UCSB
Hist 133C
Prof. Marcuse
German History since 1945
Jan. 27, 2000
Lecture 6: The Denazification Laundry / Women in West Germany
web site: sample journal link is fixed
Q2 on Tuesday: read chap. 7; know the political parties in GDR (one salient feature of each)
From last time: contrast two film clips about
Stunde Null
("Zero Hour")
happy
Trümmerfrauen
The political parties (west): KPD - SPD - FDP - CDU/CSU - BHE
(east): SED - LDPD - CDU - NDPD
Postwar milestones (refer to textbook chapter 6!)
Potsdam conference (17 July-2 Aug. 1945) resettlement/expulsion; econ. unity; reparations
2-3-4-5 "Ds":
Denazification
Demilitarization
Deindustrialization
Decartellization
Democratization
Nuremberg Trial (Nov. 1945-Oct. 1946); 11 successor trials
US Secretary of State Byrnes' Stuttgart speech, Sept. 1946
George Marshall's March 1947 Moscow speech
Churchill Oct. 1948
textbook p. 158: bastion of nazism to outpost of democracy
Marshall Plan Currency Reform Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Women in West Germany
"oversupply": 100 women for each 58 men; 15-50 age group: 100:50
"war widows," unmarried mothers, divorcees, refugees
Kolinsky article: lived practice vs. legal practice (custom vs. law)
Basic Law, art. 3: equality guaranteed in principle "men and women have equal rights"
but also: promise of "protection ofthe family" (which one?)
1950s
1970s
Issues (Frevert article)
attitudes ("Befreit den sozialistischen Eminenzen von ihren bürgerlichen Schwänzen")
marriage
employment
politics / organizations ("Lila Kuschelecke")
household work/management
child care
abortion ("Mein Bauch gehört mir")
divorce (presumption of "guilt," and consequences)