Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moeller, Robert G

Titel

What Did You Do in the War, Mutti? Courageous Women, Compassionate Commanders, and Stories of the Second World War

Ist Teil von

• German history, 2004-10, Vol.22 (4), p.563-594

Ort / Verlag

Sage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the mid–1950s, West Germans were ready to fight the Second World War again, this time at the cinema. This paper analyses Kinder, Mütter und ein General, a war film in which a band of courageous women pushed to the eastern front in March 1945 to bring home their sons who had only just put on Wehrmacht uniforms. The paper concludes that the film indicates how West Germans had come to understand the past of the war a decade after the shooting stopped, and how memories of the war also shaped contemporary discussions of rearmement, the rehabilitation of the Wehrmacht, and the redefinition of ‘a women's place’ after the defeat of Fascism.