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Reframing antifascism : memory, genre and the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff

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Reframing antifascism : memory, genre and the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff / Joanne Sayner.
Author
Sayner, Joanne.
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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xiv, 284 pages; 23 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 Using previously unpublished archival sources, this book traces the fascinating life writings of this key figure from the GDR.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 contentious debates about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany"--
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Memories of Resistance -- 1. 'The Radio Today is Our History': Greta Kuckhoff's Radio Broadcasts and Speeches -- 2. Fashioning the Self and the Recipient in Letters: Kuckhoff's Correspondence -- 3. Exhibiting the 'Red Orchestra' -- 4. From Einheit to Die Weltbahne: Kuckhoff's Journal Articles on Resistance -- 5. A Film without a Protagonist? KLK an PTX: Die Rote Kapelle -- 6. From the Rosary to the Nightingale: Memory as Published and Unpublished Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
JFD 14-1192
ISBN
  • 9780230368750 (hardback)
  • 0230368751 (hardback)
LCCN
2013021789
OCLC
829386942
Author
Sayner, Joanne.
Title
Reframing antifascism : memory, genre and the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff / Joanne Sayner.
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Type of Carrier
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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