Overview
- Investigates the background, activities, and motivations of German women who provided administrative support for Nazi institutions and agencies
- Examines how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide
- Explores the situations and motives of female administrators of the Third Reich
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide (PSHG)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hitler’s Helferinnen
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Sex, Lies and Stenography
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Chaos, Confusion and Consequences
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Century’s book provides an original and important contribution to our understanding of women in the Third Reich. Her analysis of SS female auxiliaries, female communication auxiliaries of the army and secretaries gives a broad coverage of female administrators under National Socialism. Century shows how many ordinary women in the Third Reich contributed to the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the regime by administrating for the Nazis. Furthermore, she demonstrates that the documentation they handled contained indications of persecution and mass death from the ambiguous to the undeniable.” (Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UK)
“In examining a large but hitherto ignored group of women in Nazi Germany, Rachel Century performs an important service. She shows that the Nazis’female administrators were not perpetrators but neither were they victims. The choices they made facilitated the regime’s functioning but did not make them feel implicated in its crimes. The ethical implications of this position were and remain dangerous, offering many warnings for the present.” (Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Administrators of the Third Reich
Authors: Rachel Century
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54893-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54892-4Published: 29 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54893-1Published: 10 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-569X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 275
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Women's Studies, History of Germany and Central Europe, Social History, History of Modern Europe