Introduction

Autor: Michael Geheran
Rok vydání: 2020
DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501751011.003.0001
Popis: This chapter gives a vivid picture of what the Jews had to go through at the hand of the Nazis. It discusses what some Jewish veterans had to do to prove their “Germaness.” The chapter tries to understand the motives of the Jewish victims and what they did in order to cope with the circumstance they were in. It argues that Jewish veterans needed to orient themselves towards normative masculine identity, and and cultivated a distinctive manner of thinking and behaving, where courage, self-assertion, and endurance became the measure against which ideal manhood was evaluated. The chapter raises the question of the complexity of the Jewish identity during the time of the holocaust.
Databáze: OpenAIRE