What Really did the Germans with Captured Female Soviet soldiers? – Part 6

Some of these women were selected directly from their barracks.

It was not uncommon for SS officers to arrive drunk at night and handpick a few of the younger Soviet girls to be transferred to Canada.

There are many reports of the same girls crying inconsolably upon returning to their barracks.

Others, however, did not return and were kept at Canada indefinitely, at least as long as the officers were happy with them.

SS men felt that they were the absolute masters of the fate of these women.

They controlled the sexual, physical, and emotional aspects of their lives, making them feel absolute and constant humiliation.

Since the German racial laws were passed in 1935, it was illegal as well as immoral for a pure German to be married or even have intercourse with someone from an inferior race.

But this did not prevent SS men from attacking night after night.

The girls in Canada, the certainty of impunity and large quantities of alcohol gave these officers a feeling of omnipotence.

They thought they were above the law and thus were allowed to do whatever they wanted with these poor Jewish women.

The rate of survival inside Canada may have been higher than in any other block at Auschwitz, but the price to pay was too high.

Several female ex-prisoners have since testified that they would have preferred to die before having to go through the hell that was lived inside Canada.

However, it is possible that we will never really know the truth of what happened behind those walls.

This is due to the silence and complicity of the SS men who took advantage of the prisoners during the war, but also because many victims who survived this hell preferred to keep the secret rather than tell the lurid details of the sexual assaults of which they were victims.

The pattern of behavior of the SS men toward the women of Auschwitz fits the behavior of many soldiers toward enemy women, seeing them as an indefensible instrument for perpetrating unspeakable revenge.

Furthermore, although their actions were punishable by law, most of the time, they got away with it.

Ghard Palich, one of the report officers at the Auschwitz-Banaue camp, was one of the SS men known to have had sexual relationships with Jewish prisoners in the camp.

He was reported and arrested, but almost certainly thanks to the influence of Himmler, he was punished merely by being transferred to a subcamp away from Auschwitz.

Many SS men avoided this kind of punishment thanks to choosing Soviet women over Jewish ones.

Women Soviet partisans sabotaging Nazi plans.

As soon as the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the people in most cities and towns organized themselves to fight the invaders.