4NAZI GERMANY - FORCED PROSTITUTION & RAPE

NAZI GERMANY - FORCED PROSTITUTION AND RAPE
'CASES NOT TRIED' AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

There are nine posts in this series on Nazi Germany. Each post touches briefly on the subject given that there are already numerous research papers, articles and books, covering each topic in depth. Many links are included in each post. For the reasoning behind writing these posts, read the Introduction HERE.

0 INTRODUCTION - Why this Series of Posts?

1 UN CHARTER & UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - Why WWII Drove The Creation Of The UDHR.

2 EUGENICS, RACIAL PURITY AND PERSECUTION - The US Influenced Nazi Germany's Eugenics Program. A Snapshot of the Diverse Groups Persecuted and Imprisoned in Concentration Camps. The Nuremberg Trial, Which Dealt With Racial Purity - RuSHA (USA vs. Ulrich Greifelt et al).

3 FORCED AND SLAVE LABOUR - Without Forced and Slave Labour the Nazi War Machine would have Collapsed and Brought the War to an Abrupt End. A Brief History of Forced and Slave Labour Before, During and After World War II. Details of The Nuremberg Trials for German Industrialists - Flick, Krupp and IG Farben.
4 FORCED PROSTITUTION, SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE - Sexual Crimes Were Not Tried at Nuremberg even though There Were Established Laws Condemning These Crimes. Information About Nazi Military Brothels and Concentration Camp Brothels. Evidence and Testimonies from Witnesses. Both Axis and Allied Forces were Guilty of Sexual Violence and Rape.

5 NAZI DOCTORS EXPERIMENTS AND TRIALS - The Nazi Doctors' Nuremberg Trial and Details of Their Experiments. Names of Nazi Doctors who Escaped Prosecution. Information about Post War Unethical Experiments Without Informed Consent, in the USA, Russia, South Africa and Israel.

6 STERILIZATION AND EUTHANASIA PROGRAMS - Life “Unworthy of Life” A Brief History of the Sterilization and the Euthanasia Programs and German Public Opposition. Using Cost Benefits Analysis in Nazi Medicine to Educate Children.
7 WORLD WAR II BY DESIGN – THE ECONOMY AND FOREIGN INVESTORS - An Important Component of Nazi Germany's War Infrastructure. Brief History of the German Economy and Hermann Goering's Four Year Plan. Role of Jewish Public Protests and their Boycott of German Goods in 1933 and Germany's Retaliatory Actions. The Real Role of Neutral Countries During the War. Post War Looting of German Patents, Cover Up of German Research on Tobacco and Cancer and the Removal/Kidnap of Nazi Experts to Allied Countries. The Role of Foreign Subsidiaries/Investors before and during World War II in Germany.
8 UNWCC (UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION) LAW REPORTS - The UNWCC prepared and published a 15 volume set of law reports covering 89 War Crimes Trials From World War II. This post contains links to all of these law reports and a list of the cases in each volume. Some information on CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects).

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FORCED PROSTITUTION AND RAPE
'CASES NOT TRIED' AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

We must not ignore the reasons why certain Concentration Camp Cases were Never Tried by Allied Forces even though there was ample evidence proving War Crimes had been committed. This post focuses on the conduct of both Axis and Allied forces during World War II.

WHICH LAWS PROHIBITED SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE BEFORE WORLD WAR II?

According to War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals By Kelly Dawn Askin

Rape had already been outlawed prior to the Nuremberg Trials. Rape was specifically prohibited in the Lieber code (1863) as a serious violation of the laws of war, there was evidence that previous war crimes trials had punished belligerents for sex crimes, and the Hague Conventions (1907) asserted that "family honour and rights.....must be respected".

In the IMT (International Military Tribunals) indictments for "war crimes", sexual assault could have fallen within the purview of "abduction of the civilian population......into slavery and for other purposes" and as "devastation unjustified by military necessity". Sexual assault clearly could have been prosecuted as a war crime under Article 6(b) of the IMT Charter (probably as customary law, certainly as "ill-treatment"), if the drafters and prosecutors had been so inclined, particular sexual assault crimes were included within the evidence submitted to the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Heinous offenses committed on the basis of gender were not, however, treated with the same seriousness, or with any degree of seriousness, and this discrepancy is striking.

One plausible theory is that rape crimes were not eagerly prosecuted because the Allies wanted to limit the prosecution of the Nazis and Japanese for crimes which were not likewise committed by Allied Troops, namely, mass extermination and crimes against peace, and not for crimes which were regularly committed by Axis and Allied Troops alike – most notably, rape crimes. (Askin)

In contrast, at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial “Importantly, rape was one of the war crimes with which some of the defendants were charged. The Tokyo indictment stated acts were “carried out in violation of recognized customs and conventions of war.....[including] mass murder, rape,....and other barbaric cruelties.” Thus at Tokyo, rape was prosecuted successfully under prohibitions against “inhumane treatment”, “ill treatment”, and failure to respect family honour and rights.” (Askin)

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WHY WERE GERMAN MILITARY BROTHELS ESTABLISHED?

Various reasons have been given for the creation of German Military Brothels, which used Forced Labour. To control the spread of venereal diseases, to reduce the risks associated with espionage through sexual contacts with enemy populations, to collect semen for later use and to reduce the likelihood of homosexual activity.

WHY WERE CONCENTRATION CAMP BROTHELS CREATED?

Camp brothels in concentration camps were established for reasons of motivating and rewarding forced/slave labour when they reached production goals. Privileged inmates also frequented these brothels. There was concern that homosexual relationships would rise in the camp environment if heterosexual sexual contact was denied.

WHAT EVIDENCE EXISTS PROVING SEXUAL CRIMES WERE COMMITTED?

From: War against Women - The Impact of Violence on Gender Relations (Swiss Peace Foundation, 1995, 158 p.) - Part III: Violence Against Women in Times of War in Europe - Rape of Women in Germany During and After World War II

Helke Sander's “Liberators Take Liberties” was presented at the Berlin film festival in 1992. Its main subject was the mass rape of women in Germany at the end of World War II. Women were raped by members of the Russian, Polish, French and American forces during and at the end of World War II. During their flight to the West and the period of expulsions, German girls and women were also raped by Czechs, Serbians and Slovenians. Before that German soldiers and members of the SS troops had been the rapists.

