Als Helferin in der Wehrmacht: Eine paradigmatische Figur des Kriegsendes
Title | Als Helferin in der Wehrmacht: Eine paradigmatische Figur des Kriegsendes |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2005 |
Authors | Maubach, Franka |
Journal | Osteuropa |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 4–6 |
Pagination | 197–206 |
Abstract | The figure of the female anti-aircraft gunner is often used by the public interested in history to put the specifics of the end of the war in 1944/45 into a handy image: Women forced into last, senseless missions stand for the totalization of the war through their civil-military hermaphrodite status and represent defeat. The memoirs of the women helpers show the end of the war as an extra-historical condition and varying intellectual draft of a posthistoire. By satirizing and obstinately exposing this end-time experience, the women helpers' memories of missions and odysseys back home simultaneously open up a path from the end of the war back into history. |
URL | https://zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2005/4-6/als-helferin-in-der-wehrmacht/ |
Translated Title | As Female Auxiliary in the Wehrmacht: A Paradigmatic Figure of the End of the War |
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