Why were men and women seperated in concentration camps?

Question

Question for daughters report. We researched and couldnt find an answer.

Answer 1

Becasue their roles... the jobs they could do were different. They also killed a lot more woman and children. The men could do strong physical labor

Answer 2

Men and women and children were seperated in concentration camps because the Nazis viewed them as inferior and therefore by keeping them seperated it not only prevented them from reproducing, but it also lowered moral and made it easier for the Nazis to control each group better; if you were seperated from your spouse without knowing what happened to them your moral would go down and you'd be more likely to submit to authority figures thinking that he/she were killed (when in fact that might not have been true at all).
Also, usually the older men; women and children under the age of 12 were likely taken directly to their death from the trains..stronger men and older boys were forced to work to survive.

Answer 3

Keeping husbands and wives apart gave a psychological advantage to the oppressors because the traditional gender roles put men in the role of the protector. Separated, the women felt helpless and the men would not attempt to escape without their wives (and children)

Also, because of the traditional gender roles, able bodied males over the age of 12 were used for physical labour.
Children (and the elderly) were usually killed immediately, as well as women who did not have exceptional skills over and above their traditional roles as homemakers and nurturers.

It was also much easier for the oppressors to abuse women in the absence of men who would probably have tried to intervene.

Answer 4

It is a natural instinct for the man to protect the women. If the men were separted than there would be no resistance from the women. Also they had specific purposes for the women and men. Pls remember that woman have always been separated from the men. I believe that it is just assigning roles and duties according to gender.

Answer 5

Because men and women are generally kept apart in prison and the camps were prisons. However, Gypsies were kept together as families in the camps because the Nazis (in another example of their twisted racial theories) didn't believe the "gypsy race" could tolerate familial separation.

Answer 6

this is a guess, but maybe it had something to do with reproduction. People in concentration camps were there because they were a plague on German society (jews, gypsies, what have you). A good way to make sure there are no more undesirables, or to 'cleanse' the country is to keep them separate so they can't reproduce
but, again, that's just a guess

Answer 7

I don't think the women had the body fat required to menstruate since they weren't eating properly. My personal opinion was that it degraded them by not being with the opposite sex.