Women of the Third Reich : From Camp Guards to Combatants.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heath, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Germany.

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

Women--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2019.

Summary:

"An intriguing, but also shocking insight into the thoughts of those young German women and how they saw their part in Hitler's thousand-year Reich." - Armorama The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who issued typewritten dictates from above through to those who operated telephones, radar systems, fought fires as the cities burned around them, drove concentration camp inmates to their deaths like cattle, fired Anti-Aircraft guns at Allied aircraft and entered the militias when faced with the impending destruction of what should have been a one thousand-year Reich. Every testimony is unique, each person a victim of circumstance entwined within the thorns of an ideological obligation. In an interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary, she remembers: 'There was so much hatred within it's hard to understand how the state functioned... I am convinced all this infighting and competition from the males in Hitler's circle was highly detrimental to its downfall'. Women of the Third Reich provides an intriguing, humorous, brutal, shocking and unrelenting narrative journey into the half lights of the hell of human consciousness-sometimes at its worst. "Tim Heath investigated the experiences of women in Nazi Germany before and during World War II... What is special is that women speak candidly about their experiences, which were sometimes violent." - Traces of War "A fascinating book, chilling at times." -Books Monthly

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One Dismembering Innocence

Chapter Two Administrating Evil

Chapter Three From the Beggar's Paw

Chapter Four The Little Aryan

Chapter Five My Infatuation

Chapter Six Salon Kitty

Chapter Seven A French Adventure

Chapter Eight Keeper of Beasts

Chapter Nine The Devil's Daughter

Plate Section

Chapter Ten When Our City Burned

Chapter Eleven Rotes Kreuz

Chapter Twelve There be Monsters

Chapter Thirteen Surviving our Youth

Chapter Fourteen Shoot Straight

Chapter Fifteen Maidens of Iron

Chapter Sixteen Say Hello to God

Chapter Seventeen Victory, War is Over

Chapter Eighteen Erich

Chapter Nineteen In the Absence of Men

The Future

Afterword

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526739469

1526739461

OCLC:

1314617461