Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich.

This pathbreaking book is the first in-depth look at lesbians during the Third Reich available in English. Through a series of interviews, Days of Masquerade presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. The women Claudia Schoppmann interviewed and others whose lives she reconstructs took very different paths under the Nazi regime. Some emerged from explicitly political backgrounds and became opponents of the Reich, some left Germany for political or personal reasons, some found ways to survive through networks of friendship and mutual assistance, and one even managed to cooperate with the regime. For students of lesbian and gay studies, women's studies, and modern German history, Schoppmann's work opens up new roads for further research and is a bold reminder of the forgotten victims of the Third Reich.