Background
Owings, Alison June was born on June 17, 1944 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Brown and Alice Case (Roberts) Owings.
( What were the women of Germany doing during the Third R...)
What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later? In Frauen we hear their voices––most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor. Hiding a Jewish friend. Witnessing "Kristallnacht." Witnessing the firebombing of Dresden. Shooting at Allied planes. Welcoming Allied troops. Being a prisoner. And being a guard. The women recall their own and others' enthusiasm, doubt, fear, fury, cowardice, guilt, and anguish. Alison Owings, in her pursuit of such memories, was invited into the homes of these women. Because she is neither Jewish nor German, and because she speaks fluent colloquial German, many of the women she interviewed felt comfortable enough with her to unlock the past. What they have to say will surprise Americans, just as they surprised the women themselves. Not since Marcel Ophuls's controversial film The Sorrow and the Pity have we been on such intimate terms with "the enemy." In this case, the story is that of the women, those who did not make policy but were forced to participate in its effects and to witness its results. What they did and did not do is not just a reflection on them and their country––it also leads us to question what actions we might have taken in their place. The interviews do not allow for easy, smug answers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813522005/?tag=2022091-20
Owings, Alison June was born on June 17, 1944 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Brown and Alice Case (Roberts) Owings.
Student, Freiburg University, Germany, 1964—1965. Bachelor, American University, 1966.
Writer, researcher Congressional Quarterly, Washington, 1966. Researcher Democratic National Committee, 1966—1967. News assistant ABC, 1967—1969.
Associate producer documentary series WRC, 1969—1971. Associate producer W National Broadcasting Company television, New York City, 1971—1973. Television newswriter Columbia Broadcasting System television, 1973—1977, 1980—1985.
Freelance editor Mill Valley, since 1999.
( What were the women of Germany doing during the Third R...)
Founder Don't Tear It Down (now District of Columbia Preservation League), Washington, 1971.
Married Jonathan Brittain Perdue, May 1, 1993.