Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skilfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion.
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess – names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse … These are the women behind the infamous men – complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarrelled with their husbands, all the while jostling for position with the mighty Führer himself. And yet they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husband's murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labour in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables.
“Wyllie tells the stories of the wives of Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and others...a distinctive prism through which to view the period." -THE GUARDIAN
Mette
7.9.2022
Det er jo en vanvittig kontrast der er imellem deres problemer vs det tyske folk og folk som blev smidt i kzlejre for selv de mindste ting og til ren udryddelse. Hvordan de med større el mindre viden omkring “den endelige løsning” kunne leve deres liv i sus og dus og være komplet ligeglade med hvad nazisterne gjorde. Og de fleste efterfølgende nedtone deres mænds gerninger og/eller ligefrem kontinuerligt støtte nazismen resten af livet.
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