Thursday, June 22, 2023

Sadly, these patriarchal ideals still sound all too familiar.

"Most of all, she was a prodigious mother"

~ James Wyllie

"What We Can Learn About Nazi Psychology From the Wives of Hitler’s Top Officials"

https://time.com/5910807/nazi-wives/

"It’s hard to assess how Gerda felt about such degrading treatment. She’d didn’t fight back. She didn’t seek help. She didn’t confide in anybody. Based on her Nazi ideology, Gerda believed it was her duty to obey her husband, and there’s every indication that she was truly devoted to Bormann. As far as her children were concerned, Gerda happily played with them, sang songs, drew pictures and read stories: it was their father’s job to discipline and punish them."

~ Jane Wyllie

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