History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal cheerleader for the Fuhrer. This book presents overwhelming evidence that the women in these territories actively participated in the mass murder - and some became k[...]
"Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust." --"Washington Post"
In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern front--not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actua[...]
This in-depth study of a Jewish man's diary from Nazi-occupied Poland provides an unfiltered view of the struggles of Samuel Golfard, who tried to make sense of and resist the Holocaust that ultimately destroyed him. The diary is complemented by an array of wartime and postwar photographs, newspaper[...]
On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's [...]
Det traditionelle billede af de tyske kvinder som trofaste hustruer, der passede hjemmefronten, blegner ved Wendy Lowers Hitlers furier, en rystende beretning om de 500.000 unge tyske kvinder, som befandt sig på Østfronten, hvor de bevidnede og deltog i nazisternes folkemord under Anden Verdenskri[...]
De uppgifter som läggs fram i den här boken är så chockerande att de på ett avgörande sätt utmanar den bild som tidigare funnits av kvinnornas roll i Tredje riket. I takt med nazisternas expansion i öst kom så många som uppåt 500 000 tusen tyska kvinnor att hamna i situationer där de kom[...]