Accused

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How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A compelling examination of Nazi women’s perpetration of war crimes, and how—or whether—courts held them accountableTo date, our understanding of women’s participation in Nazi war crimes has been shaped by political decisions made by men, which reflect entrenched gender norms that diminish both women’s agency and their accountability. Jessica Trisko Darden offers a corrective to this by providing a groundbreaking holistic account of the variety of atrocities that women of all ages committed during the Nazi era, as well as the range of legal outcomes that they faced in the wake of the Second World War. By analyzing records from German, French, Hungarian, Soviet, and Israeli trials, Trisko Darden observes that postwar politics contributed to disparities in sentencing between men and women, which in turn allowed some women to receive more lenient sentences than others, or to be acquitted altogether. Her rigorous analysis of these women’s cases makes an important contribution to scholarship on women’s agency and culpability in perpetrating violence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-03-24
Mått156 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagYale University Press
ISBN9780300278439

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“Drawing enterprisingly on scores of postwar trials, Jessica Trisko Darden powerfully reveals the understudied history of how German women helped the Third Reich to commit mass murder. This devastating, insightful, and well-crafted book sheds new light on a largely overlooked aspect of Nazi Germany’s policies of oppression and extermination.”—Gary J. Bass, author of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia“A remarkable feat of archival sleuthing and moral reckoning, The Accused places women squarely within the story of the Nazi regime and highlights the tortuous path toward justice in the aftermath of atrocity.”—Charles King, author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams“Informative and illuminating, Trisko Darden’s book provides the most comprehensive comparative analysis of women accused of Nazi-era crimes from war’s end to the present. Covering hundreds of trials in this masterful exploration of legal history, female agency, and morality, she reveals the ‘patchwork of accountability’ female defendants experienced in the courtrooms and streets of Germany, France, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and Israel.”—Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields