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- Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
- Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- I Interpreting the Private under National Socialism
- II The Private in the Volksgemeinschaft
- III The Private at War
- 10 Personal Relationships between Harmony and Alienation
- 11 Working on the Relationship
- 12 Love Letters from Front and Home*
- 13 ‘A Birth Is Nothing Out of the Ordinary Here… ’
- 14 Transformations of the ‘Private’
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Personal Relationships between Harmony and Alienation
Aspects of Home Leave during the Second World War
from III - The Private at War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2019
- Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
- Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- I Interpreting the Private under National Socialism
- II The Private in the Volksgemeinschaft
- III The Private at War
- 10 Personal Relationships between Harmony and Alienation
- 11 Working on the Relationship
- 12 Love Letters from Front and Home*
- 13 ‘A Birth Is Nothing Out of the Ordinary Here… ’
- 14 Transformations of the ‘Private’
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the home leave granted to soldiers during the Second World War as a fundamental dimension of private life for millions of Germans in wartime. It explores the topic from a number of different perspectives. It outlines the regime’s policies and propaganda regarding home leave as a privilege, focusing on the regime’s goals and its conflicting impulses both to control the time men spent away from their military duties and to allow some degree of undisturbed privacy. The chapter then examines personal letters between home and front in order to explore the expectations and experiences relating to home leave on the part of the men on leave and their wives or girlfriends and families. Finally, it uses cases from military and civil courts to show instances of marital conflict and domestic violence associated with home leave.
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- Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany , pp. 232 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019