Wendy Lower

Hitler's Furies (eBook, ePUB)

German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This "intriguing and chilling" WWII history follows thirteen ordinary German women who worked-and killed-on the Eastern Front (Chicago Tribune). A National Book Award Finalist Drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, Wendy Lower introduces thirteen women who took jobs in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. She presents startling evidence that these women were more than "desk murderers" or comforters of murderous German men. They went on "shopping sprees" and romantic outings to the Jewish ghettos; they were present at killing-field picnics, not only providing refreshment but also shooting Jews. And Lower uncovers the stories of SS wives with children of their own whose brutality is as chilling as any in history. Lower's work offers a rare window into the lives of German women, opening up a previously unexplored aspect of the Holocaust. Hitler's Furiesmakes "an unsettling but significant contribution to our understanding of how nationalism, and specifically conceptions of loyalty, are normalized, reinforced, and regulated" (Los Angeles Review of Books).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547807416
• Artikelnr.: 40075830

Autorenporträt

WENDY LOWER is the author of the National Book Award and National Jewish Book Award finalist Hitler's Furies, which has been translated into twenty-three languages. Recently the acting director of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College.

Rezensionen

Hitler's Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women's studies and Holocaust studies Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands