Archive for March, 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

My German grandmother who had children between 1898 and 1906, used to talk about the new 20th century as being the “year of the child.” She said the child-raising ideas were more liberal than the way she was raised. I wonder if the childcare theories were different again by the 1929′s?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The editor’s intension is to have categories of interest which registered users can click on, read the relevant parts of the Rundbrief, and then comment if they choose to. When the Rundbrief is uploaded, this activity will be possible. We are working on making the Rundbrief available. mvp

Mothers of the Nation

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The blog Mothersofthenation hopes to start a discussion on aspects of the history of “women’s professions” in Weimar and Nazi Germany, as experienced by a small group of alumni of a Hamburg Frauenschule. The core and launching pad of the blog is constituted by a Rundbrief connecting 12 women graduates of the school. Started in [...]