Mothers in the Fatherland

<p>From extensive research including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau this book traces the roles played by women – as followers victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987 it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status culpability resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality of compromise and courage of submission and survival.</p>