Hitlers Furies, Wendy Lower
Hitlers Furies, Wendy Lower
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Hitlers Furies
German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Author: Wendy Lower

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2013


Synopsis

Wendy Lowers stunning account of the role of German women on the Eastern Frontnot only as plunderers and direct witnesses but as actual killerspowerfully revises history. Many young nurses, teachers, secretaries, and wives saw the emerging Nazi empire as a kind of Wild East of opportunity, yet they could not have imagined what they would do there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork on the Holocaust, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with German witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women went on shopping sprees and romantic outings to the Jewish ghettos of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, and that they were present at killing-field picnics, not only providing refreshment but also taking part in the shooting of Jews. And Lower uncovers the stories of SS wiveswith children of their ownwhose brutality is as chilling as any in history.Hitlers Furies will challenge our deepest beliefs using evidence hidden for seventy years: women can be just as brutal as men.

About Wendy Lower

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.


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