German women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]German women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number364.151082/0001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10217f
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Bloomington, Indiana, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Indiana University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2018
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp111-136
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780253033819
NotesArticle from the book 'Women and genocide: survivors, victims, perpetrators.'pp111-136
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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