Rita Thalmann

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Rita Thalmann ( June 23, 1926 in Nuremberg - August 18, 2013 ) was a French historian who mainly dealt with National Socialism .

Life

Rita Thalmann was born as the daughter of the Nuremberg textile wholesaler Nathan Thalmann and his wife Helene. Hausmann born in Basel . Both parents were devout Jews . Although Nathan Thalmann was awarded the Iron Cross in World War I, the family was forced to emigrate after the Nazis came to power in Germany and the subsequent discrimination against the Jewish population. She came to France via Switzerland, where she settled in Dijon . At the beginning of the Second World War , Nathan Thalmann was interned as a foreigner, and his wife died shortly afterwards in a hospital in Dijon. Rita was able to flee to the unoccupied zone with her older brother Alfred and go into hiding in the Grenoble area . The father was deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 . The children managed to come to Switzerland illegally , where they finally found support from their mother's parents.

After 1945 Rita Thalmann passed her Abitur in Strasbourg and then studied German at the Sorbonne in Paris. After the Agrégation , she taught in a grammar school for 15 years. She finally received her doctorate with the thesis Protestantisme et nationalisme en Allemagne de 1900 à 1945 (Thèse d'Etat) and then taught at the University of Tours . She moved to the University of Paris VII , where she taught as Professeure d'histoire et de civilization germanique until her retirement . Her research areas were National Socialism, the Shoah and the Second World War, as well as the position of women in society.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • with Emmanuel Feinemann: La Nuit de cristal. Laffont, Paris 1972, (In German: Die Kristallnacht. Jüdischer Verlag bei Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-00398-7 ).
  • Jochen Klepper. A life between idylls and catastrophes. Christian Kaiser, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-459-01110-6 (several editions).
  • Être femme sous le IIIe Reich. R. Laffont, Laffont, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-221-00859-6 (In German: Frauein im Third Reich. Carl Hanser, Munich et al. 1984, ISBN 3-446-13579-0 ).
  • La République de Weimar (= Que sais-je? 2300). Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-13-039449-3 (several editions).
  • as editor: Femmes et Fascismes. Tierce, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-903144-38-9 .
  • as editor: La tentation nationaliste 1914–1945. = Entre émancipation et nationalisme. La presse féminine d'Europe 1914–1945. Deuxtemps Tierce, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-903144-59-1 .
  • La mise au pas. Idéologie et stratégie sécuritaire dans la France occupée. Fayard, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-213-02623-8 (In German language: Gleichschaltung in Frankreich. 1940–1944. European publishing company, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-434-50062-6 ).
  • with Jean-Louis Huot and Dominique Valbelle: Naissance des cités. Nathan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-09-294150-X .
  • Protestantisme et nationalisme en Allemagne. (de 1900 à 1945). D'après des itinéraires spirituels de Gustav Frenssen, Walter Flex, Jochen Klepper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (= Dialogues des Nations. 1). Klincksieck, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-252-01885-2 .
  • Tout commença à Nuremberg. Entre histoire et mémoire. Berg International, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-911289-64-1 (autobiography).

literature

Web links

Articles and lectures by Rita Thalmann online

personal data
SURNAME Thalmann, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 2013