Approximately two million girls and women had been raped by the time the war was over; a careful estimate comes up with 100,000 cases in Berlin alone. Most of these cases occurred after January 1945 and during the taking of Berlin in April 1945. The offenders were members of the Red Army. As in most armies, rape was a punishable crime also in the Red Army because it is damaging to army discipline. There were, in fact, cases of prosecution and even summary executions.

487 American GI’s faced military courts for such crimes but the true figure will never be known. In her book “Against our Will”, Susan Brownmiller points out that American soldiers did not have to resort to rape because the sight of the Dollar presented sufficient means of coercion and temptation for hungry women in the liberated countries.

French soldiers were guilty of hundreds of cases of rape in Southern Germany, above all in Stuttgart, Pforzheim and Freudenstadt. .....research showed, however, that British soldiers were practically blameless in this respect.

After the war, the Western Allies showed little interest in bringing up the rapes by members of the Red Army because they would have had to question the behavior of their own troops as well.

Nazi propaganda had prepared German women to regard Russians as rapists but little credence was in fact given to these horror stories.

Ruth Andreas Friedrich, a journalist and underground fighter, wrote in her diary: “For four years Goebbels kept telling us that the Russians were rapists, that they would violate, murder, rob and pillage us. Such propaganda did not shock us and we looked forward to being liberated by the Allies. We did not want to be disappointed. We could not bear it when Goebbels turned out to be right.”

And what about German soldiers and the SS men? A German war veteran will tell you that Germans do not commit rape. There were so many cases of rape committed by SS men that the complaints from the top echelons of the Wehrmacht reached the very top. War records prove that rape was also committed by members of the Wehrmacht.

In order to control the spread of venereal diseases, brothels were set up for the Wehrmacht (approx. 500 throughout the war) and for SS officers where hundreds of girls and prostitutes, mostly of Polish and Russian origin, were forced to work (after March 1942, Jewish women were no longer allowed to work in brothels).

Forced prostitution and rape were common in concentration camps, female prisoners being mainly the victims. Documents presented at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 prove the fact that systematic acts of rape were committed by the German conquerors.

For this documentary, more than a hundred women talked about their unfortunate experiences at the end of the war and the consequences.

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In the Wikipedia article Sexual enslavement by Nazi Germany in World War II, hotels/brothels were known as German Soldier's Houses DSH, or in German Militärbordelle or Wehrmachtsbordell. It is estimated that a minimum of 34,140 women from occupied states were forced to work as prostitutes during the Third Reich. In most cases, especially in the East, the women were forced to serve as prostitutes after being caught at random on the streets in Łapankas (Nazi German military kidnapping raids against civilians in Poland).

The authors (Thomas Gaevert & Martin Hilbert) of a 2004 German documentary: Frauen als Beute: Wehrmacht und Prostitution - über den Missbrauch von Frauen in deutschen Militärbordellen (Women as Booty: Wehrmacht and Prostitution...) address the rape victims of German Wehrmacht Brothels. Many women remained silent about their experiences after the end of the war.

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One Exhibition (unfortunately now closed) Documented Forced Prostitution in Concentration Camps revealing the particularly sordid chapter from the history of the Nazi concentration camps: forcing female inmates to work as prostitutes for the benefit of male slave laborers.
Links Here to Spiegel Online International and Reuters

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SOME OF THE TESTIMONIES.......

Wendy Jo Gertjejanssen thesis covers the subject of German Military Brothels and Sexual Slavery in Concentration Camps in depth: VICTIMS, HEROES, SURVIVORS - SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON THE EASTERN FRONT DURING WORLD WAR II (PDF)

The following extracts come from testimonies taken after the war and filed as Cases Not Tried by the US Army.

MAX BEULIG was the Blockführer of the prisoners' brothel (Häftlingsbordell) in Buchenwald. His testimony can be found in the USHMMA, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives. Here follows some extracts from his testimony.

Max Beulig worked as the Blockführer from January 1944 to April 1945 in the prisoners’ brothel in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Beulig reported that he received his position from the Lagerführer, Hauptsturmführer Max Schobert. From what Beulig had heard, the installation of the prisoner brothel cost the German Reich 85,000 Reichsmarks. He also reported that in the time he worked at the brothel there were between ten and seventeen women working as prostitutes. Apparently, seven women were sent home, though this is not clear. No new women were "hired." The youngest woman was eighteen years old, the oldest thirty-six years. There were three Polish women, one woman was from the Saar, Jenny Christmann, but it is not clear if she was French or German since she spoke both languages. The other women and girls were all German. (P249)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

The Buchenwald prisoner brothel was opened “in July 1943 by order of the camp commander, Pister. Beulig also reported that the women ate the same food as the SS.” (P234)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

In his postwar interrogation, Beulig testified that the women all came from Ravensbrück, and that they all "volunteered" by seeking the commander of Buchenwald, Oberführer Pister out. Apparently, the women wanted this job because they were promised that they would be set free after one year. (PP231-232)
Source: Military Government Court, Max Beulig testimony, p. 3, 24 April 1947, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Beulig testified after the war that while he worked in the brothel between “ten and seventeen” women worked in the brothel, and each woman would get three or four men a night, but his overall visitor number was around thirty-five, which would be fewer men for the approximately eighteen to nineteen women. A political prisoner named Wolf was in charge of deciding how many men would visit each night. Apparently, he kept the count at a level where each woman received three or four men a night. (P240)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Beulig knew of two German women who became pregnant and had abortions performed after the third month. After three weeks in the hospital they returned to the brothel, rested for fourteen days and resumed work. (P238)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Their bedrooms had two beds, one dresser, one table, two chairs, a sink with running cold and warm water, pictures, and flowers. The working rooms were smaller than the bedrooms, and they had a chaise longue, a chair, pictures, a vase with flowers and a sink with running cold and warm water. (P236)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

This time frame is almost exactly what Beulig reported for Buchenwald, which was that the brothel was usually open from seven to ten in the evening, until all the men were “finished.” (P243)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

In Buchenwald men paid two Reichsmark until February 1944 when the SS reduced the price to one Reichsmark. Podszun also found the same. (P241)
Source: According to Beulig, he sat with one of the female supervisors, examined the entrance notice or ticket, and the man paid the supervisor. At the end of the evening, Beulig gave the money to the Rapportführer vom Dienst. Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1.

The men could not choose which woman to visit, but a prisoner named Wolf decided which women received which men. Beulig testified in 1947 that he changed this around according to the wishes of the prisoner (it is not clear if he meant female prisoner prostitute). (P243)
Source Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Beulig testified that the men did not mishandle the women. Apparently the prostitutes were assigned the same clients each week, once or twice. It was policy that a prisoner could only visit the brothel one time a week, but some were able to get permission for a second visit. (P243)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Beulig woke the women at seven in the morning (P245)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1. Frau W. said in the Buchenwald brothel they got up at eight. Paul, Zwangsprostitution, 55.

According to Beulig's testimony, three times a week the women had soup for supper. Russian prisoners would bring this to the brothel at six o'clock. The other days the two Russian prisoners would bring the evening meal at lunchtime. It usually consisted of sausage and butter or margarine. One of the female supervisors was in charge of the preparation for the cold evening meal, and the women received it in their rooms between five and six o'clock. (P246)
Source: Creecy, USHMMA, RG-06.005.05M, US Army Commands, Concentration Camp Cases Not Tried, NARA, Reel 5

There were two female German supervisors, one of which worked at the brothel outside of the camp for the Ukrainian SS where two Polish women were brought everyday. The other supervisor worked at the brothel inside the camp. One was forty-four years old, from Berlin and named Marte Gisze. She was also a prisoner and lived in the brothel. The other woman was forty-six years old, and according to Beulig's post-war testimony, the two supervisors did not mistreat the prostitutes. (PP249-250)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

The men were not allowed to stay overnight. It happened three or four times that Beulig punished a prisoner with a four-week ban on brothel visits because they fought with the women. Once a German prisoner climbed over the wooden partition and visited a woman, and he was punished for this. Once Max Beulig punished a German girl, Uschi Elebrecht, who had received a gold ring and a gold bracelet from the prisoner Hauptmann. He must have reported it to the Lagerführer, who then punished her with six days arrest. She spent the six days in a room in the brothel that was used as a broom cupboard. The room had one window and Beulig testified that he allowed her to have her bed, a table, a chair, and reading material. A female supervisor brought food to her. After the arrest, the girl worked as before. Beulig was unaware what happened to the prisoner who had gifted her the items. (P250)
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

There is discrepancy among the evidence as to whether the SS visited the camp brothels. According to Beulig, the SS did not visit the prisoner brothel in Buchenwald, although it was inspected a few times a week by the SS. Beulig claimed the SS did not use the brothel, but that several SS officers came a few times a week, allegedly to “inspect” the brothel. According to Beulig, there was no brothel at Buchenwald for German SS, only one for the SS Wachen, who were Ukrainian. Two Polish women worked in this brothel, and the German Sturmscharführer Partun was in charge. Beulig testified that Sturmbannführer Schober “inspected” the prisoner brothel every week, and that Schutzhaftlagerführer Obersturmführer Gust and Schutzhaftlagerführer Obersturmführer Merbach visited, as did Rapportführer Hofschulte, and Hauptscharführer Friedrich Wilhelm, but that no other SS visited because it was forbidden.
Source: Beulig, USHMMA, RG.06.005.05M, US Army Cases not Tried, Reel 1

Additionally, Dorothea Binz, one of the SS in charge at Ravensbrück, admitted to the US Army after the war to having sent women from Ravensbrück to brothels throughout the Reich. (P228)
Source: Earl W. Bachelor, Headquarters Third US Army and Eastern Military District Office of the Commanding General, Two-page Report of War Crime to Deputy Theater Judge Advocate, War Crimes Branch US Army APO 633, USHMMA, RG-06.005.05M, United States Army Commands, Concentration Camp Cases Not Tried, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Reel 5. In some documents her name is spelled Benz. It also says “houses of prostitution” but does not specify if this only means camp brothels. Since women were sent from Ravensbrück to different kinds of brothels, it could also mean to field brothels as well.

HANNS CHRISTIAN WITT, a survivor of Sachsenhausen, testified to the United Nations War Crimes Commission in 1945 that "girls and women from Women Concentration Camps were made to be prostitutes by SS-Members. They were guarded by beastly Women Nazi Guards in SS-uniform." (P247)
Source: United Nations War Crimes Commission, Research Office, Hanns Christian Witt testimony September 1945, USHMMA, RG-06.005.05M, Reel 5, Third US Army Cases Not Tried

HANNS CHRISTIAN WITT testified to the United States Army that especially barbaric was the treatment of the Polish, Russian, Jewish and political prisoners who had offended against §175 (law against homosexuality). Suspicion alone could lead to cruel death. Ninety five percent of all prisoners regardless of nationality who had been deposited in the [Hamburg-Neuengamme] concentration camp on ground of §175, died within an alarmingly short time without trial or justice because of the sadistic and bestial lust of the SS-Gangsters who indulged in (literally "INTOXICATED") satisfying their sadistic desire by watching the slow death agonies of their victims. (P163)
Source: Hanns Christian Witt, POW soldier, Testimony, page 2 of testimony, USHMMA, Record Group 06.005.05M, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, United States Army Commands, Concentration Camp Cases Not Tried, Reel 5. The “(literally "INTOXICATED")” is in original, probably a note from the translator. Heinz Heger also testifies in his anonymous memoir about the treatment of homosexuals in concentration camps. Heger, Pink Triangle. Yehiel Dinur also recorded material on the prostitutional relationships between men in Auschwitz. Yehiel Dinur (Ka-Tzetnik 135633), Piepel, trans. Moshe M. Kohn (London: Anthony Blond Ltd, 1961). See also Chapter Two for more detailed discussion of this aspect of camp life.

The United States Army investigating war crimes after the war documented that in 1941 the Nazis began to recruit "young and pretty girls" from the Ravensbrück concentration camp for houses of prostitution on the eastern front, primarily in areas occupied by the SS. Approximately 4,000-5,000 were forced to go, and many committed suicide, knowing their fate. This U.S. army investigation example describes the “girls” as being “ of all nationalities but mostly German.” It is certainly the case that the women were “of all nationalities,” but considering the numbers involved, the women, whether chosen from Ravensbrück, other camps, or from civilian areas in occupied territories, probably were not “mostly German.” (P187)
Source: USHMMA, RG-06.005.05M Reel 8 US Army Cases Not Tried. Both the original German text and the English translation exist on this reel.

This compilation of eyewitness testimony was presented at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, and yet little if any responsibility was taken for any sexual crimes the Germans committed in the east. (P300)
Source: It must be noted that even the cases of rape which did make it to Nuremberg War Crimes Trials were not prosecuted. In fact, no one was prosecuted for rape or other sexual violence. Human Rights Watch explains that “In the second set of Nuremberg war criminal trials, conducted under the authority of Control Council Law number 10, and in Article 6(c) of the Nuremberg Charter, rape was specifically enumerated as a crime against humanity,” but was not included because such crimes had “no nexus to war.” See Theodor Meron, “War Crimes in Yugoslavia and the Development of International Law,” American Journal of International Law, vol 88, no. 1, January 1994, pp. 84-87, quoted in Human Rights Watch/Africa and Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project, Shattered Lives, 33. Also quoted in Copelon, "Surfacing." See also Khushalani, Dignity, 13-18.


LINKS TO OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Sex with a Purpose: Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Militarized Masculinity in the Third Reich, 223-255 Annette F. Timm - Journal of the History of Sexuality Special Issue: Sexuality and German Fascism, 11, 1/2, January, 2002/April, 2002

Telling Sexual Stories in the Nazi Courts of Law: Race Defilement in Germany, 1933 to 1945, 131-163 - Patricia Szobar - Journal of the History of Sexuality Special Issue: Sexuality and German Fascism

Sex crimes under the Wehrmacht David Raub Snyder. - Lincoln, Neb. ; London : Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2007. - XIV, 287 p. (Studies in war, society) (PDF) HERE

"Rape: The Military Trials of Sexual Crimes Committed by Soldiers in the Wehrmacht, 1939-44," by Birgit Beck, PP 255-273 in Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany (eds), Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schiller-Springorum, London

US Government Archives - “549.2” Records of U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR) 1933-64
Records of the War Crimes Branch of the Judge Advocate General Section, including general administrative records, 1942-57; records relating to pre-trial activities, 1944-51, extradition, 1945-52, and medical experiments, 1933-47; war crimes case files ("Cases Tried"), 1945-59 (212 ft.); war crimes case files ("Cases Not Tried"), 1944-48 (195 ft.) etc


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Forced Human TRAFFICKING/Sexual Exploitation
This post focuses on the End Users/The Clients (military/civilian) of Trafficked victims in the 20th/21st Century, who have been forced into Prostitution and Sexually Exploited. It is important to recognize that the End Users/The Clients (military/civilian) are actually responsible for fueling the market in human flesh and forced prostitution in the first place and the treatment of victims by traffickers.

RAPE in the Armed Forces - During War and Peace Time

Josef Fritzl - Other Cases of Historical Abduction and Imprisonment of Adults and Children By Parents and Strangers

Go To This Post For Numerous UDHR Translations:
UDHR (Universal Declaration Of Human Rights) in Arabic, Czech, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish - Also Includes links to 359 translations of the UDHR.

0NAZI GERMANY - INTRODUCTION TO SERIES OF POSTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES OF NAZI GERMANY POSTS
Age Does Not Bring Wisdom. Life Long Ongoing Education and Enlightenment Does.

This post is part of a series covering World War II Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. My aims are to present

• Some of the reasons why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent HR Instruments Were Created
• To publicize ongoing Human Rights Abuses and the Perpetrators
• To register my own personal horrific experiences with family members and their associates, who are guilty of Human Rights Abuses and Violations as well as utter contempt for all legal boundaries and restrictions
  

World War II was supposed to be the War to End All Wars. Unfortunately there is wide spread intentional amnesia today, meaning the same crimes are being committed. Some people are also conveniently forgetting this era, often for reasons of securing financial profits, which are more often easily earned in environments where Human Rights Abuses are Rife and Ignored.

The nine posts in this series cover:

0 INTRODUCTION - Why this Series of Posts?

1 UN CHARTER & UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - Why WWII Drove The Creation Of The UDHR.

2 EUGENICS, RACIAL PURITY AND PERSECUTION - The US Influenced Nazi Germany's Eugenics Program. A Snapshot of the Diverse Groups Persecuted and Imprisoned in Concentration Camps. The Nuremberg Trial, Which Dealt With Racial Purity - RuSHA (USA vs. Ulrich Greifelt et al).
3 FORCED AND SLAVE LABOUR - Without Forced and Slave Labour the Nazi War Machine would have Collapsed and Brought the War to an Abrupt End. A Brief History of Forced and Slave Labour Before, During and After World War II. Details of The Nuremberg Trials for German Industrialists - Flick, Krupp and IG Farben.
4 FORCED PROSTITUTION, SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE - Sexual Crimes Were Not Tried at Nuremberg even though There Were Established Laws Condemning These Crimes. Information About Nazi Military Brothels and Concentration Camp Brothels. Evidence and Testimonies from Witnesses. Both Axis and Allied Forces were Guilty of Sexual Violence and Rape.

5 NAZI DOCTORS EXPERIMENTS AND TRIALS - The Nazi Doctors' Nuremberg Trial and Details of Their Experiments. Names of Nazi Doctors who Escaped Prosecution. Information about Post War Unethical Experiments Without Informed Consent, in the USA, Russia, South Africa and Israel.

6 STERILIZATION AND EUTHANASIA PROGRAMS - Life “Unworthy of Life” A Brief History of the Sterilization and the Euthanasia Programs and German Public Opposition. Using Cost Benefits Analysis in Nazi Medicine to Educate Children.
7 WORLD WAR II BY DESIGN – THE ECONOMY AND FOREIGN INVESTORS - An Important Component of Nazi Germany's War Infrastructure. Brief History of the German Economy and Hermann Goering's Four Year Plan. Role of Jewish Public Protests and their Boycott of German Goods in 1933 and Germany's Retaliatory Actions. The Real Role of Neutral Countries During the War. Post War Looting of German Patents, Cover Up of German Research on Tobacco and Cancer and the Removal/Kidnap of Nazi Experts to Allied Countries. The Role of Foreign Subsidiaries/Investors before and during World War II in Germany.
8 UNWCC (UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION) LAW REPORTS - The UNWCC prepared and published a 15 volume set of law reports covering 89 War Crimes Trials From World War II. This post contains links to all of these law reports and a list of the cases in each volume. Some information on CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects).

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SO WHY THESE POSTS IN THE 20TH/21ST CENTURY?

It is a fact, that we are surrounded by people who are living in an arrogant stupor of self importance and material influence. Sadly, some of these people regard an elementary education and the history of precedent, to be unnecessary (and even irrational!) for reasoned judgement and responsible actions.

