German women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East

Focuses on German women in the Nazi East, examining their background, behaviour and identity, participation in the terror promoted by the Third Reich, and their choice to actively support Nazi fascism. By analyzing the different roles played by German female perpetrators, Lower shows how these women became an integral component of the SS-led machinery of destruction. They promoted Nazi racial policies in Germany and the occupied territories and shared with men in the task of mass murder