Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

This "intriguing and chilling" WWII history follows thirteen ordinary German women who worked—and killed—on the Eastern Front (Chicago Tribune).
A National Book Award Finalist

Drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, Wendy Lower introduces thirteen women who took jobs in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. She presents startling evidence that these women were more than "desk murderers" or comforters of murderous German men.

They went on "shopping sprees" and roma...