Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich

Claudia Schoppmann

October, 1996
Cloth, 176 pages, 30 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-10220-9
$40.50 / £24.00

This pathbreaking book is the first in-depth look at lesbians during the Third Reich available in English. Through a series of interviews,Days of Masquerade presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. The women Claudia Schoppmann interviewed and others whose lives she reconstructs took very different paths under the Nazi regime. Some emerged from explicitly political backgrounds and became opponents of the Reich, some left Germany for political or personal reasons, some found ways to survive through networks of friendship and mutual assistance, and one even managed to cooperate with the regime. For students of lesbian and gay studies, women's studies, and modern German history, Schoppmann's work opens up new roads for further research and is a bold reminder of the forgotten victims of the Third Reich.

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies

Series

• Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

About the Author

Claudia Schoppmann is a writer on German women's history. She is the author ofNationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualitaet(1991), on Nazi politics and female homosexuality, and coeditor ofNach der sho geborren(1994), on second generation Jewish women in Germany. She lives in Berlin and works for Geschichtswerkstatt, a local history project. Allison Brown has translated several books, including with Belinda Cooper, H. Bredekamp's Anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany (1995), as well as numerous articles and papers. She lives in Berlin.

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