Wendy Lower's account of the role of German women on the Eastern Frontnot only as plunderers and witnesses but as actual killerspowerfully revises history. Many young women saw the emerging Nazi empire as a "Wild East" of opportunity, yet they could not have imagined what they would do there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of research and fieldwork, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women took part in the shooting of Jews and uncovers the stories of SS ...
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Wendy Lower's account of the role of German women on the Eastern Frontnot only as plunderers and witnesses but as actual killerspowerfully revises history. Many young women saw the emerging Nazi empire as a "Wild East" of opportunity, yet they could not have imagined what they would do there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of research and fieldwork, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women took part in the shooting of Jews and uncovers the stories of SS wiveswith children of their ownwhose brutality is as chilling as any in history.
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