Wartime Relations: Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945

ISBN-13: 9780198817222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Maren Röger; Rachel Ward

Opis

During the Second World War, all contact between German soldiers and Polish women was officially banned. However, sexual encounters frequently took place: some consensual, others characterised by brutal violence. Historian Maren Röger gives a powerful account of these relationships.

Recenzje

Providing new insights into the everyday life of the German occupation, Maren R"oger's monograph makes an important contribution to modern Polish history.

O autorze

Maren Röger is Associate Professor for German and Central European History at the University of Augsburg and Head of the Bucovina-Institute there. From 2010 to 2015, she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute (Poland). In 2014, she won the highly-regarded Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for the German edition of Wartime Relations: Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945, followed in 2016 by the Geisteswissenschaften International Sonderpreis. She has published several books as well as articles in renowned academic journals, including Contemporary European History, European Review of History, Historische Zeitschrift, and Gender & History.