Gender and power in the Third Reich : female denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45) / Vandana Joshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joshi, Vandana, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism and women.

Informers--Germany--History--20th century.

Informers.

Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei.

Germany.

Women--Germany--History--20th century.

Women.

History.

Political persecution--Germany--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

Physical Description:

xx, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially "crimes" pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life. One of the key factors in the enforcement of Nazi policies was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected "criminality." This book examines women denouncers in Nazi Germany through close examination of the Gestapo files. The author seeks to answer questions about how women in particular used denunciation and why so many ordinary women denounced 'deviants and dissenters' to the Gestapo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.

ISBN:

1403911703

OCLC:

51922903