Treatment of Women
Women were treated horribly by the German officials. They were forced to perform hard labor in the concentration camps. They were required to work in Nazi factories, by carrying heavy weights and producing mass goods for the German Reich.
Nazi Germans exploited the women and men of the Holocaust, through the mass experimentation that they performed. German physicians manipulated the women by performing criminal medical experiments on them. For example, Doctor Carl Clauberg experimented on his patients with sterilization. He injected the women with a serum that caused serious effects to their body, such as inflammation and blockage of the Fallopian tubes. Other physicians performed mass experiments on their patients to find ways of mass destruction for the war. The experiments performed were commonly known to kill the patients. Women were also mistreated by the sexual exploitation of the German officers. Women in the concentration camps were vulnerable to the officials wrath. They were often beaten and raped in the concentration camps because the Germans believed that all "inferior people" needed a German companion. If the women were impregnated before going to the camp, they were forced to have abortions. If not, women were forced to have their baby in an unreliable hospital setting where their babies would not receive sufficient care. |
Primary Source
A Section of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp A concentration camp located in Germany in which Jews were brought to be exchanged for German soldiers, who were forced to stay in enemy countries. |