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Author Century, Rachel

Title Female administrators of the Third Reich / Rachel Century
Published London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in the history of genocide
Palgrave studies in the history of genocide.
Contents Female Administrators of the Third Reich; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Notes; Part I Hitler's Helferinnen; 2 Women in Service for the Fatherland; Notes; 3 Women at Work; Notes; Part II Sex, Lies and Stenography; 4 Typing for the Third Reich; Notes; 5 Secretaries, Secrets and Genocide; Notes; 6 Make Love and War; Notes; Part III Chaos, Confusion and Consequences; 7 The End of the War; Notes; 8 Condemned to the Consequences; Notes; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Glossary of German Terms and Organisations; SS Ranks; Bibliography and Sources; Primary Sources; Archives; Author Interviews
MemoirsPrimary Printed Sources; Secondary Sources; Articles; Newspapers and Magazines; Unpublished Theses; Websites; Films and documentaries; Exhibitions; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women Nazis -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and women -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
National socialism and women
Politics and government
Women Nazis
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137548931
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9781137548924