In my first post in this series, I present the background to the creation of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Following World War II the UDHR in no uncertain terms declared a Blue Print, a Code of Conduct stating acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, for all nations in the 20th century and beyond. Unfortunately some countries and people today consider the UDHR to be a meaningless and insignificant document to guide their countries and lives. Why? These countries are enforcing human and primitive sub-human hierarchies, with divisions based on wealth, physical strength as well as ethnic origins. Persecution, discrimination, slavery and denial of equal rights/opportunities continue in these countries.

On a similar theme concerning the Denial of Equal Rights/Opportunities due to Female Physical Weakness, my post Ameneh Bahrami - Why Acid Attacks Will Continue on Muslim Women/Children in the 21st Century and Beyond - Inequality of Justice for the Physically Weak in Iran touches on the ongoing inequality of Justice and Rights For Women.

THE MEANING OF LIFE
How many people have fixed ideas about the Meaning of Life or are indifferent to the reasons, because they are content being clones, conforming to their social environment? Is it so unrealistic in the 21st century for all people to unite and reach a common agreement on the meaning of life and to agree on the optimal conditions required for human beings, in order for them to excel and demonstrate their true mental and physical capabilities?

THE MEANING OF LIFE - NO NEW MESSIAHS!
Religions have been the first to inform everyone about our origins and the reason for our existence. They have however been unable to make any important contributions to the fields of science, medicine and technology, bringing into question their access to a Superior Being, responsible for all aspects of our creation. If a religion can not provide for example, the cure for EPILEPSY, except through death, one must question the real purpose and function of many religions. All intelligent and rational human beings in the 21st century, need irrefutable evidence to believe something and it does not come alone through books.

We know many religions were created at a time when there was no mass media and no international opposition. If anyone were to claim to be a Messiah today, and they delivered revelations, unambiguous prophecies and real miracles for all of us, to see and experience, they would surely be attacked, silenced and destroyed. Why? Any New Messiah with such gifts is a serious threat to old established religions, who have failed to deliver anything to prove their proclamations and support their doctrine. For this reason, I see no chance of any new Religious Messiahs surviving. If anyone was in fact a Genuine Messiah, we can safely assume, all hell would break loose following their persecution and destruction. For those hoping for Armageddon, destroying a Genuine Messiah might actually serve their agenda. 21(or 12) December 2012 has been declared as a turning point for our planet - why, because all those 12s means something logical and rational?

As I recall during America's racist past, missionaries of God were also guilty of overt racism. As ever the weak conformed to the Majority; Christian Values and Sin faded into oblivion.

Given that religions have repeatedly failed to invoke their God in times of dire hardship and conflict over many centuries; man made intervention has been the only solution, hence the real need for organizations, such as the UN.

20TH CENTURY ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS - A LITTLE TOO LATE
Why has it taken so long to deliver certain accomplishments and achievements? If we were to identify what types of people have repeatedly put obstacles in the way of others, over the centuries, we might find the answer and remove these people permanently, in the interests of the advancement of human civilization.

Nobody can advance human civilization in any field, if education is denied and the historical building blocks of precedents are ignored, manipulated and/or even erased. Why would Anyone Manipulate and even Delete History? For self serving Reasons of Course. To ensure they maintain their rank and status in a hierarchy, preventing all interference from outside, with their decisions, interests and actions.

It was only in the 20th century, some countries and people delivered:
Electrification / Automobile / Airplane / Water Supply and Distribution / Electronics / Radio and Television / Agricultural Mechanization / Computers / Telephone / Air Conditioning and Refrigeration / Highways / Spacecraft / Internet / Imaging / Household Appliances / Health Technologies / Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies / Laser and Fiber Optics / Nuclear Technologies / High-performance Materials


BARRIERS/RESISTORS TO PROGRESS AND CHANGE
Classic resistors to ingenuity, creativity and positive change are those intent on enforcing their own education and status with a self serving agenda. These people are often with limited education and wisdom, holding illegitimate authority and superiority. They live in fear of more intelligent and educated individuals, usurping and removing them, permanently. With such blinkered arrogant idiots in power as leaders, whole countries and communities have been denied development and advancement. There has been much bloodshed.

RESISTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change/Global Warming is a recurring theme in the 21st century. What is the real problem here? Are humans so fearful of changing their established lifestyles, that they must resist everything that alters their surroundings including nature? Some Humans love to assume they are in control of their planet. What if climate change were to have no connection with Humans, at all?

HUMANS AND SUB-HUMANS (THE CATTLE/ANIMALS) HIERARCHIES
It goes without saying, human beings are incredibly expressive and rich in verbal communication and far more sophisticated mentally and physically than the animal kingdom. Why therefore are people still enforcing the behaviour of animals as role models for human beings: sexual reproduction and observed animal perversions, physical strength and ferocity, as well as power and domination as a group, over others. Naturally animals have a unique set of skills required for their own survival, which humans can learn from and should respect, but animals are not and never will be the blue print and reference point for levels of human intelligence, human behaviour and the limitations of Homo Sapiens.

Unfortunately some countries even EU countries (through their weak and irresponsible immigration policies) support these primitive hierarchical systems, enforcing the separation of humans from perceived sub-humans: those viewed as slave animals and considered below the human race in evolutionary development.

No Human Being is a Sub-Human!

The divisions of human and sub-human is often created and tied to differences in wealth and possessions. Given that wealth has often been accumulated through bloodshed, theft, corruption and inheritance, these are hardly rational grounds for assuming superiority over others and the ongoing enforcement of a sub class of human, who has been repeatedly denied equal opportunities and education.

People who drive human and subhuman divisions rarely if ever, make positive contributions and excel in the scientific, medical and technological fields. Only the fool is impressed by their Manipulative Public Image with the pomp and circumstance of Ceremonies. Its the 21st century, Wake Up Everyone.......Look beyond their attention seeking showy acts and the possessions, they parade.

Without education and interest in research to find solutions/cures for many problems of today including illness and disease, expect these types of people to pursue the most ignorant and laziest solution possible for everything: Destroy Life! Similar to Nazi Germany and their Sterilization and Euthanasia Programs. Other countries also adopted this approach as a cure before and after world war II.

Given that sub-humans are effectively viewed as animals, verbal communication with logic and reasoning is never used, just physical contact/violence, as if the human is a goat, donkey, cow or dog. It is assumed animals do not understand human communication. Perhaps those using violence also derive sadistic sexual gratification from exerting physical power over others. There are enough Weirdos in Western countries who engage in SM and bondage, for these perverted reasons.


