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Female administrators of the Third Reich / Rachel Century.
Author
Century, Rachel
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
Description
x, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
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DD256.5 .C39 2017
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Women Nazis
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Germany
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History
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20th century
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National socialism and women
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History
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20th century
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Germany
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History
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1933-1945
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Germany
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Politics and government
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1933-1945
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Series
Palgrave studies in the history of genocide
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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.
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ISBN
1137548924
9781137548924
LCCN
2017945091
OCLC
973314876
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