Hitler's Handmaidens: Season 1, Episode 2

1 - 2: Nazi She-Devil

This episode explores how women were active and often violent participants and perpetrators in the war and its attendant atrocities- especially the Holocaust.

The war against the USSR unleashes the full horror of the Nazis on Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Russia. 500,000 German women serve on the Eastern front and the settlement of conquered lands commences. The local people make way for the colonisers and the death camps are established. It can't be done without the secretaries, administrators, SS wives, and female concentration camp guards. This episode explores how women were active participants and perpetrators in the war and its attendant atrocities- especially the Holocaust.