HUMAN AND ANIMAL SLAVERY
Sub-humans today remain ongoing targets of racism, discrimination, persecution and the prevention of equal rights. Physical appearances and the roots of people, often play an influential role in the minds of ignorant and uneducated people. Poverty is often a sign of denied opportunities and lack of development, not imbecility and stupidity. In the right circumstances, people of poverty are able to excel.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
I am highlighting all of these topics given that they tie into personal experiences, which are explained later, in Playing Both Sides. Perhaps one day, people I have known, will wake up from their drunken stupor/coma of delusional superiority and recognize how irrelevant they are in the 21st century and why many reasonably intelligent civilized human beings, will REFUSE to be identified and associated with them and their heinous and despicable deeds, including myself.

Based on my experiences, there are various actions, which prove human and sub-human divisions are being enforced. Firstly, the most obvious one being acts of violence, sexual and physical abuse, instead of using and respecting verbal communication. Secondly, denying salary payments to staff/servants, even though they have dependent families to feed and clothe. Those withholding payment have no concern for the lives they impact, harm and destroy. Imprisoning staff/servants and denying them fundamental freedoms and rights of access to health care as well as communication with law enforcement. During family dining and feasting, food is thrown on the floor for the sub-humans/slaves to pick up and eat for themselves. If the slaves/sub-humans are being deprived of food, their Natural Survival Instinct will be to consume. Obviously this type of public act is to prove to everyone present, that staff/slaves are sub-humans, in fact animals, unclean, unhygienic, unfit and undeserving of any respect.

Another component of these environments are acts of parents selling their children into slavery, given that humans even family members, are judged to be a monetary value: either they are an income or an expense throughout their lives. Being an expense means a person is far more likely to become a victim of honour violence and killing.

When your own blood relations are guilty of supporting and enforcing these human and sub-human divisions, clearly something extremely serious has to be done to Them, To Stop Them and To Expose Them as Examples For Everyone. Clearly World War II taught some of my Blood Relations and Their Associates Absolutely Nothing. What Will Teach Them and Everyone Protecting and Retaining Them, In The Very End?

LEGAL INSTRUMENTS DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES OF CIVILIZED BEHAVIOUR

Often created as a result of tumultuous and catastrophic events, Human Rights instruments have been implemented to set and maintain certain standards of acceptable civilized behaviour, as well as to educate, warn and prevent further barbarity and atrocities, committed during war and peace time.

Let us not forget, A civilized nation and group of people is judged by how it treats human beings and the rights it bestows on all, AS EQUALS. In addition a country is judged by the laws it implements and the success of its punishment acting as a permanent deterrent to all, AS EQUALS.

Obviously Legal instruments apply to all : government servants, religions, people with title, public status and of wealth. Some people like to assume they are above all laws..... Why is that? Everyone is aware of the reasons why World War II was responsible for the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), given that there was global damnation of atrocities committed. Many victims of World War II, fortunately lived to give testimony at the Nuremberg Trials and other post war trials.

The UDHR has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects and is widely accessible. Therefore nobody has any excuse that they were not able to access and read the contents in their native language. At the time of its adoption in 1948, the UN Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and

"to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."

For those ignoring this significant document today we know the reasons... They are selfishly preoccupied with their illegitimate status and obsession with excessive Financial/Material Profiteering: GREED, which is more easily obtained in countries where human rights abuses are rife.

CROSSING BOUNDARIES AND LIMITS

Hitler used War to justify committing certain crimes against humanity, in the belief that being the eventual Victors, Nazi Germany would not be subjected to trivial International Laws and Tribunals. He was wrong.

Various sources mention that Hitler did not believe he could successfully implement the Euthanasia Program in Germany during peacetime. As he later discovered, even during war, the shortage of beds for wounded soldiers, was not a rational and responsible argument even for the German Folk. Once this secret program became public, there was German condemnation. The program was officially closed down as a result of public protests. Silent acts of euthanasia nonetheless continued on a local level until the end of the war.

In peace time today, there are several countries and communities, which are responsible for the same types of atrocities and human rights abuses, committed during WWII. They are of course not on the same scale but at individual level and often in private. Is this the reasoning why certain countries provided refuge to some escaped Nazis and they continue today to remain silent about who is actually residing in their legal jurisdiction? Soul Mates of Sorts.

INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES

Hitler made a rather apt remark about the conduct of a German business during the war which I believe reflects the attitude and behaviour of some international joint ventures today. IG Farben's conduct at Auschwitz is best described by a remark of Hitler: "What does it matter to us? Look away if it makes you sick." IG Farben (Industrialist) Nuremberg Trials. Is this not how various western companies are behaving, given their willingness to enter joint ventures with countries, that have a long history of "Undemocracy" and human rights violations?

Today, Western Profiteers ingratiate themselves with dictators, undemocratically elected leaders and oligarchs, (even providing refuge to some of these foreigners at a later date) in the pursuit of securing large profits, contracts and satisfying irresponsible self induced resource dependence, in western countries. To harmonize and maintain these relationships and secure further lucrative contracts and minimize competition, all sorts of Kick Backs, Bribes, Fees and Commissions are paid To People, Who Don't Even Need The Money! True Greed. So thats how they secured this Arms Deal.....

It is of no consequence to these Western Profiteers and their Partners how the local population is treated, whether they are slave or forced labour, whether they are tortured, imprisoned, killed or even charged with crimes they never committed. These Rampant Profiteers, these Blatant Opportunists have no conscience. Their financial rewards, blood money and commissions are then safely deposited in distant offshore financial center/tax havens, far from the Seeing Eye of Their Own Countries.

Am I being too hard on those who supposedly take significant business risks? I don't believe so. Nazi Germany was able to construct the infrastructure for a War Machine within SIX YEARS of coming to power. Allies can become the Enemies of the future. Foreign investors played an important role in the build up to World War II and the construction of Nazi Germany's Infrastructure. They turned a blind eye to everything, all in the name of profits and greed.

My previous post about International Joint Ventures with the Burma/Myanmar Junta is a present day example of Global Greed Merchants in action. Some Foreign Companies like to claim they are helping to introduce a democracy, when in reality they are maintaining the current regime financially and the lifestyle of the military leaders.

