Jews, Germans, and Allies : close encounters in occupied Germany PDF
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Jews, Germans, and Allies Jews, Germans, and Allies CLOSE ENCOUNTERS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY Atina Grossmann PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright©2007byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,6OxfordStreet, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201TW AllRightsReserved Thirdprinting,andfirstpaperbackprinting,2009 PaperbackISBN:978-0-691-14317-0 TheLibraryofCongresshascatalogedtheclothedition ofthisbookasfollows Grossmann,Atina. Jews,Germans,andAllies:closeencountersinoccupiedGermany/ AtinaGrossmann. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-691-08971-3(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Jews—Germany—History—1945–1990. 2. Holocaust survivors— Germany—History—20thcentury.3.Jews—Germany—Politicsand government—20thcentury.4.Germany—Ethnicrelations.I.Title. DS134.26.G762007 940.53′1814—dc22 2007019952 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabon Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 In memory of Toni Bernhard Busse, 1884–1943? Gertrud Dewitz Grossmann, 1873–1943? Contents ListofIllustrations ix Preface:WhereIsFeldafing? xiii Abbreviations xvii INTRODUCTION EntangledHistoriesandCloseEncounters 1 CHAPTERONE “PoorGermany”:BerlinandtheOccupation 15 CHAPTERTWO GenderedDefeat:Rape,Motherhood,andFraternization 48 CHAPTERTHREE “Thesurvivorswerefewandthedeadweremany”: JewsinOccupiedBerlin 88 CHAPTERFOUR TheSavedandSavingRemnant: JewishDisplacedPersonsintheAmericanZone 131 CHAPTERFIVE MirZaynenDo:Sex,Work,andtheDPBabyBoom 184 CHAPTERSIX Conclusion:The“Interregnum”Ends 237 AbbreviationsinNotes 269 Notes 271 SelectBibliography 359 Acknowledgments 369 Index 373 Illustrations Fig.1.1. Berlin,May1945.Privatecollection,Heinrich Busse/AtinaGrossmann. 14 Fig.1.2. GeneralEisenhower’smessageinEnglishandGerman onasigninfrontofaU.S.militaryinstallation, Berlin,1945.USHMM,courtesyofAvivaKempner. 26 Fig.1.3. AmericanandSovietsoldiersinfrontofStalin portrait, Unter den Linden, Berlin, 1945. USHMM, courtesyofAvivaKempner. 29 Fig.2.1. CoverofAmericannovelTheBigRape,published 1951.Privatecollection,AtinaGrossmann. 47 Fig.2.2. Germancivilianwomenandchildrensitonsteps ofabombed-outbuilding.USHMM. 81 Fig.3.1. JewishCommunityofBerlin,certificationassomeone of the “mosaic” faith, who had worn the “yellow star”andsurvivedasan“illegal.”Privatecollection, HeinrichBusse/AtinaGrossmann. 87 Fig.3.2. MagistratoftheCityofBerlin,certificationasa “victim of fascism.” Private collection, Heinrich Busse/AtinaGrossmann. 87 Fig.3.3. Berlin police commissioner, certification as resident. Privatecollection,HeinrichBusse/AtinaGrossmann. 87 Fig.3.4. Jewishmaninconcentrationcampuniformmakes applicationforclothing,Berlin.PhotoGerhard Gronefeld, reprinted by permission of Deutsches HistorischesMuseum. 103 Fig.3.5. PassoverSederforAlliedsoldiersandBerlinJewsand Jewish DPs, presided over by U.S. Army chaplain RabbiHerbertFriedman,RathausScho¨neberg,April 1946.PhotoGerhardGronefeld,reprintedby permissionofDeutschesHistorischesMuseum. 117 Fig.3.6. Two young friends on motorcycle, Schlachtensee DP camp,Berlin.USHMM,courtesyofNatalieGonenn. 121 Fig.4.1. “Wearehere”:YoungDPsonbenchatWannseeS BahnStation,Berlin.USHMM,courtesyofLucy GliklichBreitbart. 130
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