Wendy Lower
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A single photograph-an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family-drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar"--
This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they seek to erase the victims from the written records and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. A revelatory history of the role of German women in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Lower, drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, presents startling evidence that these women were more than "desk murderers" or comforters of murderous German men: they went on "shopping sprees" and romantic outings to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Wendy Lower's account of the role of German women on the Eastern Front--not only as plunderers and witnesses but as actual killers--powerfully revises history. Many young nurses, teachers, secretaries, and wives saw the emerging Nazi empire as a "Wild East" of opportunity, yet they could not have imagined what they would do there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of research and fieldwork, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with witnesses,...
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