AboutDylan Pemberton Expertise My area of interest is the holocaust with particular reference to the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp. I can answer most questions regarding the lead up to and the ultimate deployment of 'The Final Solution' including the Wannsee Conference, ghetto liquidations, the Nuremberg Trials, post-war 'Nazi Hunting' by the likes of Simon Weisenthal etc. My knowledge / experience is perhaps best suited to someone who - for example - had a homework / coursework assignment in this area as opposed to a professional interest in which case there are, naturally, recognised experts and historians available.
Experience Lifelong interest in ensuring the events of the holocaust are never forgotten, visits to Auschwitz Birkenau and extensive literature on the subject.
Education/Credentials 10 GCSE's, several A-Levels, BTEC National Diploma Graphic Design, 15 years senior level business experience.
Question which was the role of women in the Nazi Party, how influence they were?
Answer Hi Paula. Well, good question, I think there was quite a juxtoposition between policy and practice because the Nazi party very much encouraged women to stay at home, have 'aryan' kids, support the men etc. and tried to create a very sinister Utopia. However, many women were involved in the Nazi party and most imfamously for what they participated in at the concentration and extermination camps such as Hermine Braunsteiner (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermine_Braunsteiner). Below that, a whole raft of women - nurses, teachers etc. were complicit in the forced euthanasia of the physically and mentally challenged and the elderly and below that again, 'ordinary' women were just as vicious in their day-to-day persecution of their jewish neighbours (and often former friends). I also personally beleive that the wives of the many SS staff who worked at places like Treblinka, Aushcwitz Birkenau etc. were fully aware of what their husbands did and thus supported them defacto. Therefore, they were perhaps stealthily influential on the great scale of things and exceptionally influential on a micro scale such as within their realm of influence at a death camp. History shows that women like Hermine Braunsteiner were some of the most vicious and evil people involved in the deployment of the euphamism so called the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'.
