Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

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Wendy Lower
Wendy Lower
2013 • 288 pages

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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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It could have been written better, since the author keeps on boasting about extensive research, but she narrates everything and doesn't let the characters speak their own stories. Nevertheless it is an eye opening book about the violence women commit and how they participated in genocide.

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