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Language, gender, and Fascism : reconstructing histories in Three Guineas, Der Mann auf der Kanzel, and Kindheitsmuster / Marie-Luis G(c)Þttens -- Witness, critic, victim : Irmgard Keun and the years of National Socialism / Ritta Jo Horsley -- From German journalist to Argentine exile : Doris Dauber and the Nazi years / Olga Elaine Rojer -- The case of Luise Rinser : a past that will not die / Diana Orendi Hinze -- Autobiography, gender, and the Third Reich : Eva Zeller, Carola Stern, and Christabel Bielenberg / Elaine Martin -- "I wash tears and sweat out of old moss" : remembrance of the Holocaust in the poetry of Sarah Kirsch / Barbara Mabee -- Resisting silence : Brigitte Schwaiger and Elisabeth Reichart attempt to confront the past / Maria-Regina Kecht -- Fathers, daughters, and the Nazi past : father literature and its (resisting) readers / Susan G. Figge

Eva Zeller is best known for her two autobiographical works, Solange ich denken kann (1981), which centers on the author's troubled relationship with her domineering father, and Nein und Amen (1985), which focuses on a love relationship doomed by the war. Both relationships are portrayed against the backdrop of ever-encroaching Nazi policies. Zeller investigates not only the difficulties of adolescence, here intensified by the additional stress of National Socialism and a world war, but also the possible connections between patriarchal values and attitudes, sexism, and the rise of fascist and totalitarian states.

In recent years a growing body of literature has examined the peculiar features of human service organizations and the difficulties which these pose for their administrators. This paper begins by reviewing recent writings on this subject, noting the differing emphases emerging from social welfare and public administration backgrounds respectively.The definition of human service organizations is then reconsidered, suggesting that it is useful to examine their characteristics in terms of two clusters of features: one related to their public source of mandate and resources, and the other related to the nature of the services they provide. A proposed definition based on these two clusters of features makes explicit two characteristics generally assumed in previous definitions of human service organizations; their purpose of meeting socially recognized needs, and the relatively powerless position of their clients. The definition proposed, rather than setting categorical boundaries, provides a model against which the features of a variety of organizations which wholly or partly fit it may be examined.The implications of the identified features of human service organizations for their administration are considered briefly, with particular reference to such problematic issues as the clarification of goals, the rights of consumers and the evaluation of services. It is suggested that the training and development of administrators for human service organizations must be based on an understanding of the particular difficulties and challenges arising from the nature of these organizations.