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Hitler's furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields / Wendy Lower.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lower, Wendy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Germany.
- Women war criminals--Germany.
- Women war criminals.
- National socialism and women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The lost generation of German women
- The East needs you
- Witnesses
- Accomplices
- Perpetrators
- Why did they kill?
- What happened to them?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780547863382
- 0547863381
- OCLC:
- 852031499
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