In the service of youth? The life, activity and political views of Dr. Jutta Rüdiger, the leader of the Bund Deutscher
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W służbie młodzieży? Życie, działalność i poglądy polityczne dr Jutty Rüdiger, przywódczyni Bund Deutscher Mädel (1910-2001)
In the service of youth? The life, activity and political views of Dr. Jutta Rüdiger, the leader of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (1910-2001)

Author(s): Katarzyna Jedynakiewicz-Mróz
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego
Keywords: Jutta Rüdiger; BDM; German women in Third Reich

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the life, the public activity and the political views of Jutta Rüdiger, the leader of Nazi organization Union of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM). The text consists of two parts: biographic and analytical. In the biographic one the main stages of Rüdiger`s life are shown: youth (1910-1933), the period of the activity in BDM (1933-1945) and the career and public activity after the Second World War (1945-2001). The main problems of the presentation were: the conditioning of the politicalchoices of Rüdiger, the specificity of her work as a leader of BDM and her professional as well as publicactivity after 1945. In analytical part of the article the main elements of an outlook of life of Rüdiger were considered, in the context of their influence on Rüdiger`s political attitude after the war. The source base of the presentation and of the analysis were the memoirs of Rüdiger and her „BDM good name defense” published as a book-disclaimer (Richtigstellung).

  • Issue Year: 367/2018
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 193-224
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: English, Polish