Submitted by: Dolores Augustine
augustin@math.sunysb.edu

Dear Colleagues,

A graduate student of mine is planning to write a comparative M.A.
thesis on some aspect of sexuality in Nazi Germany and Stalinist
Russia.  I believe the focus will be on heterosexuality, particularly
repression in everyday life/prostitution.  I would see this as an aspect of
Alltagsgeschichte.  A colleague of mine who
specializes in Soviet history will mentor the student as far as the
Soviet Union goes, while I, as a specialist in German history, will
supervise the German side.  In terms of secondary literature, I've
recommended works by George Mosse, Atina Grossmann, Wilhelm Reich
(problematic though he is), Robert Gellately,
Klaus Theweleit;  Resistance of the Heart;  literature on the Swing
youth;  literature on women's history (Claudia Koonz, but also Victoria
de Grazia, etc.).  [Full citations below. -ed.]  We are now looking for
primary sources in English
translation that give insight into daily life.  We would be grateful for
any advice that H-Net subscribers could give us.  I know this sounds very
general, but the
project is in the early planning stages, and I would like to see the
focus of it determine by availability of material.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Dr. Dolores Augustine
St. John's University
New York

1.  Klaus Theweleit, Male fantasies (Minneapolis:  University of
Minnesota Press, 1987).  Theweleit subjects the autobiographies
of SS men to psychoanalysis and delves into a lot of the history
of sexuality in the West.
2.  George Mosse, Nationalism and sexuality (Madison:  University
of Wisconsin Press, 1988).
3.  Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society (NY:  Oxford
University Press, 1990.  Interesting on Jewish-Aryan relationships.
4.  Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart:  Intermarriage
and the Rosenstrasse protest in Nazi Germany (NY:  WW Norton,
1996).
5.  Literature on the "swing youth":  I vaguely remember that
there was a sexual dimension here.  There is an article on
the "swing youth" in Richard Bessel, Life in the Third
Reich (NY:  Oxford University Press, 1987).  Also Earl
Beck, "The Anti-Nazi 'Swing Youth' 1942-1945," Journal
of Popular Culture 19 (1985), 45-53.
6.  Literature on women and Nazism/fascism, for example:
Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland (NY:  St. Martin's,
1987);  Victoria de Grazia, How Fascism ruled Women.  Italy,
1922-1945 (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1992).
7.  Atina Grossmann, Reforming Sex.  The German Movement
for Birth Control & Abortion Reform, 1920-1950 (NY:  Oxford
University Press, 1995).
8.  Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (NY:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Reich's theory of fascism is
problematic, but important.

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