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Judas Women

Ten Case Histories of denunciation by women in the Third Reich

Judas as a woman, women as traitors – in this historical study, Helga Schubert tells the stories of ten women who became informers during the Third Reich. Using court records, the author reconstructs the fatal connection between the informers and their victims. Helga Schubert employs her literary skills to search for clues of female perpetration and distills from them disturbing parables about betrayal.

  • With a new foreword by the author
  • For this book, Purdue University (USA) awarded Helga Schubert an honorary doctorate in 1991 (First published in 1990)
  • Print run of Helga Schubert's novels with dtv: over 420,000 copies
Rights sold: The Netherlands; Rights available again: France
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction

Helga Schubert

Helga Schubert, born in 1940 in Berlin, was a psychotherapist and writer in the GDR. She had withdrawn from public literary life until she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 with her story ‘On Getting Up’. The eponymous volume of short stories was published by dtv in 2021. In 2024, Helga Schubert was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit.

176 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-14821-4
Product features: First published in 1990
First published 2021