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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The 'Private' Became 'Public': Wives as Denouncers in the Third Reich
Contributor:
Joshi, Vandana
Published:
Sage Publications, 2002
Published in:
Journal of Contemporary History, 37 (2002) 3, Seite 419-435
Language:
English
ISSN:
0022-0094
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This article explores how the practice of political denunciation affected family relations in nazi Germany. It focuses on housewives who denounced their husbands to the Gestapo. Under the pretext of reporting an opponent of the regime, they used denunciation to subvert patriarchal order at home and to challenge the stereotypical image of the subservient housewife. The article is based on the Gestapo case files of victims pertaining to the metropolitan city of Düsseldorf. I have drawn my stories from specific categories of 'crime', namely, KPD, Heimtückegesetz, Fremdvölkische Minderheiten and Fremdarbeiter. The names of private individuals have been changed.