Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- ISBN-10
- 0547863381
- ISBN-13
- 9780547863382
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Wendy Lower
Description
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.
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