“It Sounds like Total Fiction:” An Investigation into how and why the Nazi Regime used Brothels to Control Inmates within its Concentration Camps.

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dc.contributor.authorVan Der Meer, Kästle
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-26T23:20:30Z
dc.date.available2019-04-26T23:20:30Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-04-26
dc.description.abstractBetween 1942 and 1945, the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) established 10 brothels, for prisoner use only, within select concentration camps. Such brothels were established in order to provide an incentive for male prisoners to work harder and reach work quotas during a period when prisoner productivity was extremely low. The SS also attempted to use the brothels as a tool to convert homosexual prisoners. Ultimately, the brothels were not successful in serving these interests. Only a select number of privileged prisoners were permitted access to the brothels; not nearly enough to significantly affect camp productivity rates. Had the SS been logical in its attempts to increase productivity, it would have improved camp working and living conditions for all inmates instead of providing a few prisoners with superficial incentives to work harder. Additionally, forced visits to the brothel reinforced gay men’s homosexuality rather than reversing it. However, although the brothel system failed to serve its intended purposes, it provided the SS with a tool to further monitor prisoners and exploit the prisoner hierarchy to its advantage.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJCURA Dr. Laura Parisien_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10766
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJCURAen_US
dc.subjectHolocausten_US
dc.subjectbrothelen_US
dc.subjectNazisen_US
dc.subjectsex worken_US
dc.subjectgenocideen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subjectWorld War Twoen_US
dc.title“It Sounds like Total Fiction:” An Investigation into how and why the Nazi Regime used Brothels to Control Inmates within its Concentration Camps.en_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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