Pictured: A brothel room in Buchenwald concentration camp The twisted brothel plan conceived in October 1941, was aimed at increasing prisoners' productivity by offering the starved and tortured inmates a bonus system. Schwela was killed by the resistance before implementing his plans, but in August 1943 and November 1943 both brothels came into operation under the command of SS beast Oswald Kaduk. Jews and Russian prisoners were forbidden. He also demanded that SS thugs watch through spy holes to make sure the women didn't spend more than 15 minutes with each prisoner.Īnd he imposed strict race laws, insisting that only German men could visit German women and Slavic men could only meet with Slavic women. In a chilling meeting with prison doctors he laid out his blueprint for the running of the brothels, instructing staff to ensure both male and female prisoners were 'clean', the women were sterilised and only the missionary position could be used. The man charged with implementing the plan was SS doctor Siegfried Schwela. Two of the largest were in Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland, with the main brothel nicknamed 'Puff' sitting just behind the sinister Arbeit Macht Frei entrance in Block 24.Įstablished at the beginning of WWII following Hitler's invasion of Poland, Auschwitz grew to become the largest killing machine in history.Īn estimated 1.1 million people were murdered through executions, beatings, slave labour and gas chambers. In total there were ten death camp brothels. This was followed by more in Ravensbruk, Buchenwald, Dachau and Flossenburg, among others.
The first 'Dolls' House', as they were known, was set up a year later in 1942, behind barred windows at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. The twisted plan conceived in October 1941, was aimed at increasing prisoners' productivity by offering the starved and tortured inmates a bonus system - if they worked hard enough they would be 'rewarded' with a visit to the camp brothel. In a diabolical scheme aimed at encouraging inmates to work harder, 76 years ago this month Gestapo monster Heinrich Himmler ordered brothels to be set up in concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe. Set just behind the notorious Work Makes You Free gate at Auschwitz concentration camp lies one of the lesser-known horrors of WWII - a brothel for prisoners. Himmler at the brothel in Mauthausen concentration camp Barrack 1 in October 1941
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