Irmina by Barbara Yelin6/6/2023 ![]() How could a young German post-suffragette proto-feminist go from being fiercely, desperately in love with a black man from Barbados and openly mocking Herr Hitler in the streets to working in the Reichskriegsministerium and chiding non-gung-ho friends with threats of reporting (I show some of this evolution in the accompanying pictures). ![]() Still, how could that young woman of raucous attitude and vivacious heart be tens years later passively complicit in the Nazi machine, buying into (to some degree at least) the promise of volksgemeinschaft? She is of course young and with youth comes naivete, willfulness, self-righteousness, and a colossal kind of self-centered ignorance. From that box grew the story of Irmina, a young woman who in 1934 was living abroad in London, gaining skills and forging a path for a future in which she could grab anything she wanted for herself as well as any man could. How? How! How on earth could Nazi Germany have been allowed, been encouraged?Ī few years back Barbara Yelin discovered a box of her grandmother's letters and diaries. The fact of Nazi Germany haunts the 20th century (and even still the 21st century) like a particularly strident and pernicious spectre. Daily Graphic Novel Recommendation 15 Irmina ![]()
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