Professor of German Elisabeth Krimmer Receives a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2015-2016

Professor Krimmer was awarded an NEH fellowship for a book-length study entitled The Female Front: German Women in the Second World War and Holocaust. The project analyzes the roles of German women as victims of, complicit participants in, and perpetrators of violence in World War II: as auxiliary forces in the German army, as nurses, as refugees, as rape victims, and as Holocaust survivors.