Hitler's Furies

This “intriguing and chilling” WWII history follows thirteen ordinary German women who worked—and killed—on the Eastern Front ( Chicago Tribune ). A National Book Award Finalist Drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, Wendy Lower introduces thirteen women who took jobs in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. She presents startling evidence that these women were more than “desk murderers” or comforters of murderous German men. They went on “shopping sprees” and romantic