Women and the Nazi East : agents and witnesses of Germanization / by Elizabeth Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : women, 'Germandom' and nazism -- Weimar women and the mission to the eastern borderlands -- The nazification of women's borderland activism, 1933-39 -- The recruitment drive : 'womanly tasks' and Germanization in occupied Poland -- 'Uncanny space' or 'German homeland'? : German women's constructions of the 'East' -- Motherliness and mastery : making model Germans in the annexed territories -- Moulding the next generation : village schoolteachers in the 'Reichsgau Wartheland' -- Childcare and colonization : kindergartens on the frontiers of the Nazi empire -- Building on the volcano : training village advisers in Kreis Zamosc -- Leaving the East behind.