Reed, Rebecca2009-08-282009-08-2820092009-08-28http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1686Helma Sanders-Brahms’ film Deutschland, bleiche Mutter is an important contribution to (West) German cinema and to the discourse of Vergangenheitsbewältigung or “the struggle to come to terms with the Nazi past” and arguably the first film of New German Cinema to take as its central plot a German woman’s gendered experiences of the Second World War and its aftermath. In her film, Deutschland, bleiche Mutter, Helma Sanders-Brahms uses a variety of narrative and cinematic techniques to give voice to the frequently neglected history of non-Jewish German women’s war and post-war experiences.enAvailable to the World Wide WebNew German CinemaDeutschland, bleiche MutterGermany, Pale MotherVergangenheitsbewältigungcoming to terms with the pastNew SubjectivityWest German women’s autobiographical filmsgendered experiences of warnarrative cinematic techniquesintergenerational dialogueRäuberbräutigamRobber BridegroompostmemorySecond World WarUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social SciencesThesis