Memoir and memory : the papers of a pre-war German - Alfred HuhnhĂ€user, 1885 to 1950
The personal archive of Dr Alfred HuhnhĂ€user (1885-1950), a German civil servant, is examined with regard to this thesis. The archive consists of an unfinished personal memoir, Aus einem reichen Leben, five chapters of a political memoir concerning HuhnhĂ€user's time in Norway during the German occupation, publications edited by HuhnhĂ€user and other personal documents. A full catalogue of the contents of the archive has been included in this thesis. An attempt has been made to identify the significance of the HuhnhĂ€user archive within a literary framework and, therefore, a brief analysis of the study of autobiographical writings has been undertaken. The importance of the archive within the context of social history has also been stressed, for HuhnhĂ€user was an ~ordinary~ German and not one of the Great and the Good. The personal memoirs operate on three levels - personal, worldstage and cultural- and extracts from the archive have been used to illustrate this. A brief historical summary of events in Norway prior to and immediately after the German occupation is given in order to place the events described by HuhnhĂ€user in context. The contents of the personal and political memoirs are summarized and analyzed
Martin, Caroline
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German ; Norway--History--German occupation, 1940-1945 ; Huhnhauser, A. (Alfred) 1885-1950
Memoir and memory : the papers of a pre-war German - Alfred HuhnhĂ€user, 1885 to 1950. The personal archive of Dr Alfred HuhnhĂ€user (1885-1950), a German civil servant, is examined with regard to this thesis. The archive consists of an unfinished personal memoir, Aus einem reichen Leben, five chapters of a political memoir concerning HuhnhĂ€user's time in Norway during the German occupation, publications edited by HuhnhĂ€user and other personal documents. A full catalogue of the contents of the archive has been included in this thesis. An attempt has been made to identify the significance of the HuhnhĂ€user archive within a literary framework and, therefore, a brief analysis of the study of autobiographical writings has been undertaken. The importance of the archive within the context of social history has also been stressed, for HuhnhĂ€user was an ~ordinary~ German and not one of the Great and the Good. The personal memoirs operate on three levels - personal, worldstage and cultural- and extracts from the archive have been used to illustrate this. A brief historical summary of events in Norway prior to and immediately after the German occupation is given in order to place the events described by HuhnhĂ€user in context. The contents of the personal and political memoirs are summarized and analyzed
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