Female administrators of the Third Reich / Rachel Century.

Author
Century, Rachel [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
x, 275 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    Palgrave studies in the history of genocide [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-264) and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
    • pt. I Hitler's Helferinnen
    • 2. Women in Service for the Fatherland
    • 3. Women at Work
    • pt. II Sex, Lies and Stenography
    • 4. Typing for the Third Reich
    • 5. Secretaries, Secrets and Genocide
    • 6. Make Love and War
    • pt. III Chaos, Confusion and Consequences
    • 7. The End of the War
    • 8. Condemned to the Consequences
    • 9. Conclusion.
    ISBN
    • 1137548924
    • 9781137548924
    LCCN
    2017945091
    OCLC
    973314876
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