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National Book Award Finalist National Jewish Book Award Finalist Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower's book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. --New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. --Chicago Tribune Compelling. . . By focusing on the role of ordinary women -- rather than the already notorious female concentration camp guards -- Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust. . . Lower's careful research proves that the capacity for indifferent cruelty is not reserved for men -- it exists in all of us. --Washington Post A virtuosic feat of scholarship. --Kirkus Reviews Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. --People Often harrowing and even disturbing... [Hitler's Furies] shines a stark light on the ordinary women who accompanied the ordinary men of Christopher Browning's landmark study. --New Statesman (UK) Lower sheds some much-needed light on an aspect of WWII history that has remained in the shadows for decades . . . Surprising and deeply unsettling, the book is a welcome addition to the literature on the Holocaust. --Booklist Hitlers Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women's studies and Holocaust studies. --Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Hitler's Furies is the first book to follow the biographical trajectories of individual women whose youthful exuberance, loyalty to the F�hrer, ambition, and racism took them to the deadliest sites in German-occupied Europe. Drawing on immensely rich source material, Lower integrates women perpetrators and accomplices into the social history of the Third Reich, and illuminates them indelibly as a part of post-war East and West German memory that has been, until this book, unmined. --Claudia Koonz, author of Mothers in the Fatherland Hitler's Furies is a long overdue and superb addition to the history of the Holocaust. The role of women perpetrators during the Final Solution has been too much glossed over. Lower's book provides an important and stunning corrective. It is a significant addition to our understanding of the role of ordinary Germans in the Reich's genocide. --Deborah Lipstadt, author of Eichmann on Trial Lower shifts away from the narrow focus on the few thousand female concentration camp guards who have been at the center of previous studies of female culpability in Nazi crimes and identifies the cluster of professions--nurses, social workers, teachers, office workers--that in addition to family connections brought nearly one-half million women to the German East and into close proximity with pervasive Nazi atrocities. Through the lives of carefully-researched individuals, she captures a spectrum of career trajectories and behavior. This is a book that artfully combines the study of gender with the illumination of individual experience. --Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men National Book Award Finalist National Jewish Book Award Finalist Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower s book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower s] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. Chicago Tribune Compelling. . . By focusing on the role of ordinary women rather than the already notorious female concentration camp guards Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust. . . Lower s careful research proves that the capacity for indifferent cruelty is not reserved for men it exists in all of us. Washington Post A virtuosic feat of scholarship. Kirkus Reviews Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. People Often harrowing and even disturbing... [ Hitler's Furies ]shines a stark light on the ordinary women who accompanied the ordinary men of Christopher Browning s landmark study. New Statesman (UK) Lower sheds some much-needed light on an aspect of WWII history that has remained in the shadows for decades . . . Surprising and deeply unsettling, the book is a welcome addition to the literature on the Holocaust. Booklist Hitlers Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women s studies and Holocaust studies. Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Hitler's Furies is the first book to follow the biographical trajectories of individual women whose youthful exuberance, loyalty to the Fuhrer, ambition, and racism took them to the deadliest sites in German-occupied Europe. Drawing on immensely rich source material, Lower integrates women perpetrators and accomplices into the social history of the Third Reich, and illuminates them indelibly as a part of post-war East and West German memory that has been, until this book, unmined. Claudia Koonz, author of Mothers in the Fatherland Hitler s Furies is a long overdue and superb addition to the history of the Holocaust. The role of women perpetrators during the Final Solution has been too much glossed over. Lower s book provides an important and stunning corrective. It is a significant addition to our understanding of the role of ordinary Germans in the Reich s genocide. Deborah Lipstadt, author of Eichmann on Trial Lower shifts away from the narrow focus on the few thousand female concentration camp guards who have been at the center of previous studies of female culpability in Nazi crimes and identifies the cluster of professions nurses, social workers, teachers, office workers that in addition to family connections brought nearly one-half million women to the German East and into close proximity with pervasive Nazi atrocities. Through the lives of carefully-researched individuals, she captures a spectrum of career trajectories and behavior. This is a book that artfully combines the study of gender with the illumination of individual experience. Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men National Book Award Finalist National Jewish Book Award Finalist Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower s book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower s] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. Chicago Tribune Compelling. . . By focusing on the role of ordinary women rather than the already notorious female concentration camp guards Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust. . . Lower s careful research proves that the capacity for indifferent cruelty is not reserved for men it exists in all of us. Washington Post A virtuosic feat of scholarship. Kirkus Reviews Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. People Often harrowing and even disturbing... [ Hitler's Furies ]shines a stark light on the ordinary women who accompanied the ordinary men of Christopher Browning s landmark study. New Statesman (UK) Lower sheds some much-needed light on an aspect of WWII history that has remained in the shadows for decades . . . Surprising and deeply unsettling, the book is a welcome addition to the literature on the Holocaust. Booklist Hitlers Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women s studies and Holocaust studies. Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Hitler's Furies is the first book to follow the biographical trajectories of individual women whose youthful exuberance, loyalty to the Fuhrer, ambition, and racism took them to the deadliest sites in German-occupied Europe. Drawing on immensely rich source material, Lower integrates women perpetrators and accomplices into the social history of the Third Reich, and illuminates them indelibly as a part of post-war East and West German memory that has been, until this book, unmined. Claudia Koonz, author of Mothers in the Fatherland Hitler s Furies is a long overdue and superb addition to the history of the Holocaust. The role of women perpetrators during the Final Solution has been too much glossed over. Lower s book provides an important and stunning corrective. It is a significant addition to our understanding of the role of ordinary Germans in the Reich s genocide. Deborah Lipstadt, author of Eichmann on Trial Lower shifts away from the narrow focus on the few thousand female concentration camp guards who have been at the center of previous studies of female culpability in Nazi crimes and identifies the cluster of professions nurses, social workers, teachers, office workers that in addition to family connections brought nearly one-half million women to the German East and into close proximity with pervasive Nazi atrocities. Through the lives of carefully-researched individuals, she captures a spectrum of career trajectories and behavior. This is a book that artfully combines the study of gender with the illumination of individual experience. Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men National Book Award Finalist Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. -- People Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower's book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. -- New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. -- Chicago Tribune A virtuosic feat of scholarship. -- Kirkus Reviews

