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- Title
Kindheiten im Nationalsozialismus und Zweiten Weltkrieg. Das Zusammenwirken von NS-Erziehung und Bombenangriffen.
- Authors
Quindeau, Ilka; Einert, Katrin; Teuber, Nadine
- Abstract
For the last few years, the experiences of the "war children" of the Second World War have been the subject of several academic studies. The generation of "war children" is considered traumatized; it is estimated that between a third and half of this generation have suffered from these burdens up to the present. The continuing suffering of the then children is (mis-)construed as a more or less exclusive consequence of the Second World War in this context, whereas the cultural dimension of their socialization and education under Nazi ideology is only rarely or very briefly addressed. As we will show in our study, it was not only the nights in bomb shelters, the experience of flight and expulsion that had burdensome and traumatizing consequences, but more importantly the relationship to the parents and National Socialist socialization. This must be examined in tandem with the war experiences in order to chart the suffering and realities of this group of persons adequately and to avoid truncated or decontextualized explanations. In our study, we focus on people born between 1930 and 1945 and ask whether and how different parental identifications with the Nazi system and its educational paradigms affected children's lives. The significance of National Socialist education and intergenerational transmission are examined together with the consequences of wartime events. It is crucial in this context that this is a retroactive and retrospective perspective, which must also be reflected on with regard to its functions in the present.
- Subjects
GERMANY; WORLD War II -- Children; WORLD War II -- Psychological aspects; NATIONAL socialism &; children; EMOTIONAL trauma; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; NATIONAL socialism &; education; PARENT-child relationships &; psychology; AERIAL bombing; WORLD War II; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945; PSYCHOLOGY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
BIOS: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0933-5315
- Publication type
Article