the holiday albums of three young German women in 1944, depicting the ‘privatisation of Nazi aesthetics’; and in the illustrated marriage diary of a couple separated by the war between 1942 and 1946.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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