Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942–1944Elissa Mailänder

In Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence Elissa Mailänder examines the manner in which a small group of ostensibly “ordinary” women—most of them unmarried, in their early twenties, and from lower socio-economic backgrounds—were transformed into an organized force of brutal guards at the concentrati...

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Main Author: Brown, Daniel Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2017
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 484-487
Review of:Female SS guards and workaday violence (East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State Univ. Press, 2015) (Brown, Daniel Patrick)
Female SS guards and workaday violence (East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State Univ. Press, 2015) (Brown, Daniel Patrick)
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Summary:In Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence Elissa Mailänder examines the manner in which a small group of ostensibly “ordinary” women—most of them unmarried, in their early twenties, and from lower socio-economic backgrounds—were transformed into an organized force of brutal guards at the concentration and extermination camp on the eastern outskirts of Lublin in occupied Poland. In her study she scrutinizes the records of twenty-eight of the roughly thirty-member female force that served on the staff of KL-Majdanek between fall 1942 and spring 1944., Mailänder devotes the first two chapters of her book to how such women were channeled into supporting genocide.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx043