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Ruinen der Erinnerung : Die Suche nach der österreichischen Trümmerfrau
Martin Tschiggerl
2025
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The so-called “rubble women” have become a fixture in the memory politics of the immediate post-war period: armed with shovels, aprons, and headscarves, they cleared the streets of the federal capital Vienna of the rubble of war—at least according to the popular narrative. In reality, however, it was primarily former Nazis who had been conscripted into forced labor who did the vast majority of the manual rubble clearance work. This book focuses on how this legally mandated penitential labor
subsequently gave rise to a specifically Austrian “rubble women”
myth.
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