04289nam 22007095 450 991025476860332120200705180024.01-137-54893-210.1057/978-1-137-54893-1(CKB)3780000000451189(MiAaPQ)EBC4944040(DE-He213)978-1-137-54893-1(PPN)25543491X(EXLCZ)99378000000045118920170810d2017 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFemale Administrators of the Third Reich /by Rachel Century1st ed. 2017.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (277 pages)Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide1-137-54892-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Hitler’s Helferinnen -- Chapter 2: Women in Service for the Fatherland -- Chapter 3: Women at Work -- Part II: Sex, Lies and Stenography -- Chapter 4: Typing for the Third Reich -- Chapter 5: Secretaries, Secrets and Genocide -- Chapter 6: Make Love and War -- Part III: Chaos, Confusion and Consequences -- Chapter 7: The End of the War -- Chapter 8: Condemned to the Consequences -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Glossary of German Terms and Organisations -- SS Ranks -- Bibliography -- Index.This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending telegrams. Yet their backgrounds and degree of commitment to Nazi ideology differed markedly. The author explores their motivations and what they knew about the true nature of their work. These women had access to information about the administration of the Holocaust and are a relatively untapped resource. Their recollections shed light on the lives, love lives, and work of their superiors, and the tasks that contributed to the displacement, deportation and death of millions. The question of how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide forms the conceptual thread of this book.Palgrave Studies in the History of GenocideWorld War, 1939-1945WomenEurope, Central—HistorySocial historyEurope—History—1492-History of World War II and the Holocausthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717110Women's Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35040History of Germany and Central Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717060Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000History of Modern Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080GermanyHistory1933-1945GermanyPolitics and government1933-1945GermanyfastGermanyHistory1933-1945nliGermanyPolitics and government1933-1945nliHistory.fastWorld War, 1939-1945.Women.Europe, Central—History.Social history.Europe—History—1492-.History of World War II and the Holocaust.Women's Studies.History of Germany and Central Europe.Social History.History of Modern Europe.940.5318082Century Rachelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut969696BOOK9910254768603321Female Administrators of the Third Reich2203651UNINA