Liselotte Meier's Murder In Lida

bureaucracy were able to gain some power for themselves as well. For example, a young women named Liselotte Meier who worked in the Nazi offices in Poland married a storm trooper named Herman Hanweg. Hanweg was the district commissar of Lida and was in charge of exterminating Jews in the area. Liselotte learned to stay close to Hanweg acted as a liaison for him his subordinates and was in charge of dealing with Jewish council members (Lower 2013, 100). The largest massacre of Jews that occurred in Lida was on May 8 1942 that resulted in the death of 5670 Jews. Postwar trial statements on crimes committed in Lida by commissar officials reveal that Liselotte Meier actually was in charge of planning the massacre and was present in multiple other

(Lower 2013, 6). During a famous expedition of Nazi pillage through Ukrainian, Polish and Belarusian villages. Heinrich Himmler implemented a plan known as the “Hay Harvest Action, which was a sanctioned campaign of kidnapping Aryan looking children. The plan gave right to capture any blonde haired blue eyed boy or girl for examination. Nurses and Doctors would examine the child for German blood and eventually give these children up for infertile German women to adopt. The number of stolen children reached estimates of over one hundred and fifty thousand. Many of the children grew up in German households without any idea of their original roots. (Lower 2013, 36). This aspect of Nazi genocide could not have been executed without the administration of German females and mothers. Thus, the evaluation and distribution of children is another realm of Nazi genocide ideology that German women participated

He articulates, “Our women’s movement for us is not something that writes the fights against the man as its programme on its flag. Instead, it is something that sets its programme as a collective struggle with the man. Because it is through this that we have established our National Socialist Volkdsgemeinschaft.”(Vandana 2003, 24). Through this excerpt, Vanadana argues that women’s role was clearly defined to not just be nurturers of Aryan children, but also as defenders of the nation.
Inherently, there was a shared responsibility between both men and women in the fight for the Aryan race. The Nazi ideology believed that in order to successfully survive in the future, the racially and culturally other must be completely eliminated. Women’s role was perceived to be an important complementary element to the well-being of the Nazi regime. Men and women were meant to synergize and create a strong unity against the racially other (Vandana 2003, 25). Therefore women cannot be perceived to be mere victims of the Nazi state, as they were collaborators as well as