Hitler's furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields
(2013)
By:
Lower, Wendy
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.5318/LOWER,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2013
DESCRIPTION
xi, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780547863382 (hbk.), 0547863381 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The lost generation of German women -- The East needs you -- Witnesses -- Accomplices -- Perpetrators -- Why did they kill? -- What happened to them?
A history of German women in the Holocaust reveals their roles as plunderers, witnesses, and actual executioners on the Eastern front, describing how nurses, teachers, secretaries, and wives responded to what they believed to be Nazi opportunities only to perform brutal duties