Regina Muhlhauser

Sex and the Nazi Soldier (eBook, PDF)

Violent, Commercial and Consensual Encounters during the War in the Soviet Union, 1941-45
Übersetzer: Spengler, Jessica

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sexual violence was a widespread reality during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union: Wehrmacht soldiers and SS men made women and girls victims of sexual torture, committed rape and sexual enslavement. They also visited both 'secret' prostitutes and official military brothels, and had encounters with women who were forced to trade sex for protection or food. In some areas, they engaged in consensual relations, which sometimes led to applications for marriage permits.This book dispels the myth that military leaders, in adhering to the Nazi ideology of 'race defilement', strictly repressed soldiers' sexuality. Regina Muhlhauser opens up new perspectives on the complexity of wartime sexual practices beyond the Nazi case by looking at the whole spectrum of heterosexual encounters-forced and consensual, violent and non-violent, commercial and non-commercial. In doing so, she develops a more nuanced understanding of soldiers' sexual behavior and the ways in which military commands assess soldierly sexuality and integrate it into their strategic thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474459099
• Artikelnr.: 72429085

Autorenporträt

Regina Mühlhäuser is a Senior Researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture and a founder of the 'International Research Group "Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict"'. Jessica Spengler is a German to English translator specialising in the humanities and social sciences, who has worked as a translator and copyeditor on numerous museum exhibitions, academic publications and other projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Map: Eastern Europe before World War II
1. Introduction: War, Violence, Sexuality
Points of Departure
Sources on Sexual Encounters
Private Photographs by Wehrmacht Soldiers, Part 1
2. Sexual Violence
Forms and Functions of Sexual Violence
Situations
Negotiations in the Military
3. Sexual Transactions
Occasional Sexual Bartering
Professional Prostitution
Persecution of Women 'Suspected of Prostitution'
Disciplining Wehrmacht Soldiers
Appeals to SS Men
Wehrmacht Brothels
4. Consensual Relations
The Men's Desire for Normality
The Women's Desire for New Experiences
Regulation by the Wehrmacht
SS Directives
Negotiations Regarding Marriage Applications
Rhetoric of Defeat
Private Photographs by Wehrmacht Soldiers, Part 2
5. Occupation Children
Population Policy Strategies
Control Measures
6. Concluding Remarks: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the War and
Post-War Period
7. Epilogue: What Can We Learn from the Nazi Case?
Racist 'Pollution Taboos'
Conflicting Military Interests
Sexual Violence and Sexuality
Soldiers' Corporeality
Sexual Violence as a Weapon
Bibliography
Index