Analyzes attitudes of the German feminist movement to social and cultural developments considered threatening to women in their role as nurturers of life; all of these, in one way or another, were perceived as involving Jews. It was claimed that urbanization fosters neuroticism, to which Jews, an urban population, are especially prone; that the prostitution that flourishes in cities is in large part ...

"This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, ...

During the Italian occupation in the USSR, the soldiers of Italian armed forces often had relationships with Soviet women, opposed by the authorities for motives of politics and security. Some of the officers openly practiced concubinage, in contrast to the racsim expressed on that campaign. The authorities in situ also decided to open brothels fort he troops, filled with local women, in order to avoid ...

Publisher description: Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, ...

"During the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women ...

Abstract: The German military, Red Army, and partisans inflicted a massive amount of sexual violence onto unarmed civilians on the eastern front during World War II. Under the German occupation, civilians were driven into prostitutional relationships and prostitution, which caused widespread venereal disease. The Germans established military brothels and forced females to serve, indirectly by starvation ...

F. STRUBBE, Ministerie van Justitie. Algemene Directie Openbare Veiligheid. Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken (en rechtsvoorgangers). Grensinspectie, Bordereau de versement n°232, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, s.d.

Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944
 
 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration ...

Emil Herzog was born in 1884 in Jaroslaw, Poland. He married Antonia Biern Herzog, who was born in 1890 in Spiska Stara Ves in Slovakia. Emil was a traveling salesman, selling chocolate. The couple had four children: Henry Armin Herzog (b. April 27, 1917); Fela Herzog (b. July 13, 1919); Szymek Herzog (b. 1920); and Natan Herzog (b. 1924). They settled in Krakow in 1920 and lived on 11 Kolataja Street. ...

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Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die nach dem Reichstagsbrand aufgrund der Notverordnung zum Schutz von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 in großer Zahl verhafteten politischen Gegner des NS-Regimes wurden in unabhängig von Polizei- und Justizgefängnissen eingerichtete Konzentrationslager (KZ) ver‧bracht. Eine systematische Organisation und Vereinheitlichung der KZ und ihrer Wachmann‧schaften, der ...

Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...