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"Women in the Third Reich takes a fresh and critical look at the work of recent experts on the social history of the Third Reich and, in particular, highlights the role of women as actors on the historical stage." "Included is a critical discussion of the legacy of the Nazi regime for women and the women's movement in post-1945 Germany." "A variety of previously unavailable primary sources (including party records, newspaper articles and women's testimonies and memories) are used, making Women in the Third Reich essential reading for anyone interested in the social history of Nazi and post-war Germany."--BOOK JACKET

This article examines the expulsion of Germans abroad (Auslandsdeutsche) from Allied countries and colonial empires in the aftermath of the First World War, and their somewhat negative reception in Weimar Germany in 1919-20. It does so against the background of what it identifies as a re-territorialisation of German national identity, beginning during the war itself and leading to an abrupt reversal of previous trends towards the inclusion of Germans abroad within broader transnational notions of Germanness (Deutschtum), rights to citizenship and aspirations to world power status. Re-territorialisation was not born out of the logic of de-territorialisation and Weltpolitik in any dialectical sense, however. Rather, its causes were largely circumstantial: the outbreak of global war in 1914, the worldwide economic and naval blockade of Imperial Germany, and its final defeat in 1918. Nonetheless, its implications were substantial, particularly for the way in which minority German groups living beyond Germany's new borders were constructed in official and non-official discourses in the period after 1919-20.