| ISBN |
9780806542850 (hardback) |
| Name |
Eischeid, Susan J. author. |
| Title |
Mistress of life and death : the dark journey of Maria Mandl, head overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau / Susan J. Eischeid. |
| Published |
New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024] |
| ©2024 |
| Description |
xv, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-440) and index. |
| Summary |
This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity. |
| Subjects |
Mandl, Maria |
| Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Women Nazis -- Germany -- Biography |
| Nazi concentration camps -- Poland -- Officials and employees -- Biography |
| Women -- Germany -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities |
| Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 |
| Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 |
| Genre |
Biographies |
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