'Ordinary women' as perpetrators in European Holocaust films

This article is concerned with the representation of 'ordinary women' as perpetrators in European Holocaust cinema. Refers to films that portray the persecution set in place by the Nazis, but also to films that endeavour to contextualize the Holocaust and examine its roots, its perpetrators, victims and their unique experiences. Examines how the films 'Downfall' by Oliver Hirschbiegel and 'The reader' by Stephen Daldry portray women as not fundamentally evil, but as unable, or unwilling to see the bigger picture of the persecution to which they were contributing