Former Museum fellow Wendy Lower challenges the traditional picture of Germany's women holding down the home front. In her compelling book, "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields," she reveals new evidence that places them directly in the maelstrom of war: looting, plundering, and even killing.
Learn about a generation of young women swept up in the feverish nationalism of the Nazi party, many of whom traveled east with the expanding "frontier" --where they witnessed and participated in exploitation, persecution, and murder.
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