GERMAN CAMP BROTHELS IN WWII : NAZI GERMANY ESTABLISHED BROTHELS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO CREATE

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The women forced into these brothels came mainly from the Ravensbrück concentration camp except for Auschwitz, which employed its own prisoners. 

German camp brothels in World War II.

In Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps to create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, “prisoner functionaries” and the criminal element, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too debilitated and wary of exposure to Schutzstaffel (SS) schemes. 

In the end, the camp brothels did not produce any noticeable increase in the prisoners’ work productivity levels, but instead, created a market for coupons among the camp VIPs.

 The women forced into these brothels came mainly from the Ravensbrück concentration camp except for Auschwitz, which employed its own prisoners. 

In combination with the German military brothels in World War II, it is estimated that at least 34,140 female inmates were forced into sexual slavery during the Third Reich

The decision was taken by the Nazi leadership, as a form to provide incentive to value prisoners. The brothel remained active until January 1945. 

 and from 15 July 1943, in Buchenwald. The one in Neuengamme was established in early 1944, Dachau’s in May 1944, Dora Mittelbau‘s in late summer, and Sachsenhausen ‘s on 8 August 1944.

 There are conflicting dates for the camp brothel in Flossenburg: one source claims summer 1943; another states it was not opened until 25 March 1944.

The camp brothels were usually built as barracks surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, with small individual rooms for up to 20 female prisoners, controlled by a female overseer, Aufseherin. 

The women were replaced frequently due to exhaustion and illness, and were usually sent away to their deaths later. 

 The brothels were open only in the evenings. No Jewish male prisoners were allowed as patrons.

 Those with access to the customer lineup (Aryan VIPs only), had to sign up for a specific day and pay two reichsmarks for a 20-minute “service” based on a predetermined schedule.

 The women were matched with clients by an SS-man. The market for the “prize-coupons” was routinely cornered by the common criminals who wore the green triangles (hence the “green men” denomination).

controversial) that in some of the brothels, women might have had tattoos inscribed on their chests saying “Feld-Hure” (Field Whore).

 Some of them underwent forced sterilizations as well as forced abortions, often resulting in death.

The subject of forced prostitution in the camps was alluded to in survivors’ memoirs at least as early as 1972, when the first edition of Heinz Heger’s book, The Men With the Pink Triangl 

was published. Heinz Heger was the nickname for Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality.

 However, the subject remained largely taboo in studies of Nazism until the mid-1990s, when new publications by female researchers broke the silence. The Nazi’s killed at least 15,000 homosexuals in concentration camps.

 Homosexuals were forced to wear the upside down pink triangle and were considered the lowest of the low in the hierarchy of the camps. 

Sometimes the SS enticed women into serving in the brothels by promising them more humane treatment or reductions of their indefinite sentence. 

This caused anger or envy among some female inmates. Nina Michailovna.

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