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11 - Working on the Relationship

Exchanging Letters, Goods and Photographs in Wartime

from III - The Private at War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2019

By
Andrew Stuart Bergerson ,
Laura Fahnenbruck  and
Christine Hartig
Edited by
Elizabeth Harvey ,
Johannes Hürter ,
Maiken Umbach  and
Andreas Wirsching
Elizabeth Harvey
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Johannes Hürter
Affiliation:
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin
Maiken Umbach
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Andreas Wirsching
Affiliation:
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin
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Summary

This chapter takes the case study of one couple in wartime to examine the intersections between private life and ideas about the Volksgemeinschaft. It argues that the couple’s performance of the rituals of intimacy, the cultivation by each of them of a particular individual persona, and their exchange of letters, photographs and goods were all embedded within the war’s larger material, emotional and political economies. In the process, the couple sought to aestheticise their experiences and to capture through photographs happy memories of moments during wartime for the post-war future they envisaged.

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National SocialismSecond World Warsoldierssoldiers’ wiveswartime lettersconsumer goodswartime tourismphotographs
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Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany , pp. 255 - 278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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