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C H A P T E R 3
T H E S C H O O L G I R L R E P O R T S A N D T H E GUILTY P L E A S U R E

O F H I S T O R Y
Jennifer Fay

INTRODUCTION

Barbara Koster, a feminist and student activist in the German New Left, reflects on the connection
between adolescent rebellion and historical consciousness in 1960s Germany:

I was raised in the Adenauer years, a time dominated by a horrible moral conformism, against
which we naturally rebelled. We wanted to flee from the white Sunday gloves, to run from
the way one had to hide the fingernails behind the back if they weren't above reproach.
Finally then we threw away our bras as well. ... For a long time I had severe altercations with
my parents and fought against the fascist heritage they forced on me. At first I rejected their
authoritarian and puritanical conception of child-rearing, but soon we came into conflict over
a more serious topic: the persecution of the Jews. I identified with the Jews, because I felt
myself to be persecuted by my family.1

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