Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

by Elissa Mailänder

How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mail nder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in Poland. Many female SS overseers in Majdanek perpetrated violence and terrorized prisoners not only when ordered to do so but also on their own initiative. The social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861705
• ISBN13: 9781611861709
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"