Front leave
A soldier who fights on the front in a war can receive leave from the front (or home leave ) . He is relieved of his position and can take vacation for a fixed period of time . Usually the soldier has to fight at the front again after the end of the vacation. Reasons for leave from the front are illness, family celebrations, injuries, marriage and special reasons such as special jobs.
The leave from the front fulfilled an important social function in World War II , during which many soldiers were in combat zones for years.
Front vacation in the film
Vacation from the front was a common theme in feature films from the Nazi era . Relevant examples include a .:
- Vacation on word of honor (1938)
- Request concert (1940)
- Six days home leave (1941)
- Goodbye, Franziska (1941)
- Front Theater (1942)
- Great Love (1942)
- Two in a Big City (1942)
- Crew of Dora (1943)
- A Nice Day (1943)
- A Little Summer Melody (1944)
For his film A Woman for Three Days (1943/1944) Fritz Kirchhoff put the front vacation issue in a peacetime package; In an escapist way, the Second World War is systematically left out here and the brief visit by a man associated with a love story is motivated purely civilly.
literature
- Christian Packheiser: Home leave: soldiers between the front, family and the Nazi regime . Göttingen: Wallstein 2020, ISBN 978-3835336759
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Lowry: Home Front Films, Thoughts on the Historical Relation of a Small Genre in the Nazi Era . In: montage AV. Journal of Theory and History of Audiovisual Communication . tape 23 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 123–146 ., Doi : 10.25969 / mediarep / 455 ( online [PDF]).