GO TO - International Joint Ventures with the Burma/Myanmar Junta Capitalizing on Grief, Death & Human Rights Violations and Business & Human Rights Resource Center - Tracking The Positive & Negative Impacts of Over 4,000 Companies Worldwide

REAL JEKYLL AND HYDE CHARACTERS

The concept of greed is not limited to western companies investing in undemocratic regimes with unacceptable human rights standards. Individuals in western countries are also willing partners with the perpetrators of human rights abuses, for the selfish motive of easy financial earnings and material gain. I will provide a simple and real example of my experiences with my own blood relations and their associates, demonstrating how disturbed and sick some people really are. I use the term Playing Both Sides because it aptly describes their conduct, over many years. Public Statements Versus Private Actions.

BLOOD RELATIONS & THEIR ASSOCIATES
PLAYING BOTH SIDES - ON THE ONE HAND - IN PUBLIC
When People Play Both Sides - People End Up Seriously Injured and Even Dead

For public consumption and manipulation, some people deliver attention seeking emotional stories about being victims of historical conflicts and oppression. For the uneducated fool they instantly believe these stories without ever investigating the truth, for themselves. Of Course there are genuine victims, but not all. These attention seekers continue to deliver virulent hatred, intolerance and contempt for their supposed former oppressor(s), throughout their lives. They repeatedly attack them for the crimes they have committed and the inhumane treatment of innocent people. They throw in religion buzz words, to influence people of their sincerity and validity. They even dare lecture people about Religion and Sin including absurdities about the poison of tea, coffee, alcohol and even soft drinks. You must be an alcoholic if you drink any alcohol. If only Realism, Evidence, Transparency and Balance were their human qualities.

ON THE OTHER HAND – IN PRIVATE

On the Other Hand, there is a completely different situation, in private. Behind closed doors, these people, while full of loathing for human rights abusers in public, are actually guilty of the very same crimes, in private, as well as responsible for standing by and protecting other perpetrators. They intentionally forget the dreadful and harrowing experiences of family members during the war (Several imprisoned in concentration camps, Nazi Doctors' Experiments, Forced Prostitution, etc). These facts and painful experiences of other family members are completely ignored, written off, disregarded, thrown out with the garbage.

New innocent victims are subjected to similar experiences and cruelty, but it is of no consequence even when established laws condemn such acts in their country. They have no conscience.....for financial reasons, it has been ERASED.

What are their Motives for Forgetting and Ignoring History?

To put it simply: Obsessive Financial Greed and Blatant Materialism. The people they choose to associate with, are sources of easy financial benefits, material rewards and gifts. This is in fact their only motive for forming relationships with these wealthier associates. They have a history of establishing such relationships in the hope..... Even when someone dies, they are still trying to profit from them.

They do not care if the people who provide financial and material profits, are Criminals, responsible for Human Rights Violations and Grotesque Inhumane Treatment of Innocent People, in their country or elsewhere including the Middle East.

While parading themselves in public as sophisticated, educated and civilized people and delivering stories about their (private) school education, these stories fail to encompass real facts, such as they failed to complete their elementary education - they didn't taken any exams at school and they were also often absent from school. They don't tell anyone they were sent to another school and put back a year, in order to take elementary exams. Yet again they withdrew, demonstrating public education is completely irrelevant to them (like the parents), when money and materialism are easily derived from some people, on the street.

DOUBLE STANDARDS

They might well be implicated in or even directly responsible for the death of people and malicious permanent injury. They do not care. They have no conscience. There might be victims of sexual assaults and rape as well, but instead of protecting the victim, stopping the perpetrators and preventing further victims, they stand by and protect the perpetrators.

On the one hand they parade in public their love and concern for vulnerable children. On the other hand in private, they have been grossly negligent and abandoned a child, whose end would have been to euthanasia, in the hands of doctors. They never tell anyone in public what they have done with this child and why. Yet another indication that human beings are simple monetary values in their lives and they are genuinely playing both sides.

As We All Know, A Locked Door May Hide Various Secrets. We Don't Always Need A Key When There Are Many Windows To Look Through.

Much would have become evident to outsiders, if they pursued identifying the number of sham marriages these people had engaged in and their motives for these relationships, in the first place. Outsiders would have noticed there was also an interest in adopting another name and an image associated with a partner, in the belief, a marriage would elevate their social standing and long term financial rewards.

It is an abundant source of immense anger to me that these people even tried to marry me into this uncivilized human rights abusive ridden environment, to a person I had never met. For them, the marriage was about personal rewards for themselves and profiteering from a passport, money and even property. They ignored the long term real fact about my true character and that I have never been influenced and motivated by materialistic possessions nor by wealth. They refused to acknowledge reality - the fact that I have never allowed anyone to throw money in my face, to buy friendships, sex and allegiances, which is part of their everyday lives. For them relationships = £$ and little else.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Here lies some of the boundaries and limits for people who persist with playing both sides. Both Business and Individual Greed Merchants despise education, balance, objectivity and law enforcement. For Sure, All Of These People Will Stick Together especially if they have committed Mortal Crimes! They will attack everyone who pursues exposing the Truth About Them, Their JVs and Their Lies. Why is it some people think they can get away with Murder........it has something to do with their relationships and connections.....

YOU CAN NEVER STOP LEARNING, EXPERTS!

As mentioned, I personally know of victims (family members) who were subjected to barbaric crimes during World War II. Cases covering Most of the crimes were tried, at the Post War Trials in Nuremberg, Germany and Poland. I will not relay the stories of family victims, given the pain it will cause. I know what they were forced to endure and will remain with them for the rest of the lives.

Fortunately there is a huge amount of documented information in public circulation. There are numerous educational resources and materials containing well researched articles, personalized historical accounts, testimonies and the photographic evidence used at the Nuremberg Trials. Everyone has free access to this information as well as their country's state and international laws.

THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION

One day, some people will say an Important Test was set in 1994 to catch everyone with my blood relations and their religious and business associates, given that their public communications and lies with their manipulated public appearances, were not reflecting their private actions, business dealings, in fact reality, at all. There was only one way to prove and expose the truth about THEM. In situations of death, serious injury, corruption, acts of racism and persecution, blatant human rights abuses, crimes and even destitution, they were all tested - there was only one way to prove their real reactions, the depths of their own souls, their lies and the crimes they had committed. Every time they refused to recognize The Gravity of Each Situation, How Their Actions Were Directly Responsible and The Long Term Consequences - every time it was selfish opportunism and profiteering, cover ups, self protectionism with proof of intent to Pervert the Course of Justice and Prevent All Law Enforcement. An established pattern throughout their lives. Needless to say some religions and their members proved they are playing both sides and revealed their true colours.

