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1.
Submitted by: Dieter Buse
dbuse@nickel.laurentian.ca

Dear Colleagues,
        Re Post on Sexuality in Nazi-Era
        At the risk of being self-promoting, the work edited by Dieter
K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr, Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of
History, People and Culture, 1871-1990 (New York, 1998) has entries on
Sex Reform, Homosexuality, Prostitution (among others) and each article has
numerous
bibliographic references (going beyond those Dr. Augustine mentioned)
plus cross referencing to related articles with further bibliographic
suggestions. This would be a very good place for students/researchers to
start and was why the work was created.
        Sincerely, Dieter (K.Buse)

2.
Submitted by: Bruce Campbell
bbcamp@mail.wm.edu

Dolores:

Wer Drittes Reich sagt, muss auch Weimar sagen....

I would recommend that your student also look at relevant material from
Weimar, starting with Anton Kaes (et al) _Weimar Sourcebook_. There is a
very large body of material on the (re) construction of gender, etc. in
Weimar which I think will be very pertinent. After all, people had sex
before 1933. (You know this, but I'm saying it for the public forum...)

I would also recommend caution with Theweleit (though I use it); there are
actually few SS men in it, and not even as many Nazis as one might think.
While what he says is suggestive, I think he makes claims far beyond what
the material can actually deliver, particularly since his most telling
remarks are very often based on just a handful of largely fictional
sources. Caveat lector!

You specified English-language sources, so it won't help telling your
student to look at some of Thewleit's original sources. Some, including the
works of Ernst von Salomon, are available in translation, though hard to
find. (Of course, von Salomon was never really a Nazi)

And what about film, or advertising images in printed media? Have you
spoken about visual sources?


Bruce Campbell
College of William and Mary

3.
Submitted by:  Alison Owings
AlysounO@aol.com

  For Prof. Augustine,
I don't mean to toot my own Flugel, but some of the women in my book,
Frauen/German Women Recall the Third Reich, told me their experiences
of/feelings about sexuality in the Nazi-Zeit, in particular Frau Rauhut,
 Frau Haferkamp, and Frau Weihs.  Each represents only herself, of course.
   I think the last chapter of Barbara Beuys's "Familienleben in
 Deutschland"
could be helpful, too.
Regards,
Alison Owings

4.
Submitted by: Annette F. Timm
atimm@lynx.net

In answer to Prof. Augustine's query:

Since I have researched subjects which touch on sexuality and prostitution in
the Nazi era myself, I assumed that it would be a relatively easy matter to
pull citations out of my database for you. What I realize now, however, is
that the number of such sources in English translation is in fact rather
sparse
 --
especially if your student wants to stick with heterosexuality (there is
 more on homosexuality in the Third Reich). Nevertheless, I found a few
things to
add to your list:

More generally on sexuality in the Third Reich:

Bleuel, Hans Peter. Sex and Society in Nazi Germany. Philadelphia and New
York:
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973.

McLaren, Angus. Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 1999.
   [Note: this is obviously a general account, but it focuses on Europe,
and he
certainly deals with Germany. I'm sure it would be a good source of
 further
bibliographic help.]

Given the myths surrounding it, one would have to at least mention the
Lebensborn policy:

Hillel, Marc, and Clarissa Henry. Of Pure Blood [the (hi)story of
 Lebensborn.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1976.
   [a somewhat popular and polemical account, but useful in that it refutes
the
very widespread (then and now) misconception of the Lebensborn program as a
system of stud farms]

Dieter Waeltermann, "The Functions and Activities of the Lebensborn
Organization within the SS, the Nazi Regime and Nazi Ideology," The Honors
Journal II (1985)

Larry V. Thompson, "Lebensborn and the Eugenics Policy of the Reichsfuehrer
SS,"
Central European History 4 (1971): 54-77

I wonder if the following might have something to say about sexuality? I
haven't looked at it myself:

Lacey, Kate. Feminine Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public
Sphere,
1923-1945. : University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Finally, I might as well note that my dissertation, which will be deposited
this fall, has 3 chapters on the Nazi era dealing with population policy,
venereal disease control, marriage counseling, and prostitution. Assuming
 that
your student is writing the MA over the course of the next year, this will
certainly be available in time to be useful. And while I think of it, there
 is
also a dissertation in progress (by Patricia Szobar, Rutgers University) on
the
race defilement policies and trials.

I hope this is helpful.

Annette Timm

--
Annette F. Timm
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Adjunct Instructor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Soon-to-be Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universitaet Berlin

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