Wendy Lower: 4 books

“Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust.” —Washington Post In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern front—not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but...

Spraakmakend boek over Hitlers vrouwelijke beulen   Hitlers furiën is een verbluffend boek over de onderbelichte rol die Duitse vrouwen speelden aan het Oostfront. Deze vrouwen waren niet alleen getuigen, maar vaak ook gewetenloze daders. Vele jonge verpleegsters, onderwijzeressen,...

On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's...

The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfard’s life, the diary details his attempt to make sense of and resist the event that...