German women and Nazi justice: their role in the process from denunciation to death

'This essay examines both the 'legal' repression of women in Nazi Germany and the role that women played in helping to make the Nazi system of social and political control function. It focusses on women and the organs of social control in the city of Cologne and its surrounding area. It combines a computer analysis of all existing cases (ca. 30,000) of illegal political activity reported to the st…