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Ordinary Women: Female Perpetrators Of The Nazi Final Solution, Haley A. Wodenshek
Ordinary Women: Female Perpetrators Of The Nazi Final Solution, Haley A. Wodenshek
Senior Theses and Projects
This Thesis, by examining the roles of three Nazi women, Herta Oberheuser, Irma Grese, and Ilse Koch, as well as understanding the various women’s programs that helped to cultivate and further racism and violence against Jews and others “unworthy of life,” aims to paint a more complete picture of the true role played by Nazi women during the second world war, as well as argue that women were not only victims of the Nazi regime, nor were they solely bystanders. Rather, this thesis will demonstrate that women were not only complicit, but were also accomplices, aiding German men in facilitating …