Hitler's furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields

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Title:

Author:

Lower, Wendy, author.

ISBN:

9780099572282

Personal Author:

Lower, Wendy, author.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 20 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2013.

Abstract:

History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal cheerleader for the Fuhrer. This book tells the untold story of the Holocaust and how ordinary women took part in genocide.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.

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Summary

A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front.

History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal cheerleader for the F hrer. However, Lower's research reveals an altogether more sinister truth.

Lower shows us the ordinary women who became perpetrators of genocide. Drawing on decades of research, she uncovers a truth that has been in the shadows - that women too were brutal killers and that, in ignoring women's culpability, we have ignored the reality of the Holocaust.

'Shocking' Sunday Times

'Compelling' Washington Post

'Pioneering' Literary Review