04433nam 22006855 450 99624831930331620220831121216.01-4008-3274-810.1515/9781400832743(CKB)2550000001304161(EBL)1691725(SSID)ssj0001194179(PQKBManifestationID)12496540(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001194179(PQKBWorkID)11149707(PQKB)11169719(MiAaPQ)EBC1691725(OCoLC)880409298(MdBmJHUP)muse43106(DE-B1597)453578(OCoLC)979968468(DE-B1597)9781400832743(dli)HEB08937(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000051(EXLCZ)99255000000130416120190708d2009 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrJews, Germans, and Allies Close Encounters in Occupied Germany /Atina GrossmannCourse BookPrinceton, NJ :Princeton University Press,[2009]©20071 online resource (414 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-14317-X 0-691-08971-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-367) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface: Where Is Feldafing? --Abbreviations --INTRODUCTION. Entangled Histories and Close Encounters --CHAPTER ONE. "Poor Germany": Berlin and the Occupation --CHAPTER TWO. Gendered Defeat: Rape, Motherhood, and Fraternization --CHAPTER THREE. "The survivors were few and the dead were many": Jews in Occupied Berlin --CHAPTER FOUR. The Saved and Saving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in the American Zone --CHAPTER FIVE. Mir Zaynen Do: Sex, Work, and the DP Baby Boom --CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: The "Interregnum" Ends --Abbreviations in Notes --Notes --Select Bibliography --Acknowledgments --IndexIn the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived through postwar reconstruction to trace the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives. In gripping and unforgettable detail, Atina Grossmann describes Berlin in the days following Germany's surrender--the mass rape of German women by the Red Army, the liberated slave laborers and homecoming soldiers, returning political exiles, Jews emerging from hiding, and ethnic German refugees fleeing the East. She chronicles the hunger, disease, and homelessness, the fraternization with Allied occupiers, and the complexities of navigating a world where the commonplace mingled with the horrific. Grossmann untangles the stories of Jewish survivors inside and outside the displaced-persons camps of the American zone as they built families and reconstructed identities while awaiting emigration to Palestine or the United States. She examines how Germans and Jews interacted and competed for Allied favor, benefits, and victim status, and how they sought to restore normality--in work, in their relationships, and in their everyday encounters. Jews, Germans, and Allies shows how Jews were integral participants in postwar Germany and bridges the divide that still exists today between German history and Jewish studies.ACLS Fellows' Publications.Close encounters in occupied GermanyJewsGermanyPolitics and government20th centuryHolocaust survivorsGermanyHistory20th centuryJewsGermanyHistory1945-1990GermanyEthnic relationsJewsPolitics and governmentHolocaust survivorsHistoryJewsHistory940.53940.531814Grossmann Atina313104DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996248319303316Jews, germans and allies716053UNISA