The Politics of Family Secrecy
A Research Blog
Martina Koegeler-Abdi Anecdotes, gossip, and hearsay are not sources in a scholarly sense. However, we should not entirely dismiss or ignore that they may play a role in informal knowledge production that can shape researchers’ relations to their subjects— for better or worse. As researchers looking into the politics of family secrecy in 20th century …
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Reflections on Family Secrecy around Danish German Children Born of War Martina Koegeler-Abdi Danish mothers often hid the identity of a biological father from their child, if the father in question was a German soldier during the WWII Occupation. Even as adults many of these children born of war (chibows) did not know about their …
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