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
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 She had withdrawn from public literary life until she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 with her story ‘On Getting Up’.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 and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. ‘This Day. A Book of Hours on Love’ was published in 2023, and in 2024, Helga Schubert was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit.
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