Female Administrators of the Third Reich (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137548924)

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending telegrams. Yet their backgrounds and degree of commitment to Nazi ideology differed markedly. The author explores their motivations and what they knew about the true nature of their work. These women had access to information about the administration of the Holocaust and are a relatively untapped resource. Their recollections shed light on the lives, love lives, and work of their superiors, and the tasks that contributed to the displacement, deportation and death of millions. The question of how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide forms the conceptual thread of this book.

Author: Rachel Century
ISBN-10: 1137548924
ISBN-13: 9781137548924
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d