Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

A shocking new history of the role of German women in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers on the Eastern Front

;A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front.;; History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal cheerleader for the F hrer. However, Lower’s research reveals an altogether more sinister truth. ; ; Lower shows us the ordinary women who became perpetrators of genocide. Drawing on decades of research, she uncovers a truth that has been in the shadows - that women too were brutal killers and that, in ignoring women’s culpability, we have ignored the reality of the Holocaust.; ; ‘Shocking’ Sunday Times;;‘Compelling’ Washington Post;;‘Pioneering’ Literary Review