Exploring another wretched corner of World War II history, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) exposes the fact that German women were not just tending to domestic affairs during World War II, but were actually perpetrating atrocities during the Shoah. Author Wendy Lower, the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and a historical consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, discovered “a major gap in Holocaust history, what seemed like a blind spot,” in her words. German women “went east” and served the Third Reich as perpetrators and enablers of numerous crimes against humanity. Lower includes names of some of the German women present at notorious massacres. — M.S.
(American Jewish World, 10.11.13)
