Hitler's Furies

Hitler's Furies turns on its head the idea that women are innately more nurturing, kind and moral than men... While the accepted wisdom on female participation in the Holocaust singles out the sadistic behaviour of a few women guards in the concentration camps, such behaviour is usually contrasted with the myth of German female ignorance of the horrors. A veil has largely been drawn over the actions of the rest. Not any more -- Eleanor Mills Sunday Times (News Review) With Hitler's Furies, Wendy Lower has provided an important service in bringing the blind spot of women's participation and implication in the Holocaust into focus. The new book shines a stark light on the ordinary women who accompanied the 'Ordinary Men' of Christopher Browning's landmark study -- Roger Moorhouse New Statesman Disquieting... Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity... Ms Lower's revisionist insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity -- Dwight Garner New York Times Through a combination of archive material and interviews, the historian Wendy Lower has unearthed evidence of women who witnessed and even perpetrated atrocities in the Third Reich's eastern-most territories, where most of the murders took place... her stark, often harrowing book is a valuable addition to Holocaust studies -- Ian Critchley Sunday Times As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling -- Andrea Walker People