National Book Award Finalist Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. -- People Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower's book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. -- New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. -- Chicago Tribune A virtuosic feat of scholarship. -- Kirkus Reviews

National Book Award Finalist National Jewish Book Award Finalist Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower's book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. --New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. --Chicago Tribune Compelling. . . By focusing on the role of ordinary women -- rather than the already notorious female concentration camp guards -- Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust. . . Lower's careful research proves that the capacity for indifferent cruelty is not reserved for men -- it exists in all of us. --Washington Post A virtuosic feat of scholarship. --Kirkus Reviews Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. --People Often harrowing and even disturbing... [Hitler's Furies] shines a stark light on the ordinary women who accompanied the ordinary men of Christopher Browning's landmark study. --New Statesman (UK) Lower sheds some much-needed light on an aspect of WWII history that has remained in the shadows for decades . . . Surprising and deeply unsettling, the book is a welcome addition to the literature on the Holocaust. --Booklist Hitlers Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women's studies and Holocaust studies. --Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Hitler's Furies is the first book to follow the biographical trajectories of individual women whose youthful exuberance, loyalty to the Fuhrer, ambition, and racism took them to the deadliest sites in German-occupied Europe. Drawing on immensely rich source material, Lower integrates women perpetrators and accomplices into the social history of the Third Reich, and illuminates them indelibly as a part of post-war East and West German memory that has been, until this book, unmined. --Claudia Koonz, author of Mothers in the Fatherland Hitler's Furies is a long overdue and superb addition to the history of the Holocaust. The role of women perpetrators during the Final Solution has been too much glossed over. Lower's book provides an important and stunning corrective. It is a significant addition to our understanding of the role of ordinary Germans in the Reich's genocide. --Deborah Lipstadt, author of Eichmann on Trial Lower shifts away from the narrow focus on the few thousand female concentration camp guards who have been at the center of previous studies of female culpability in Nazi crimes and identifies the cluster of professions--nurses, social workers, teachers, office workers--that in addition to family connections brought nearly one-half million women to the German East and into close proximity with pervasive Nazi atrocities. Through the lives of carefully-researched individuals, she captures a spectrum of career trajectories and behavior. This is a book that artfully combines the study of gender with the illumination of individual experience. --Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men --

National Book Award FinalistNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Disquieting . . . Ms. Lower's book is partly the study of a youthquake . . . Earlier books about the Holocaust have offered up poster girls of brutality and atrocity . . .[Lower's] insight is to track more mundane lives, and to argue for a vastly wider complicity. -- New York Times Intriguing and chilling . . . feminism run amok. -- Chicago Tribune A virtuosic feat of scholarship. -- Kirkus Reviews Well-researched . . . As gripping and eye-opening as it is chilling. -- People

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WENDY LOWER is the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and a research associate at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. A historical consultant for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, she has published numerous articles and books on the Holocaust and conducted research in central and eastern Europe since 1992.

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