Aufseherinnen und andere Frauen : an investigation of female perpetrators of genocide and other crimes during the Nazi regime, 1933-1945 / by Wendy Adele-Marie Maier.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: HQ1623 .M348 2002

Overview

Summary: From 1933 until 1945, Nazism sought to return women to subordinate societal positions. Despite this masculine-oriented ideology, many women supported the Nazi party, and sought ways to become involved. Although women could not join certain divisions of the Nazi government, they often married to gain authority. Some allegiance also manifested itself in employment in the camps as a Ärztin (doctor), Aufseherinnen (overseers), or, in the case of the Kapos (block commanders), forced supervisory positions. While not all women who were involved with the Nazis were criminals, several women who worked in the camp setting were guilty of horrific abuse, torture, and murder. Were these women aberrations or pawns for the Nazis? Working for the Nazis provided some women with an identity and the ability to share in a common goal: eliminate the enemy in the body of the Jew and others as prescribed by Adolf Hitler's Weltanschauung (ideological world outlook).
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Maier, Wendy Adele-Marie.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2002
Locale: Germany
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--Roosevelt University, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-138).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003. 22 cm.

Dissertations and Theses

Subjects: National socialism and women. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Women--Biography. Women internment camp guards--Biography. Women Nazi concentration camp guards--Biography. Women internment camp inmates--Biography. Women Nazi concentration camp inmates--Biography. Women--Germany--Biography. Nazis--Biography. Women. Womyn. Biographies.

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