Women at Work: SS Aufseherinnen and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust
Issue Date
2014-12-31Author
Cline, Shelly Marie
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
181 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
History
Rights
Copyright held by the author.
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Grossly outnumbered by their male colleagues and largely forgotten by history, SS women experienced and implemented the Holocaust in gendered ways. SS Aufseherinnen guarded women imprisoned within the Nazi concentration camp system. Within this system, they devised strategies to conform to the prevailing male gender norms which governed camp culture. This work examines their training, their camp experience, their postwar trials, and the use of their images in postwar culture. These were ordinary women, but their experience was marked at every stage by their gendered otherness.
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