![]() ![]() The reason Himmler gave: “When these two conditions are met, the work capacity will rise enormously.” Also, a “certain small piecework rate” would be paid, the “Reichsführer SS” told the head of the newly-founded “business management head office”, Oswald Pohl*, who was responsible for the running of all the KZs. Only in rare exceptions, such as Auschwitz, were male and female barracks located next to one another.Īt the height of the war, as the numbers of KZ prison-laborers grew in importance, Himmler sent out an order on March 23, 1942: “I consider it of utmost importance that in the freest form, the hard-working female prisoners be brought into bordellos”. ![]() After an interim repurposing of the former male KZ Lichtenburg*, in Sachsen-Anhalt, from 1937 to 1939, the all-female KZ Ravensbrück*, in the Uckermark, was opened just a few months before the outbreak of World War II. At first they were imprisoned in normal jails, but by the end of 1933, the first KZ, Moringen* in Niedersachsen, was converted into an all-female concentration camp. Women, as well as men, were quickly taken into so-called “protective custody” soon after the Nazi takeover. In the concentration-camp system, the sexes were supposed to be strictly segregated. What he wrote reveals just what kind of dirty mind was at work in that prissy little man’s head: Yes, that’s right, folks…this guy here was the biggest pimp in Germany at the time, although I suspect that the megabrothel owners of today probably outrank him in terms of numbers of women prostituted, as well as earnings:ĭoesn’t look like a pimp, does he? Well, wait for it. This chapter of history has been opened by a traveling exhibition by the KZ-Ravensbrück memorial site, which can currently be seen in Weimar. The pedantic Himmler, of all people, was the biggest pimp in German criminal history, if the number of “his” slave-prostitutes was anything to go by. But who also knows that among the miserable “living” conditions, sadistic tortures and total absence of rights for the inmates, all the way up to “annihilation through work”, we can now add sexual exploitation? Today, it’s well known that the concentration camps were huge hells on Earth. How else could one explain that the concentration-camp brothels, which as of 1942 were set up in all the major KZs, were shamefully called “special buildings”? Just as shady, apparently, was another set-up in Heinrich Himmler’s apparatus. Even internally, the SS avoided concrete references to the millionfold murder of Jews, and wrote, instead, of their “special treatment”. ![]() Whatever is contemptible, gets concealed - even in the top-secret messages of mass murderers. Here’s my translation of an article that lays it all bare, with commentary in between: And the head pimp-daddy of them all was a name that should be familiar to everyone who knows even a little of their history. For all their obsession with “purity” and “virtue”, they were in fact a band of pimps. Yes, it’s true: There really was nothing beneath the Nazis. The word “Bordellfrau” should escape no one’s notice. Most are in their twenties, and many of them also live there.A concentration camp identification card from a female prisoner of Ravensbrück, who was sent to work in another camp as a prostitute. Some are from Laos, others are Chinese or Russian. There are 141 women in all - between five and eight on each floor. Her cloudy contacts match the dreamlike, opaque lighting in the room behind her. "I ring the silent doorbell the door opens revealing a young, pale-skinned, Chinese woman in a white negligee. "On the 22nd floor a single room is 'available'," writes Gaskell. The floors vary in decorative appeal and become less busy the further down you travel. Strange anime cartoons accompany the messages.īehind each door lies a different woman. Signs on the doors read "welcome", or "wait" in various languages.Īnother reads: "I'm worth the wait". The lights glow in various shades of pink. If the lights are lit, it usually indicates the "woman inside is available but it's not a sure thing". Hallways are decorated with fairy lights outside each room. Inside, past its tiled entrance, is a stark contrast to the building's bleak facade. ![]()
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