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By Rachel Century

This booklet compares girl directors who in particular selected to serve the Nazi reason in voluntary roles with those that took on such paintings as a development of verified careers. less than the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the military) held related jobs: taking dictation, answering phones, sending telegrams. but their backgrounds and measure of dedication to Nazi ideology differed markedly. the writer explores their motivations and what they knew concerning the real nature in their paintings. those ladies had entry to information regarding the management of the Holocaust and are a comparatively untapped source. Their memories make clear the lives, love lives, and paintings in their superiors, and the projects that contributed to the displacement, deportation and demise of hundreds of thousands. The query of the way gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide types the conceptual thread of this book.

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