Behind every Nazi mass murderer was a woman: New book claims women under Hitler were just as ruthless as men
Daily Mail | Feb 3, 2009
By Alan Hall
Women who worked under Adolf Hitler were just as ruthless as men, a shocking new book reveals.
Female Perpetrators; Women Under National Socialism exposes the myth that women under Hitler were the fairer sex and were simply caught up in the cruel actions of men.
In Nazi art, films and magazines, women were always portrayed as the fairer sex, fighting on the home-front as their menfolk fought on the battlefields.
But the book, which goes on sale in Germany this week, shows this was all propaganda and that women who worked under Hitler were just as brutal as men.
In the first German post-war reckoning of the role of women in underwriting the crimes of the Nazis, historian Kathrin Kompisch has revealed what has been swept under the carpet since 1945.
‘The history of National Socialism has long been reduced to one that blamed men for everything,’ Ms Kompisch said. ‘This was and is the popular picture.’
But the fairer sex venerated by the propaganda machine of Josef Goebbels was, according to Ms Kompisch, every bit as eager to turn the thumb-screws on the victims held in Gestapo cellars across Europe.
Her book shows that women were also every bit as fanatical as the men when it came to crushing resistance to the state.
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