Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Audiobook (Free)

Wendy Lower’s spectacular account of the role ofGerman women over the Eastern Front-not just as plunderers and directwitnesses but as actual killers-powerfully revises background. Many youngnurses, educators, secretaries, and wives saw the growing Nazi empire being a kindof “Crazy East” of chance, yet they cannot have imagined what theywould perform there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of archival analysis andfieldwork on the Holocaust, access to post-Soviet paperwork, and interviewswith German witnesses, presents convincing evidence that these women wenton “purchasing sprees” and passionate outings towards the Jewish ghettos of Poland, Ukraine,and Belarus, and they were present at killing-field picnics, not onlyproviding refreshment but also getting involved in the capturing of Jews. And Loweruncovers the tales of SS wives-with kids of their own-whose brutality is as chilling as any ever sold.

Hitler’s Furies willchallenge our deepest beliefs using evidence hidden for seventy years: ladies can be just as brutal as guys.