Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

 Shirley J.                         Adult Non-Fiction                      Nazi Wives/Lovers, Nurses, Prison Guards

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower    288 pages

Wow!  What a depressing book!   The atrocities described here by eye witnesses, victims, co-workers and the women themselves will haunt the reader afterward.    It is unfortunate that the courts and tribunals that brought the women up on charges were so lenient, often releasing the women to go free claiming insufficient evidence even when the women owned up to what they had done!  Defenses such as they were young and didn't know better.   They believed the propaganda.   Their husbands were doing it so it didn't seem unnatural.   Well they weren't really people as the Germans were.   Their bosses/commanders told them to so as good workers they administered the death shots, or helped carry out the beyond brutal experiments or became so adjusted to brutalizing Jews it wasn't a big deal to shoot them for sport,  One woman  enjoyed killing Jewish children in increasingly grotesque ways, yet, she was the mother of two children herself.   Women who faithfully followed their Fuhrer's path for praise and glory enjoying the sadistic adrenaline  rush they received from their violent acts.   This book is not for the gentle of spirit the cruelty ad barbarism described here will not be soon forgotten.  I would recommend this book for history buffs, WWII enthusiasts, and any one seeking to know all sides of the impact of the Third Reich,   Not a book for the young nor for the impressionable.