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Jew-Hate / Woman-Hate
of the ones the men had. ”80 The policy, it seemed, was that “strong
women without children were kept alive to work, and the rest were exterminated
by gas. ”81 Attracting the sexual interest of a Nazi could mean a
slower death as he worked on the body to destroy it over time: “When Ibi
removed her uniform in the course of an ‘inspection, ’ Mengele found
himself staring at her, transfixed.. . . Any other SS officer would have simply
made her his mistress. But Mengele evidently could not and would
not concede feeling an attraction toward a Jew. In a loud voice, he dispatched
Ibi to the infamous Block Ten, where the Nazis were performing
sinister gynecological experiments. Few women survived Block Ten.. . . A
few weeks later. . . [t]he beautiful young girl looked like a shriveled old
woman. Her slender limbs were swollen and disfigured, while her stomach
was bloated from the numerous surgeries that had been performed on
her. ”82 And still, there were brothels filled with Jewish women, for instance,
at a German labor camp at Adampol: “Spared the gas chamber,
they were kept alive solely for the pleasure of the Ukrainian and Latvian
guards and for German soldiers. ”83
Even among the partisans, survival had a sexual price for Jewish
women; “the possibility of rape and murder was real”; “if a partisan, any
partisan, helped a woman, he expected to be paid with sexual favors”; partisans
considered the women to be whores— “The very women they desired
as sex partners, they viewed with contempt. In male conversations,
for example, whore was often substituted for the word woman. ”84 Few
Jewish women survived. And for all Jewish women who did survive, “[i]t
was common to suggest that [they] had served in brothels... ”85 Survivors
from inside the camps were seen as whores and so were non-Jewish
women who survived outside the camps; for instance, in the aftermath in
Paris, “the women were made the scapegoats for the sins of the whole
community”; 86 moral outrage at collaboration was targeted against
women, again as whores, for having had sexual congress with Nazis or
French fascists. No amount of force or suffering erased the belief that
women in every circumstance whored, were base, were debased not by
Nazi cruelty but by their own female nature, which was sluttish and depraved.
Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek writes in Wonderful Wonderful Times
that the war went on, even after the cease-fire: “Apparently the beatings
began on the very day the War was lost. Up till then, Father had been
beating sundry foreigners. Now only Mother and the children were at his
disposal. ”87 And those German women who said take her, not me, discov­