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 ofthis book.
By:
Rachel Century
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 4.753kg
ISBN: 9781137548924
ISBN 10: 1137548924
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 29 August 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Dedication.- Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Hitler’s Helferinnen.- Chapter 2: Women in Service for the Fatherland.- Chapter 3: Women at Work.- Part II: Sex, Lies and Stenography.- Chapter 4: Typing for the Third Reich.- Chapter 5: Secretaries, Secrets and Genocide.- Chapter 6: Make Love and War.- Part III: Chaos, Confusion and Consequences.- Chapter 7: The End of the War.- Chapter 8: Condemned to the Consequences.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.- Glossary of German Terms and Organisations.- SS Ranks.- Bibliography.- Index
Rachel Century is the HMD Development Manager for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Rachel lives in Hertfordshire with her husband Dan and their two boys, Zack and Toby.
