Women as Agents during National Socialism
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https://doi.org/10.14766/279Keywords:
Bevölkerungspolitik, Nationalsozialismus, Soziale Arbeit, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
This book raises important questions regarding the participation of social workers in the system of public welfare services during the Third Reich. Demands on welfare activities within the tension-ridden area of selection and “extermination” during National Socialism are considered. Esther Lehnert can illustrate that the work of social workers, previously barely recognized by academics and the interested public, represented an important site for the realization and formation of the category “inferior”. She does not present welfare work as “apolitical assistance”, but as a key function for National Socialist politics of discrimination and extermination. Lehnert’s study is based explicitly on research perspectives that do not view women solely as victims of National Socialism and that bring polarizing victim-perpetrator structures to light.Downloads
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2004-07-07
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