Research Catalog

Title

Female SS guards and workaday violence : the Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 / by Elissa Mailänder ; translated by Patricia Szobar.

Author

Mailänder Koslov, Elissa

Publication

• East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Szobar, Patricia

Description

xviii, 405 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.--Publisher.

Uniform Title

Gewalt im Dienstalltag. English

Alternative Title

Gewalt im Dienstalltag.

Subject

• Majdanek (Concentration camp) > Officials and employees
• Women internment camp guards > Poland > Lublin

Note

• Translation of: Gewalt im Dienstalltag : die SS-Aufseherinnen des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Majdanek. Hamburg, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-396) and index.

Call Number

*PXV (Majdanek) 15-132

ISBN

• 1611861705
• 9781611861709
• 9781609174590 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 1609174593 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781628952315 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781628962314 (Kindle) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014954452

OCLC

895302074

Author

Mailänder Koslov, Elissa, author.

Title

Female SS guards and workaday violence : the Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 / by Elissa Mailänder ; translated by Patricia Szobar.

Publisher

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-396) and index.

Added Author

Szobar, Patricia, translator.

Research Call Number

*PXV (Majdanek) 15-132