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Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 Hardcover – March 1, 2015

by Elissa Mailänder (Author), Patricia Szobar (Translator)

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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 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 order of the concentration camp, combined with individual propensities, shaped a microcosm in which violence became endemic to workaday life. The author’s analysis of Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews illuminates the guards’ social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day behavior during free time and on the “job,” as they supervised prisoners on work detail and in the cell blocks, conducted roll calls, and “selected” girls and women for death in the gas chambers. Scrutinizing interactions and conflicts among female guards, relations with male colleagues and superiors, and internal hierarchies, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence shows how work routines, pressure to “resolve problems,” material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards’ roles in “creating a new order” heightened female overseers’ identification with Nazi policies and radicalized their behavior.

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434 pages
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English
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Michigan State University Press
Publication date

March 1, 2015
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6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
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9781611861709
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978-1611861709
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“The book demonstrates that young women often acted to a considerable degree on their own initiative to ensure the functioning of an extermination camp. . . . By elucidating the horrific ‘workaday routines’ of these female perpetrators in Majdanek and confronting the abysmal anthropological depths of a topic that is still taboo, the author helps to reconstruct how the murder of Europe’s Jews could become reality.”
―Bernward Dörner,Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

About the Author

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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1611861705
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michigan State University Press; 1st edition (March 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781611861709
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611861709
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,851 in Jewish Holocaust History
- #9,658 in Women in History
- #19,239 in Women's Studies (Books)

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Hardback wDustcover//405 pages- nonglare paper//114 pages of notes at the back//20 b/w phots and diagrams// Seemed a little repiticious, but I did learn a lot about the protocols and life of the female guards. It was quite different from the assumptions you make or hear of. I did find it informative. ...jim

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Several good point but at the same too montonous

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Very in-depth review of the female auxiliary guards (Aufseherinnen) at ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2015

Very in-depth review of the female auxiliary guards (Aufseherinnen) at the Majdanek concentration/extermination camp. Very important historical book. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

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Norman Yoke

A gender perspective on the Holocaust

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015

Anthropology and history of the everyday are the main tools of this great book on SS Female Guards. Both a methodological lesson for young researchers and an insightful account of the Majdanek "perpetrators" without mythology or judgement.

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this is a useful book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2015

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Extremely well researched. Objective but not insensitive. The information regarding recruitment, training and attitudes is very well structured, expressed and explained. To improve your understanding, this is a useful book.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2015

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My partners father loved this book, fantastically written

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