Damnit. This thermo cup makes me burn my tongue on my coffee all of the time.

Where Hitlers bordssamtal is an account from the time period being discussed, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics is a treatise on women in the Third Reich, written by Claudia Koonz and published in 1986. Its main purpose is to inform about and discuss, according to Koonz, a previously unexplored topic. The treatise focuses a lot on Gertrud Schultz-Klink, the chief of the Women’s Bureau under Hitler. The value of the book is that it is a thorough analysis and that is gathers a lot of information on the topic of women in the Third Reich, in addition to a close scrutiny of Schultz-Klink. Also, Koonz has the benefit of hindsight and can thus draw more accurate conclusions. Limitations of the book include that it is one of the first on the topic, which means that the research abilities are limited, and the narrow focus with Schultz-Klink as protagonist might mean that some greater themes are omitted. Also, it can be argued that a lot of modern historians approach a historical topic with a preset attitude, i.e. with hopes of verifying their own hypothesis, thus making the treatise at hand less objective and less accurate in its conclusions. Since this book, too, is written prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, one might assume that the political situation of the time period affected Koonz, both in her research and in her analysis.


I AM BORED AND I AM WRITING STUFF THAT SOUNDS DAMNED GOOD. I WONDER IF THAT IS NORMAL. AND IF THERE'S A CONNECTION.