The oubliette was a method of execution, not a method of imprisonment or torture. You didn’t go and get the victim after they had served their time. You didn’t question them for information. You didn’t listen to any new evidence after they were tossed in - that iron grate might as well have been the gates of hell. Once you were in, you were never getting out. As far as the rest of the world was concerned, you didn’t exist. As the name suggests, you were forgotten. It was the preferred method of execution for many. Taking someone’s life with an axe or a noose was considered a mortal sin in many cultures, so the oubliette was a way to kill someone without actually killing them - the executioners were apparently able to convince themselves that it was nature or whatever that did the actual killing. For this reason, the famous pit at Leap Castle wasn’t technically an oubliette: This pit had wooden staves at the bottom, which impaled victims as they fell. That breaks the primary ...
How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps. The accounts that rap£ or prostitution was common, Were the guards were given "free reign" over the prisoners given view of them as subhuman The Nazis sort of developed a network of state-controlled brothels during the war. This included both the civilian and military brothels. The Nazis even set up brothels for the forced labor inmates that helped with the German war effort as incentives for higher production from prisoners in camps. Back then these brothels were suppose to serving several needs. For the soldiers that were far away from home, the Nazis thought that having these brothels would reduce the possibility of rape in occupied lands and reducing the sexual relations with impure local women or forced laborer's, as well. Heck, the Nazis tried to use these brothel women to cure homosexuality as a treatment with male prisoners that were gay. Regular German women were exempt from serving in these b...