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Eastern Europe
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Conditions in brothels were brutal. The women were often raped by up to 32 men per day; the visiting soldiers were allocated 15 minutes each at a nominal cost of 3 Reichsmarks per "session" between the hours of 2 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.[5]. Approximately 35,000 Jewish women and girls were forced to work in brothels, with each woman being made to service seven or more men per day.[1] Those who were visibly pregnant were sometimes released, but would not go back to their families, so as not to shame them.[5]
Causes
[edit]Although it contradicted the ideals of Aryan "moral strength and purity", the brothels were justified as acceptable sexual outlets for Nazi soldiers. Nazi beliefs incorporated a strict racial hierarchy with a deep fear of racial mixing, which played a major role in shaping prostitution politics. These were influenced by not only their racial views but also through political, social, and military objectives.[2] That being said, the Nazis still believed that military brothels were a better alternative than having sexual relations with local foreign women and forced laborers. They also believed that interacting with prostitutes was no different than interacting with naked female prisoners in Nazi camps.[8]
Forced prostitution
[edit]The Germans had to enforce stricter regulations to make sure soldiers had access to a sex life.[1] A 1977 German report by a neoconservative revisionist historian from Baden-Württemberg, Franz W. Seidler, contended that the foreign women who were made to register for the German military brothels had been prostitutes already before the war.[12][13] Ruth Seifert, professor of sociology at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, on the other hand, maintained that women were forced to work in these brothels by their German captors, as shown during the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946, further confirmed by the 1961 book published by Raul Hilberg.[14]
+ link Swiss Red Cross page to second paragraph under the "Eastern Europe" section
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- ^ a b Burds, Jeffrey (2009). "Sexual Violence in Europe in World War II, 1939—1945". Politics & Society. 37 (1): 35–73. doi:10.1177/1059601108329751. ISSN 0032-3292.
- ^ Röger, Maren; Debruyne, Emmanuel (2016). "From Control to Terror: German Prostitution Policies in Eastern and Western European Territories during both World Wars". Gender & History. 28 (3): 687–708. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12245. ISSN 1468-0424.