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"Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust." â??Washington Post In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern frontâ??not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers. 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 Jewish ghettos; they were present at killing-field picnics, not only providing refreshment but also shooting Jews. And Lower uncovers the stories of SS wives with children of their own whose brutality is as chilling as any in history. Hitler's Furies challenges our deepest beliefs: women can be as brutal as men, and the evidence can be hidden for seventy years. "Disquieting . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . . [Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity." â??New York Times "An unsettling but significant contribution to our understanding of how nationalism, and specifically conceptions of loyalty, are normalized, reinforced, and regulated." â??Los Angeles Review of Bo… (altro)
Volevo dimostrare di non essere da meno di un uomo» ha risposto Erna Petri a chi le chiedeva come avesse potuto freddare a bruciapelo sei bambini ebrei ai quali, poco prima, aveva offerto ospitalità e cibo. E il suo non fu un gesto isolato. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, quando il Reich si estese verso est, migliaia di giovani tra insegnanti, infermiere, segretarie e interpreti si trasferirono nelle regioni occupate e finirono per essere coinvolte nella macchina dell’Olocausto: nei lager ben cinquemila guardie, un decimo del totale, erano donne. La storiografia si è occupata poco di loro, e così anche i processi giudiziari, da Norimberga in poi. Per la prima volta, dopo numerose ricerche d’archivio e interviste ai testimoni, l’autrice porta alla luce un mondo di inconcepibile ferocia, aggiungendo un tassello fondamentale alla comprensione della più grande tragedia del Novecento, ma soprattutto della storia e della natura umana. (fonte: retro di copertina)
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For my grandmothers, Nancy Morgan and Virginia Williamson my mother, Mary Suzanne Liljequist and my sisters, Virginia Lower and Lori Lower
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In the summer of 1992 I bought a plane ticket to Paris, purchased an old Renault, and drove with a friend to Kiev over hundreds of miles of bad Soviet roads. (Introduction)
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But the collage of stories and memories, of cruelty and courage, while continuing to test our comprehension of history and humanity, helps us see what humna beings—not only men, but women as well—are capable of believing and doing. (Epilogue)
"Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust." â??Washington Post In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern frontâ??not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers. 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 Jewish ghettos; they were present at killing-field picnics, not only providing refreshment but also shooting Jews. And Lower uncovers the stories of SS wives with children of their own whose brutality is as chilling as any in history. Hitler's Furies challenges our deepest beliefs: women can be as brutal as men, and the evidence can be hidden for seventy years. "Disquieting . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . . [Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity." â??New York Times "An unsettling but significant contribution to our understanding of how nationalism, and specifically conceptions of loyalty, are normalized, reinforced, and regulated." â??Los Angeles Review of Bo
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