Nazi wives : the women at the top of Hitler's Germany

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Label

Nazi wives : the women at the top of Hitler's Germany

Title remainder

the women at the top of Hitler's Germany

Statement of responsibility

James Wyllie

Creator

• Wyllie, James

Author

• Wyllie, James

Subject

• National socialism -- Social aspects -- Germany
• National socialism and women -- History
• Nazis -- Biography
• Women -- Germany -- Biography
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• Women -- Political activity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Women Nazis -- Germany -- Biography
• Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Friends and associates

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann-names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men-complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself. Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables. James Wyllie's Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skillfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

943.086092/52

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DD245

LC item number

.W95 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography