Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45)

by V. Joshi

Overview

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially 'crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life. One of the key factors in the enforcement of Nazi policies was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected 'criminality'. This book examines women denouncers in Nazi Germany through close examination of the Gestapo files. The author seeks to answer questions about how women in particular used denunciation and why so many ordinary women denounced 'deviants and dissenters' to the Gestapo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349510757
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Edition description:	1st ed. 2003
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

VANDANA JOSHI has conducted extensive research in the Gestapo Archives as a Fellow of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) and the IFU (Internationale Frauen Universität). She is affiliated with the Technical University, Berlin, from where she gained a doctorate. She lives in New Delhi, India, with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction Methodology and Sources The Private Becomes Public Fishing in Troubled Waters Faces of Gender Oppression Conclusion Bibliography