To browse Academia. In both World Wars, the German armies enacted a prostitution policy in all the occupied territories of Western and Eastern Europe.
Through a comparative study, this article uses archival research in Poland, France, Belgium and Germany as well as existing studies in five languages to examine the continuities and discontinuities in German prostitution policies between the Western and the Eastern territories during both wars. Despite these continuities, prostitution policies were even more regressive during the Second World War, with the racial ideology of Nazism as the main trigger for the brutalisation of prostitution policies.
German authorities pushed the system to greater extremes, overseeing its evolution from control to terror. Maren Roeger. Sexual policies were a core component of the National Socialist racial policies, both in the Altreich territories considered part of Nazi Germany before , as well as in the occupied territories.
But this model of absolute racial segregation was never truly implemented. This paper attempts to show that there existed a wide range of sexual contacts between the occupiers and the local inhabitants, with the focus here being on consensual and forced contacts sexual violence as seen against the backdrop of National Socialist policies.
This article positions itself at the intersection of the history of everyday life Alltagsgeschichte , the history of sexuality and the gender history of the German occupation of Poland โ perspectives that have rarely been used with regard to this region.
