To browse Academia. For Heaven's sake', exclaimed a Bavarian housewife, 'don't bring the matter into the newspaper! She had illegally boarded a train carrying French workers back from Germany so that she could be reunited with the French prisoner of war who had worked on her farm and with whom she had fallen in love.
This paper will examine how the regime dealt with German women's relationships with foreign men, to explore how the Nazis tried and, at times, failed to learn from the experiences on the home front in the First World War.
Although it is very clear to see the Nazis' racism in their wartime policies regarding German women's relationships with foreigners, it is remarkable how similar attitudes are among the population at large in the two war periods, and how, in essence, Nazi attempts to inculcate their racist beliefs in all the German people failed.
It is a commonplace that the Nazis were keen to avoid the perceived mistakes on the home front in the First World War. Although the 'stab-in-the-back' legend, the belief that. Instead of an earlier, overwhelming focus on Germans as perpetrators of the Holocaust, historians, novelists, and politicians have sought to turn the spotlight on the notion of Germans as victims in World War II.
Yet it seems there was always a sense of victimhood following Germany's defeat in For those sitting around the family table in those early years after Germany's surrender, Mary Nolan describes a scenario where:. Thomas and E. Richards asserted that the German prisoners of war in Wales 'constituted a very serious menace to the womanhood of this country'.
