Female Administrators of the Third Reich
Title | Female Administrators of the Third Reich PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Century |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2017-08-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137548932 |
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.
Women in the Third Reich
Title | Women in the Third Reich PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Stibbe |
Publisher | Hodder Education |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780340761052 |
The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the ommission, to reintroduce as actors on the historical stage that half of the German population who were female. This volume asks why such a sizeable proportion was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life; how ordinary Germans translated Nazi beliefs into action; and what, other than gender, influenced their political choices between 1933 and 1945.
Women in Nazi Society
Title | Women in Nazi Society PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Stephenson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415622719 |
This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. Policies concerning women ultimately stemmed from the Party's view that the German birth rate must be dramatically raised.
Women of the Resistance
Title | Women of the Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Marc E. Vargo |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786465794 |
Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents. This book presents the lives of eight women who, at profound risk to themselves, chose to challenge the Third Reich. Hailing from diverse regions of the world--the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America--the women shared privileged backgrounds of financial and social prominence as well as a profound sense of social justice. As to their deeds with the Resistance, they ranged from forging documents and hiding persecuted Jews to orchestrating sabotage operations and crafting a nonviolent protest movement within Nazi Germany itself. As could be expected, the costs were great, capture and execution among them, but the women's achievements did succeed in helping to win the war.
Mothers in the Fatherland
Title | Mothers in the Fatherland PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Koonz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 611 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136213791 |
From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality, of compromise and courage, of submission and survival.
Women in Nazi Germany
Title | Women in Nazi Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Stephenson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-05-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317876075 |
From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler’s Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from the stereotypes to provide a more complete picture of how they experienced Nazism in peacetime and at war. What was the status and role of women in pre-Nazi Germany and how did different groups of women respond to the Nazi project in practice? Jill Stephenson looks at the social, cultural and economic organisation of women’s lives under Nazism, and assesses opposing claims that German women were either victims or villains of National Socialism.
Women Under the Third Reich
Title | Women Under the Third Reich PDF eBook |
Author | Shaaron Cosner |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 1998-10-30 |
Genre | History |
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Traditionally, the story of the Third Reich has been a story of men, yet women participated in all aspects of the war and on both sides of the Nazi flag. This dictionary, with entries on more than 100 women, shows the diversity of their roles in this turbulent and disturbing period. It includes entries on resistance fighters, nurses, entertainers, writers, filmmakers, spies, and prisoners with exceptional spirit and courage. The women represented here came from all the countries involved with the Third Reich and from many different occupations before their involvement in the war—housewives, secretaries, singers, film stars, pilots, and athletes. This volume reveals the women's perspective on the history of the Third Reich. Despite the vast number of women who supported or fought against the Third Reich, historians have often neglected them and their contributions. Researchers checking the index of a book on the Third Reich might see one or two female names—usually Anne Frank or Eva Braun. This book is the first to provide biographical information on the vast number of women who helped shape the era. It offers an opportunity to reclaim a small sampling of the women who fought against or supported the Third Reich.