Did Nazi's Rape Jewish Women?

Question

someone asked me and I didn't know

Answer 1

Without a doubt rape occurred throughout the war zone and concentration camps. Given the Nazi's perverted views on racial hierarchy however, one should put a lot of conditions on your answer. In the concentration camps you were going to find both members of the Wehrmacht and the SS. If you were in the Wehrmacht, what you were was just an ordinary German soldier. Sure you got pumped full of Nazi propaganda. So did everyone else in Germany at the time. Ultimately though, you were just a soldier. You needed to know how to follow orders, conduct your functional duties, and fight the enemy. An SS soldier however was quite a few steps above that. To be in the SS was to be a brainwashed fanatic Nazi. You were a accredited member of the Aryan race and the Furher's elite agents in the field. I would suggest this distinction would have a great bearing on how you answer your questions on rape.

For example, because tasks like running the death camps was a "sensitive" task, these places were run by the SS and other people were kept away as much as possible. Sure the Wehrmacht could round up the Jews, Slavs, Gypsies etc and put them on trains. The Nazi leadership could trust them to do that, but could you really trust a common soldier oversee the gassing and incineration of tens of thousands of people and not get some sort of reaction/revulsion/disobediance out of him? Well they didn't even try. That is part of the reason things got so ugly in those places. The fanatics were hand picked to run them and left alone to do their job.

So given relations between an "Aryan" and a "lower race" was both illegal and considered abominable for Nazis and the SS was responsible for much of the machinery of the "final solution" part of the Holocaust, one could expect the incidence of rape in places like the death and labour camps to be less than what the scale of the other crimes would suggest.

THAT SAID, the Holocaust was a process that was much, much larger than what happened at the hands of the SS. For years Jews and the other "sub races" were subjected to a gradual dehumanizing process that required both the complicity and action of a hell of lot more people than the ranks of the SS. Among people who were not as brainwashed into the whole racial hierarchy thing but were given license to marginalize and abuse neighbours, one could expect the crime of rape to be extremely prevalent. All the victims of the Holocaust had to be isolated, arrested, concentrated, and transported PRIOR to be being put in the hands of the SS. In every step of that process there would have been opportunity for sex crimes and being so many people would have had the license for other abuse, it had to have happened more than one person could possibly imagine.

Answer 2

No. Under the Third Reich contact of any kind between Germans and Jews was discouraged, sexual contact especially so. The Germans generally used proxies to manage their prisoners and minimize their contact with them. For example, in the Polish concentration camps they would use Poles and specially appointed Jews called "kapos" to manage the prisoners. By this means the soldiers could avoid contact with Jews except in specialized circumstances. The living areas in the camps were completely segregated and designed so that the Germans would have no contact whatsoever with the prisoners. If a prisoner needed to have contact with a German for some reason they would have to be specially brought into the administrative area of the camp under guard. Having sexual relations with a Jew was severely punishable under the laws of the Third Reich. If you were in the Nazi party you could be expelled for having close contact with a Jew, and you could be imprisoned for having sex with a Jew. The Nazis and the SS in particular were indoctrinated with a philosophy that considered contact with Jews extremely undesirable. To have sex with them was an unthinkable crime, in their mindset. As far as rape was concerned the German soldiers were by far the most disciplined force in the world at the time and rape was relatively rare compared to the incidence of rape by American, British or Soviet soldiers. A civilian in Europe, Jewish or otherwise, was far more likely to be raped by an American or a Russian than a German. To give you a sense for it, when the Americans landed in France and took over the port of Cherbourg, the crucial base we needed to invade Europe, the very first thing we did is set up two gigantic warehouse brothels right at the entrance to the city. One of the brothels was for the whites, the other for the blacks. Such things never happened under the Germans. In general, the Nazis had a highly racist, family-oriented philosophy that minimized rape. For example, at foreign bases German workers and mechanics were allowed to bring their wives and soldiers were allowed frequent visits home. This minimized sexual deviance in occupied countries. Allied soldiers, however, had no official access to women and women were banned from the bases. This led to much higher levels of sexual adventuring and crime. The Nazis certainly committed a lot of crimes, but systematic rape was not one of them.

Answer 3

It was prohibited for German soldiers to rape. The only torture was from the Jewish Bolsheviks of the soviet union who raped and tortured with irrefutable evidence of 20 million Christians during that time. The brothels one idiot talks about was also created and ran by Jews where homosexuals, pedo's, did their business.

Answer 4

Rape is a horrible, horrible crime... but truly, compared to other acts performed on women by the Nazis... rape would have been considered almost mild. I know that is a terrible thing to say, but the Nazis were masters of torture... and oh, they enjoyed it so !!! Jewish women suffered acts you cannot even imagine.. and so did the Gypsies.

Answer 5

Not only did Canuck give a full and complete answer, but he totally ripped apart my answer on another question a few days ago. I feel kinda bad that I got best answer, he made my answer look dumb and callous.
That said, I would suggest that there very well might have been quite a few SS rapists as well but his facts and logic are sound.

Answer 6

Gees...where have you been?? Why wouldn't they? The Jews had no rights at all.

Also, ALL soldiers, when invading, rape women.

You really need to brush up on your history.

Answer 7

Nazi Rape

Answer 8

Officially it was prohibited.
Arians could not mix with lower races.
They imprisoned them to be sent to concentration camps made to work for the grandiose Germany and then eliminated.

Un-officially there could have been cases of rape, perpetrated by individuals, but if they were caught they were sent to prision, or to the dreaded Russian front.

Answer 9

yes. and i know this because my friends grandma was in a concentration camp(she's not jewish ) and witnessed many of the horrors the nazi's did.

Answer 10

Yes, it is a spoil of war. Take the enemies land, richest and finall is women. They set up brothels for german soldiers when they took liberty (vacation). The women were broken down inot categories of beauty with the prettiest going to officer brothels of course.