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  • Ordinary Women: Wendy Lower Talks About ‘Hitler’s Furies’

    10/15/2013 2:49:04 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    New York Times ^ | October 14, 2013
    In “Hitler’s Furies,” recently placed on the long list for the National Book Award, Wendy Lower presents the harrowing evidence of crimes committed by German women during the Holocaust. Dwight Garner wrote that previous books “have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity” and “Ms. Lower’s revisionist insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity.” In a recent e-mail interview, Ms. Lower discussed the changing view of women’s role in the Nazi regime, the challenges of writing for a non-academic audience, what she found most shocking in her research and more. Below...
  • The Nazi women who were every bit as evil as the men:

    09/26/2013 11:57:40 AM PDT · by the scotsman · 125 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 26th September 2013 | Tony Rennell
    Blonde German housewife Erna Petri was returning home after a shopping trip in town when something caught her eye: six small, nearly naked boys huddled in terror by the side of the country road. Married to a senior SS officer, the 23-year-old knew instantly who they were. They must be the Jews she’d heard about — the ones who’d escaped from a train taking them to an extermination camp. But she was a mother herself, with two children of her own. So she humanely took the starving, whimpering youngsters home, calmed them down and gave them food to eat. Then...