German women's life writing and the Holocaust : complicity and gender in the Second World War

This study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, female refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors analyse women's motivations for enlisting in the National Socialist cause, as well as for their continuing support for the regime and, in some cases, their growing estrangement from it. Notes, bibliography, index. V, 288 p. ; 24 cm