Accused

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.

“Drawing enterprisingly on scores of postwar trials, Jessica Trisko Darden powerfully reveals the understudied history of how German women helped the Third Reich to commit mass murder. This devastating, insightful, and well-crafted book sheds new light on a largely overlooked aspect of Nazi Germany’s policies of oppression and extermination.”—Gary J. Bass, author of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia“A remarkable feat of archival sleuthing and moral reckoning, The Accused places women squarely within the story of the Nazi regime and highlights the tortuous path toward justice in the aftermath of atrocity.”—Charles King, author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams“Informative and illuminating, Trisko Darden’s book provides the most comprehensive comparative analysis of women accused of Nazi-era crimes from war’s end to the present. Covering hundreds of trials in this masterful exploration of legal history, female agency, and morality, she reveals the ‘patchwork of accountability’ female defendants experienced in the courtrooms and streets of Germany, France, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and Israel.”—Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields