scene depicting a German soldier grabbing a Belgian girl in 1914. This image is a still from the 1918 silent fim "Stake Uncle Sam To Play Your Hand", colourised by @ungermario. The following is excerpts of 24-year-old Danish-German soldier Christian Tastesen's report of April 6, 1918 - today 106 years ago - in which he and his comrade jokingly threatened to behead a French civilian woman's baby. Translated by myself: "On April 6 we boarded the train again and headed to Lille. Since there was no more room we had to relocate to an adjacent village, around an hour-long march from Lille. There a comrade and I entered a house where a young lady and her child lived. We suspected no hostility and entered gently with our rifles on our backs. The lady sat by the table, but suddenly she pulled out a revolver, which was hidden under the table, pointed it at us and asked us to get out. We didn't have a choice but to leave. Once we had exited we were nevertheless emb...
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...