Female Guards of Nazi Brutality: When Ordinary Women became Architects of Atrocity

A vital, unflinching contribution to Holocaust history and the study of evil.

Female Guards of Nazi Brutality uncovers one of the darkest and least examined aspects of the Holocaust—the women who became instruments of Nazi terror. These Aufseherinnen, female guards stationed across the concentration camp system, wielded extraordinary cruelty within a regime of industrialised murder.

Through meticulous research and chilling trial records, this book traces the lives of ten women whose names hav...