The situation in nazi Germany of a Jewish male married to an "aryan" female vs Jewish female married to an "aryan" male?
score:2
The protest on Rosenstrasse was afaik uniformly Jewish males being held and non-Jewish wives protesting their imprisonment — why was there not a single case even in this protest of a Jewish wife being imprisoned? (Unless of course there was.)
Maybe five to ten percent ("a bit more than hundred women among a lot more than thousand men") of those imprisoned in Rosenstraße were women, according to a footnote in this paper by Wolf Gruner (Wolf Gruner: Die Fabrik-Aktion und die Ereignisse in der Berliner Rosenstraße: Fakten und Fiktionen um den 27. Februar 1943. In: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 11 (2002), p. 137–177):
Selbst wenn weniger Frauen als Männer aus „Mischehen“ in der Industrie tätig waren, da sie öfter als „privilegiert“ eingestuft wurden, ist der geringe Anteil von wenig mehr als hundert Frauen bei weit mehr als tausend Männern nicht schlüssig.
(footnote 130 on p.162)
Gruner rejects the notion that what happened at Rosenstraße was a mass protest in the way that is sometimes depicted in the media, but he also points out that men participated and gives a hint why there were few male participants (emphasis mine):
Es warteten dort auch Männer, einige sogar in Uniform.
There were also men waiting there, some even in uniform.
(p.169)
Those held in Rosenstraße in March 1943 had been rounded up in Berlin during the Fabrikaktion on February 27th (which was a Germany-wide roundup of Jewish forced labour workers). Note that not all Jewish spouses from mixed marriages in Berlin were rounded up during the Fabrikaktion, and of those who had been rounded up, not all were imprisoned in Rosenstraße. One tragic example here. Gruner implies that the share of women among Jewish spouses in mixed marriages in Berlin was actually considerably higher than five to ten percent.
it makes me wonder if the predominant case in most mixed marriages was that the male was Jewish
Yes, according to wikipedia, in about three in four mixed marriages, the husband was Jewish. Some well-known counterexamples were Heinz Rühmann (divorced in 1938), Veit Harlan(!) (in the 1920s), Joachim Gottschalk (suicide in 1941). Hans Albers was not married, but in a long-running relationship.
one would have thought that in a racist dictatorship, beyond merely encouraging divorce, it would have been mandated in almost all cases
This was actually under discussion again and again, but (due to expected opposition from the church?) it was never implemented. Jewish spouses from mixed marriages were actually in some instances deported and killed anyway. And starting in early 1945 all Jews from mixed marriages were supposed to be deported to Theresienstadt.
More post
- 📝 What are the French gains after the American Revolutionary War
- 📝 How do kings secure their treasury?
- 📝 Did Jim Morrison ever comment on his father's career choice or role in the Vietnam war?
- 📝 Was Transylvania autonomous within Hungary before 1526?
- 📝 What's the Ancient Egyptian word for "benedict"?
- 📝 What are Kottabos players holding in their left hand?
- 📝 US Citizenship Prior to the 14th Amendment
- 📝 Missing link in the German tank development?
- 📝 Were metal purities in coins well known and standardized by the 1500s?
- 📝 Did the "unexpectedness" of key events argue against a "third strike" at Pearl Harbor?
- 📝 What was the timetable for Germany's Invasion of the Low Countries (Fall Gelb) in WW2?
- 📝 What is the etymological origin of the Marsi, the ancient Italic people?
- 📝 What was the first known war in history?
- 📝 Was there a plan from the USSR to invade Germany before Barbarossa?
- 📝 Is this accusation in the Declaration of Independence factual?
- 📝 How were cattle cut out in the 19th century?
- 📝 Was the site of Rome and Constantinople chosen for featuring "seven hills"?
- 📝 Do historians use Rig Veda as a reliable source of historical event?
- 📝 How much time would it take to mobilize an army during WW2?
- 📝 What was the purpose for Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to Jerusalem?
- 📝 Did the Roman testudo protect the sides of the formation?
- 📝 Who is the oldest ruler whose remains can be positively identified?
- 📝 Did Hannibal's elephants wear protective footwear?
- 📝 Demonym for someone from the kingdom of D'mt
- 📝 During the Great Depression, roughly what proportion of Americans lived below the World Bank PPP $1.25/day poverty line?
- 📝 What is the origin of Americans sometimes refering to the Second World War "the Good War"?
- 📝 To what extent has ideographic script contributed to the unification of China？
- 📝 Why did Hitler not invade Sweden?
- 📝 Was the Night of the Long Knives principally a means to obtain loyalty of the German military leadership?
- 📝 Did barracks exist in the middle ages?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 The situation in nazi Germany of a Jewish male married to an "aryan" female vs Jewish female married to an "aryan" male?
- 📝 Was the option of setting up a Jewish state in defeated Nazi Germany ever considered?
- 📝 Did Churchill and Roosevelt know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or the following secret pacts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
- 📝 How did the civilian population of Nazi Germany react to Operation Overlord?
- 📝 From 1936-45 what was the prescribed punishment in Nazi Germany for failing to join or participate in the Hitler Youth?
- 📝 Could a citizen in Nazi Germany sue the government or doctors over the eugenics program?
- 📝 How economically profitable for Nazi Germany were the occupied countries in Western Europe?
- 📝 Did Nazi Germany use chemical weapons on the battlefield?
- 📝 How influential was the Jewish boycott against Nazi Germany?
- 📝 Is Nazi brutality particularly well known in the US because of the US's Jewish population?
- 📝 What was the area of Nazi Germany at its height?
- 📝 Did Nazi Germany suffer hyperinflation during the war? Why or why not?
- 📝 How did Nazi Germany justify the attempted invasion of Britain?
- 📝 Did the Jewish Temple influence Nazi architecture?
- 📝 Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
- 📝 Why didn't France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939?
- 📝 Why, in the US, is Japanese brutality ignored compared with the Nazi brutality in WW2?
- 📝 How did Nazi Germany finance itself during WW2?
- 📝 Did Imperial Japan choose to ally with Nazi Germany because of ideological similarity?
- 📝 Why were so many more Jewish men than Jewish women killed during the Holocaust?
- 📝 Why did Germany officially acknowledge the contents of the Zimmerman telegram?
- 📝 Why does German money from the 1940s not bear Nazi symbols?
- 📝 What did Germany do in World War II about the different rail gauge in the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What was the purpose of Nazi extermination camps?
- 📝 How did Nazi Germany produce such an impressive portfolio of officers for WW2?
- 📝 Why did Italy abandon its alliance with Germany in WW1 and join the Allied side?
- 📝 Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
- 📝 Did Arab policymakers have plans for the Jewish population, in case of victory in 1948 War?
- 📝 Historically, why did the US station their nuclear weapons in Germany for delivery through German pilots?
- 📝 Why did Germany not join the United Nations until 1973?