From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
副标题: Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918-1945
ISBN: 9780521861847
出版社: Cambridge University Press
出版年: 2007-1-8
页数: 326
定价: USD 104.99
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and family policy. This book explores Weimar and Nazi policy to highlight the fundamental, far-reaching change wrought by the Nazis and the disparity between national family policy design and its implementation at the local level. Relying on a broad range of sources - including court records, sterilization files, church accounts, and women's oral histories - it demonstrates how local officials balanced the benefits of marriage, divorce, and adoption against budgetary concerns, church influence, and their own personal beliefs. Throughout both eras individual Germans collaborated with, rebelled against, and evaded state mandates, in the process fundamentally altering the impact of national policy.