The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes by Trisko Darden, Jessica
The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes by Trisko Darden, Jessica

The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

A compelling examination of Nazi women's perpetration of war crimes, and how--or whether--courts held them accountable To...
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Author: Jessica Trisko Darden
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes by Trisko Darden, Jessica

The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

$57.00
The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes by Trisko Darden, Jessica

The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

$57.00
Author: Jessica Trisko Darden
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

A compelling examination of Nazi women's perpetration of war crimes, and how--or whether--courts held them accountable

To date, our understanding of women's participation in Nazi war crimes has been shaped by political decisions made by men, which reflect entrenched gender norms that diminish both women's agency and their accountability. Jessica Trisko Darden offers a corrective to this by providing a groundbreaking holistic account of the variety of atrocities that women of all ages committed during the Nazi era, as well as the range of legal outcomes that they faced in the wake of the Second World War. By analyzing records from German, French, Hungarian, Soviet, and Israeli trials, Trisko Darden observes that postwar politics contributed to disparities in sentencing between men and women, which in turn allowed some women to receive more lenient sentences than others, or to be acquitted altogether. Her rigorous analysis of these women's cases makes an important contribution to scholarship on women's agency and culpability in perpetrating violence.

Author: Jessica Trisko Darden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.58w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780300278439


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2026

About the Author

Jessica Trisko Darden is associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University and coauthor of Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice and Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars. She is a research affiliate at William & Mary's Global Research Institute and a nonresident fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.


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