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The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany's “Crisis Years” and West German National Identity

Elizabeth Heineman
- 01 Apr 1996 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 2, pp 354-395
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1996-04-01. It has received 117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social history & National identity.

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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

TL;DR: Wilson as mentioned in this paper explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience.
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Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice

TL;DR: Transitional societies must contend with a range of complex challenges as they seek to come to terms with and move beyond an immediate past saturated with mass murder, rape, torture, exploitation, disappearance, displacement, starvation, and all other manner of human suffering as mentioned in this paper.
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War during childhood: The long run effects of warfare on health.

TL;DR: Individuals who were exposed to WWII destruction during the prenatal and early postnatal periods have higher BMIs and are more likely to be obese as adults, and an elevated incidence of chronic health conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorder in adulthood.
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Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable?

TL;DR: In a recent front-page story, the Los Angeles Times characterized Lebensborn as a place where 11,000 children were born to women who mated with elite SS officers as mentioned in this paper.
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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

TL;DR: Wilson as mentioned in this paper explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience.
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"Coming to Terms with the Past": Illusions of Remembering, Ways of Forgetting Nazism in West Germany

TL;DR: In this paper, the recollections of two women may illuminate the intricate "bodily" connectedness that links past experiences with actual well-being or misery, and show the gulf that separates these experiences of suffering because one of the women was a member of the dominant "German Herrenrasse," albeit in a subordinate position.