Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: generation conflict and German history 1770–1968
- 2 The ideal of youth in late eighteenth-century Germany
- 3 Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German youth in the late eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth century
- 4 The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine Germany
- 5 Jewish politics and generational change in Wilhelmine Germany
- 6 The ‘front generation’ and the politics of Weimar Germany
- 7 The New Woman and generation conflict: perceptions of young women's sexual mores in the Weimar Republic
- 8 Generations of German historians: patronage, censorship and the containment of generation conflict 1918–1945
- 9 Gender, generation and politics: young Protestant women in the final years of the Weimar Republic
- 10 The Hitler Youth generation and its role in the two post-war German states
- 11 The BDM generation: a female generation in transition from dictatorship to democracy
- 12 A generation twice betrayed: youth policy in the transition from the Third Reich to the Soviet Zone of Occupation (1945–1946)
- 13 The generation conflict that never was: young labour in the Ruhr mining industry 1945–1957
- 14 The German Kriegskinder: origins and impact of the generation of 1968
- Index
11 - The BDM generation: a female generation in transition from dictatorship to democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: generation conflict and German history 1770–1968
- 2 The ideal of youth in late eighteenth-century Germany
- 3 Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German youth in the late eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth century
- 4 The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine Germany
- 5 Jewish politics and generational change in Wilhelmine Germany
- 6 The ‘front generation’ and the politics of Weimar Germany
- 7 The New Woman and generation conflict: perceptions of young women's sexual mores in the Weimar Republic
- 8 Generations of German historians: patronage, censorship and the containment of generation conflict 1918–1945
- 9 Gender, generation and politics: young Protestant women in the final years of the Weimar Republic
- 10 The Hitler Youth generation and its role in the two post-war German states
- 11 The BDM generation: a female generation in transition from dictatorship to democracy
- 12 A generation twice betrayed: youth policy in the transition from the Third Reich to the Soviet Zone of Occupation (1945–1946)
- 13 The generation conflict that never was: young labour in the Ruhr mining industry 1945–1957
- 14 The German Kriegskinder: origins and impact of the generation of 1968
- Index
Summary
When I think of my early childhood and how, well, how lower middle class and how narrow it was, I'd have to say – it was the war that made the difference! No, it was actually even before the war … That seven years age difference between me and my sister – weoften talk about it – my sister doesn't swim, my sister doesn't do exercises – although some people around then did do that sort of thing – 1 mean, it's partly simply the way she is – but it's also the whole attitude and how things were then. She grew up, you know, with hair in a bun and pointed shoes and high heels and all that … even now, if she's going on about something, I say, well, you're a lady and I'm not. And, you know, that is somehow the difference between us. They were all like that, not just her … that's what it was all about, that's how it still was, you know, sort of having a rod up your back and everything tightly strapped in. And then when I was older everything was a bit freer and, you know, I'd almost be tempted to say that perhaps the political change [i.e. the Nazi seizure of power – translator] had something to do with it … because it was like that then, everything was more sporty, you wore flat heels and, yes, you went swimming. For my sister that would have been impossible, pretty well. […]
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- Generations in ConflictYouth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany 1770–1968, pp. 227 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995