
Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
- 264 pages
- English
- PDF
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Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
About this book
Historical consensus is largely unanimous in viewing the German nobility under the Weimar Republic as completely enthralled by fascism. In this enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein and his family, Hammerstein's Daughters provides an important counter example to this paradigm. A staunch opponent of Hitler and his policies, Kurt von Hammerstein's daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, notably renounced their status and privileges, enabling resistance to the Nazi regime through their support of persecuted Jews and the KPD intelligence service. By documenting the heroic efforts of these overlooked women, Gottfried Paasche offers a fascinating view of his family's personal history which spotlights an alternative story of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion under National Socialism.
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Table of contents
- Hammerstein’s Daughters
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 — A Wedding in the Bendler Block
- Chapter 2 — Life in Imperial Germany
- Chapter 3 — Seven Years of Peace
- Chapter 4 — No Short War
- Chapter 5 — Turmoil in Berlin
- Chapter 6 — A New World
- Chapter 7 — Kassel
- Chapter 8 — Magdeburg
- Chapter 9 — Back in Berlin
- Chapter 10 — The Wandervogel
- Chapter 11 — In the Political Network
- Chapter 12 — Diving Headfirst into Fascism
- Chapter 13 — Hammerstein’s Safe
- Chapter 14 — Jochen Paasche
- Chapter 15 — Hammerstein’s Resignation
- Chapter 16 — Palestine
- Chapter 17 — Farewell Kiss
- Chapter 18 — Just before the War
- Chapter 19 — In Japan
- Chapter 20 — Endangered Existence
- Chapter 21 — War Again
- Chapter 22 — Life during the War
- Chapter 23 — War’s End and a New Beginning
- Chapter 24 — Escape from Japan
- Epilogue
- A Personal Postscript
- Sources and Literature
- Index