For a long time, the role of women in the Third Reich was mostly reduced to that of victims. The perpetrator aspect was often overlooked by research and the public. It was quickly forgotten that women had been members of the SS, had guarded concentration camps, and had brutally mistreated female prisoners, assisted as doctors and nurses in human experiments and euthanasia actions, or had recommended the forced sterilization of those deemed inferior according to Nazi ideology as caregivers. The few women who were prosecuted and convicted for their involvement in the inhumane acts of the Nazi regime were attributed a particularly cruel and rather un-feminine nature. This demonization not only rendered the examination of their actions and motives unnecessary but also created a distance from the majority of ordinary women. Therefore, it is still h.