Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self
by Melita Maschmann
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"Account Rendered was first published in Germany in 1963 as Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch or Account Rendered: No attempt at justification. Maschmann wrote to Hannah Arendt that her intent in writing this memoir was to help her former Nazi colleagues think about their actions, and to help others "better understand" why people like her had been drawn to Hitler. Written as a letter to an unnamed Jewish girl, this memoir details the trajectory of a socially-conscious, well-educated, show more middle-class girl as she joins the Hitler Youth, supervises the eviction of Polish farmers from their land and works in the high echelons of Nazi press and propaganda. Arrested in 1945 at the age of 33, Maschmann completed mandatory de-Nazification and became a freelance journalist. This edition includes a new introduction explaining how the Publishers identified Maschmann's high school Jewish friend, Marianne Schweitzer Burkenroad, born in 1918 and located her in California. In an afterword, she recounts for the first time her friendship with Maschmann and her reactions to Account Rendered."--Publisher description show lessTags
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Incredibly disturbing--how a relatively normal person got involved with the Nazis, rationalizing the genocides and criminality.
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In recent years, many victims of violence have written memoirs in which they seek out and confront the perpetrators who harmed them. The opposite is rare. Few perpetrators seek out their victims, let alone write books about them. But fifty years ago this month, Melita Maschmann, a former Nazi, published just such a book.
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- Original title
- Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch
- Original publication date
- 1963
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 943.0860924 — History & geography History of Europe Germany and neighboring central European countries Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945 History, geographic treatment, biography Biographies, Diaries And Journals
- LCC
- DD253.48 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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