Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 - Mailänder, Elissa
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How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the Lublin/Majdanek concentration and death camp in Poland. The author analyzes Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews to illuminate the guards' social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day lives on the "job."

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How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the Lublin/Majdanek concentration and death camp in Poland. The author analyzes Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews to illuminate the guards' social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day lives on the "job."
Autorenporträt
Elissa Mailänder is Associate Professor at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po and on the staff of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne in Paris. Formerly, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington D.C. Patricia Szobar is a writer and translator who lives in Berlin.