Name Claudia Koonz | Role Historian | |
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Books The Nazi Conscience, Mothers in the Fatherland Awards Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Nonfiction | ||
Claudia koonz how the nazis made anti semitism respectable
Claudia Ann Koonz (born 1940) is an American historian of Nazi Germany. Koonz's critique of the role of women during the Nazi era, from a feminist perspective, has become a subject of much debate and research in itself.
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- Claudia koonz how the nazis made anti semitism respectable
- Claudia koonz hitler s assault on the golden rule
- Education
- Scholarship
- Awards and honors
- Work
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Claudia koonz hitler s assault on the golden rule
Education
Koonz received a PhD from Rutgers University in 1970. She has taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and then at Duke University.
Scholarship
Koonz is best known for documenting the appeal of Nazism to German women and their enthusiasm in supporting the Nazis. Koonz has established that the leaders of German feminist groups were happy to go along with Gleichschaltung that coerced Germans into following Nazi policy. Koonz has noted that female supporters of the Nazis accepted the Nazi division of the sexes into a public sphere for men and a private sphere for women. Koonz has claimed that women involved in resistance activities were more likely to escape notice owing to the "masculine" values of the Third Reich.
Another notable claim made by Koonz is that women who most successfully asserted themselves in the Third Reich were also the women who violated the norms of civilized society such as Ilse Koch. Koonz maintains that only women who were opposed to Nazism 100% can be considered to be a resistance; those women who protested against sterilization and the Action T4 program without protesting the deportation of Jews to death camps are not considered by Koonz to be part of the resistance. Koonz's views have often had her pitted against Gisela Bock in a battle some have referred to as the Historikerinnenstreit (quarrel among historians of women).