Melita Maschmann

{{Short description|German writer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1918|1|10}}

| birth_place = Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

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| occupation = Memoirist

| nationality = German

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| subject = Life in the Hitler Youth, Nazism

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| notableworks = Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch

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Melita Maschmann (January 10, 1918 – February 4, 2010) was a German memoirist.[https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/i-was-a-nazi-and-heres-why.html Profile] She achieved renown with her 1963 book Fazit: Kein Rechtfertigungsversuch (lit: "Conclusion: 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 [http://plunkettlakepress.com/ar.html Plunkett Lake Press].

Maschmann never married and had no children. For the last ten years of her life, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease.Epstein, Helen, "I was a Nazi and here is Why," The New Yorker, May 29, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/i-was-a-nazi-and-heres-why Maschmann's life was portrayed in the documentary Teenage (2013) where she was played by Ivy Blackshire.{{Cite web|url=http://teenagefilm.com/archives/teenage-film/ivy-blackshire-as-melita-maschmann/|title = Ivy Blackshire as Melita Maschmann|date = 8 September 2014}}