The Unparalleled Sexual Detention in Germany

In Germany, I prefer immensely the food and the sights, not to mention the car factories that I journey to. But even though things have developed over the decades, the Germans still look back to the past, where they had a role to play in changing the world we live in today.

When it comes to history, what spontaneously comes to mind when chatting about Germany? Yes, the most known word that reminds anyone of this country may be "Nazi," but the most cruel event that happened in Germany was not only the holocaust but also the sex detention in German prison cells from 1942 to 1945.

During World War II, thousands of women from more than forty nations were raped and abused when the German government revealed the "Forced Sex System" in Nazi camps, where male German soldiers freely visit prison cells that contain enslaved women, mostly from Ravensbrück, and forcedly have sex with them. This was a legal system at that time because it intended to surge the soldiers' productivity, so they could work better in the doomed Nazi factories which produced arms and batteries. Another objective of this system was to restrain homosexuality among the German military men and the male prisoners.

During the decade when the sex system was in effect, many women became sick or just died due to illnesses and the abuse itself. After 1945, this heartless system was halted and several women prisoners were freed, but the women went away and did not stand as witnesses to such a crime since then because of shame and trauma.