Reframing Antifascism Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta K
Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure
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Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta Kuckhoff Joanne Sayner
10.1057/9781137358905 - Reframing Antifascism, Joanne Sayner
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Reframing Antifascism
10.1057/9781137358905 - Reframing Antifascism, Joanne Sayner
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WOMEN WITHOUT A PAST? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism
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Reframing Antifascism
Joanne Sayner Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies, University of Birmingham
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Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta Kuckhoff
Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978–0–230–36875–0 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sayner, Joanne. Reframing antifascism : memory, genre and the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff / Joanne Sayner. pages cm Summary: “Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi resistance group ‘The Red Orchestra’ and was condemned to death in 1943. Her sentence was later commuted to imprisonment and she was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. She spent the next thirty years working to commemorate the group’s antifascist resistance. Through radio broadcasts, letters, exhibitions, journal articles, film, and autobiography, she fought against Cold War narratives which condemned the group as traitors or hailed them as Soviet spies. Using previously unpublished archival sources, this book traces the fascinating life writings of this key figure from the GDR. It draws attention to gendered politics of remembering, to the role of memories of the Holocaust, and to the political identities offered by these diverse forms of commemoration. In doing so, it provocatively intervenes in the contentio
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