Wendy Lower has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Hitler's Furies.
Hitler's Furies
Summary
Wendy Lower's stunning account of the role of German women on the Eastern Front - not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers - powerfully revises history. Many young nurses, teachers, secretaries, and wives saw the emerging Nazi empire as a kind of "Wild East" of opportunity, yet they could not have imagined what they would do there. Lower, drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork on the Holocaust, access to post-Soviet documents, and interviews with German witnesses, presents compelling evidence that these women went on "shopping sprees" and romantic outings to the Jewish ghettos of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, and that they were present at killing-field picnics, not only providing refreshment but also taking part in the shooting of Jews. And, Lower uncovers the stories of SS wives - with children of their own - whose brutality is as chilling as any in history. Hitler's Furies will challenge our deepest beliefs using evidence hidden for seventy years: Women can be just as brutal as men.
©2013 Wendy Lower (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Summary
Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine, the "jewel" of the Nazi empire. In this unprecedented attempt at Nazi empire building, violence, racism, antisemitism, and militarism pervaded all aspects of everyday life. Lower argues that it was in the eastern outposts of the Reich, such as Ukraine, that the regime's core beliefs, aims, and practices were revealed.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2007 Wendy Lower (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Hitlers furier
Summary
Det traditionelle billede af de tyske kvinder som trofaste hustruer, der passede hjemmefronten, blegner ved Wendy Lowers Hitlers furier, en rystende beretning om de 500.000 unge tyske kvinder, som befandt sig på Østfronten, hvor de bevidnede og deltog i nazisternes folkemord under Anden Verdenskrig. Disse unge kvinder - sygeplejersker, sekretærer, hustruer og elskerinder - så det fremvoksende nazi-imperiums østfront som et sted med rige karriere- og ægteskabsmuligheder, men forestillede sig næppe, hvad de ville komme til at se og gøre der. "Hitlers furier" tegner et billede af en - i moralsk forstand - fortabt generation af unge kvinder, der blev født i et kaotisk Tyskland efter nederlaget i Første Verdenskrig og blev grebet af den nationalistiske begejstringsbølge i den nazistiske bevægelse. På baggrund af 20 års holocauststudier, adgang til hidtil ukendt materiale fra russiske arkiver og interviews med overlevende tyske vidner viser Wendy Lower, at disse kvinder var andet og mere end bare skrivebordsmordere og behageligt fritidsselskab for de tyske mænd. Hun fortæller, hvordan de tog del i mishandlingen af jøder i ghettoerne i Polen, Ukraine og Hviderusland, at de var vidner til massakrer, hvor de ikke bare serverede forfriskninger, men også tog deres tørn i massenedskydningerne. Og som det måske mest skræmmende fortæller hun om SS-hustruer og småbørnsmødre, hvis brutalitet og grusomhed ikke står tilbage for særlig meget i verdenshistorien. "Hitlers furier" var nomineret til den amerikanske National Book Award for Nonfiction 2013.
©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Anders Nygaard (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof
The Ravine
Summary
A single photograph - an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family - drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar. In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler’s Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German officials and Ukrainian collaborators. A Ukrainian shooter’s rifle is inches from a woman's head, obscured in a cloud of smoke. She is bending forward, holding the hand of a barefooted little boy. And - only one of the shocking revelations of Wendy Lower’s brilliant 10-year investigation of this image - the shins of another child, slipping from the woman’s lap. Wendy Lower’s forensic and archival detective work - in Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States - recovers astonishing layers of detail concerning the open-air massacres in Ukraine. The identities of mother and children, of the killers - and, remarkably, of the Slovakian photographer who openly took the image, as a secret act of resistance - are dramatically uncovered. Finally, in the hands of this brilliant exceptional scholar, a single image unlocks a new understanding of the place of the family unit in the ideology of Nazi genocide. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Wendy Lower (P)2021 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company