The worst torture in World War Serving in the Sonderkommando. These “work units” were comprised from Jews who were sent to the death camps, and were told if they wouldn't work, they would die. Their job: Aiding with the disposal of gas chamber victims. Try to picture this. One day, you and your entire neighborhood are taken away from your home, separated from your family, and are taken to a death camp. In the camp, you are taken aside and told that either you help the Nazis, or die. For years, your job is to sit next to the gas chamber, listen to 3,000 people screaming and dying for 7 minutes, and then enter the gas chambers, containing over 3,000 bodies of your friends, family, lovers and neighbors, to be taken to the ovens. In addition to this, you are fed poorly, treated like a prisoner, and can be killed at any second, or most likely will be worked to death. Your life has no value. Most Jews of the Sonderkommando either committed suicide, or were executed by SS soldiers, who fe...
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...