"The presence of 500,000 women in the Nazi East is integral to our
understanding of World War II, Nazism, and the Holocaust. Indeed, it is a
crowded field, but one in which fundamental questions are still
unanswered, and perhaps need to be asked in different ways. By
conducting a decades long, exhaustive research project, Lower holds
these women accountable, which is more than the international justice
system was able to do. What actually happened to these women, after they
fled the encroaching Red Army and returned their old lives? As Lower
concludes on the final page of Hitler’s Furies, “They got away with murder.”" [LA Review of Books]
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