Bordellos at Nazi Concentration Camps
The Nazis forced women into prostitution in a system of concentration camp bordellos designed to boost productivity among fellow prisoners during Second World War, a new book shows. Adolf Hitler’s security chief Heinrich Himmler set up the bordellos and established a bonus system that camp prisoners could use to buy privileges, such as cigarettes, or sex.
“Himmler had a great belief in men’s sexual power. He thought that by using bordellos you could force men to work harder,” said Robert Sommer, author of “Das KZ-Bordell.”
The first such bordello was established at the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942 and the program was then expanded to 10 camps including major ones such as Buchenwald, Dachau, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz. . . .
The routine at the bordellos was strictly regulated. Liaisons were limited to 10 minutes and surveyed by SS guards through a peephole in the door, Sommer said.
The bordellos also proved ineffective as an incentive.
Most concentration camp prisoners suffered from permanent hunger and only about one per cent at most made use of the bordellos, Sommer said.
Feeding the prisoners better would have been more effective, but that would not have been the Nazi way.
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