Melita Maschmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German writer (1918-2010)
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Melita Maschmann
- Melita Maschmann (1918–2010) was a German memoirist.
- She achieved renown with her 1963 book Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch (lit: "Account Rendered: No Attempt at Justification") which recounted her years as a member of the Hitler Youth and a propagandist for the Nazi machine. The book was translated into English by Geoffrey Strachan as Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self, and published as an eBook in 2013 by Plunkett Lake Press.
- Maschmann never married and had no children.
- For the last ten years of her life, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
- Maschmann's life was portrayed in the documentary Teenage (2013) where she was played by Ivy Blackshire.
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