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Book

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

Call Number

  • 940.5318 L9177 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Physical Description

270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Wendy Lower's account of the role of German women on the Eastern Front-not only as plunderers and witnesses but as actual killers-powerfully revises history. Lower, drawing on twenty years of research and fieldwork, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women took part in the shooting of Jews and uncovers the stories of SS wives-with children of their own-whose brutality is as chilling as any in history.

Contents

  • The Lost Generation of German Women
  • 2. The East Needs You
  • 3. Witnesses
  • 4. Accomplices
  • 5. Perpetrators
  • 6. Why Did They Kill?
  • 7. What Happened to Them?

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