Go To This Post For Numerous UDHR Translations:
UDHR (Universal Declaration Of Human Rights) in Arabic, Czech, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish - Also Includes links to 359 translations of the UDHR.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT PATRIOTISM – IN WORD BUT NEVER IN DEED

How often do we encounter people who claim to be Great Patriots, but only IN WORD and never IN DEED? Everyone knows Real Patriots, first and foremost, Respect and Uphold the Established Laws of their country and even know the history behind their creation. They know the enforcement of this Legal Code of Conduct is responsible for protecting and advancing their own country, and respect is a condition of being identified as a True Patriot.

When (fake) patriots (including titled people, monarchists, the wealthy and religious figures) ignore established laws and international legal obligations, in addition to avoiding taxation and hiding their true sources of wealth, by depositing funds outside their country (in tax havens/offshore financial centers), we know we are dealing with False Patriots and potentially serious national security risks, as well.

The most famous of British Traitors have had very English Surnames - Far Greater Trust has been placed on Words and Names instead of Deeds, by uneducated and irresponsible idiots employed or retained by governments and people in authority. As for Patriotism in the minds and actions of immigrants who are Economic Migrants/Financial Profiteers, forget it, it doesn't exist.

The Patron Saint and Supposed Great Patriot of England, St George has always had many conflicting loyalties. St. George is also the Patron Saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow; Scouting, as well as a wide range of professions, organizations, disease sufferers and one of the most prominent Military Saints.

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When Greed and Materialism overrides common sense, objectivity and responsible judgement as well as enforcement of all state and international laws; SOMEWHERE - SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE! I have turned My Key. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

The British Fritzl - Another Perverted Gaffer/Father

THE BRITISH FRITZL

Another Perverted "Gaffer" (Father) with A Female Accomplice (His Wife)
What are their Names? Unfortunately the old method of Naming and Shaming in public has disappeared in order to protect the victims.

This man and woman were clearly unfit parents, so why were they allowed to have children?

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BRITISH FRITZL WHO RAPED DAUGHTERS OVER 1,000 TIMES

Daily Express - 26 November 2008

........The 56-year-old, who has been compared to the notorious Austrian Josef Fritzl, was given 25 life sentences for the horrific catalogue of rapes and abuse he inflicted on his children..............

25 life terms for 'British Fritzl - The Independent - 25 November 2008

Authorities had numerous chances to intervene in the rape of two daughters by their father.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, impregnated his daughters 19 times, with seven children surviving. All of them have health problems related to genetic abnormalities.

The elder daughter became pregnant seven times and has two surviving children. Her sister had 12 pregnancies and has five surviving children. Two of the sisters' babies died the day they were born.

1988 - Teachers become suspicious when injuries are noticed on the face of one of the girls at school, but they are subsequently blamed on bullying. The other daughter stays away from school with a broken arm. During this time, and on several occasions over the next 14 years, doctors raise concerns with the sisters about abnormalities in the foetuses of their unborn children. One doctor tells a daughter not to have any more children with the same man and questioned the children's paternity. Any involvement with the father is disputed. DNA tests were not carried out.

Early 1990s The family move from South Yorkshire to live in small villages in Lincolnshire.

1997 The brother of the two women goes to police with "hearsay evidence" of incest. Police look into the claim but no further action is taken.

1998 One of the daughters phones ChildLine in an attempt to report the ongoing abuse. She asks for a guarantee that the sisters would be able to keep their children but hangs up when that cannot be given.

2004 The family move back to South Yorkshire, and while social services again become involved, the abuse is not detected.

June 2008 The case comes to the attention of authorities. The father is arrested.


Other Sources of Information

How two girls were trapped by shame, fear and the love of their own children - The Times - 26 November 2008

Britain's Fritzl: The professionals who failed to act - Daily Mail - 26 November 2008

RAPIST DAD: Mother turned blind eye to years of harm - The Star - 26 November 2008

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Here lies a story demonstrating exactly why many countries should stop claiming they are role models of an advanced civilization. Their Behaviour, Attitudes and Depravity is straight out of biblical times and not reflective of any Lessons Learned and the 21st Century.

Refer to my post HISTORICAL CASES OF ABDUCTION, IMPRISONMENT, SEXUAL ABUSE & MURDER OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN By Parents and Strangers

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END NOTE

Does this British Gaffer and his wife, have names with religious connotations, just like "RoseMARY" and "JOSEF", the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION "FRITZL?

Refer to my post Josef Fritzl and UK v Osman.

RAPE in the Armed Forces - During War and Peace Time

LEFT: Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20 and Cpl. Cesar A. Laurean, 21.

A Tragic Story of Rape, Pregnancy and Murder.

RAPE: An Instrument of Armed Conflict by the Military During War and Peace Time.

This Post TRAFFICKING/Sexual Exploitation - The End Users/The Clients Are As Guilty As The Traffickers! is directly connected to this topic.


RAPE IN TIMES OF WAR
Rape, in the course of war, dates back to antiquity, ancient enough to have been mentioned in the Bible. The Israelite, Greek, Persian and Roman troops would routinely rape women and boys in the conquered towns.

Rape as Means of Warfare
During war, rape is often used as means of psychological warfare in order to humiliate the enemy and undermine their morale. Rapes in war are often systematic and thorough, and military leaders may actually encourage their soldiers to rape civilians. Systematic rapes are often employed as a form of ethnic cleansing.

Historical Examples
There are numerous cases of rapes conducted on Jewish women and girls by German soldiers during the Invasion of Poland.

Rapes were also committed against Polish women and girls during mass executions made primarily by Selbstschutz, which were accompanied by Wehrmacht soldiers and on territory under administration of the German military, the rapes were made before shooting female captives.

Thousands of Soviet female nurses, doctors and field medicians fell victim to brutal German rapes when captured during the war, and often they were murdered afterwards. Wehrmacht also ran brothels where some of the women were forced to work.

Ruth Seifert in War and Rape: Analytical Approaches writes, "In the Eastern territories the Wehrmacht used to brand the bodies of captured partisan women - and other women as well - with the words 'Whore for Hitler's troops' and to use them accordingly."

Norman Naimark writes in "The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949." The exact number of women and prepubescent girls who were raped by members of the Red Army in the months preceding and years following the capitulation will never be known.

German women who became pregnant after being raped by Soviet soldiers in World War II were invariably denied abortion to further humiliate them as to carry an unwanted child. As a result, according to the book Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor, some 90% of Berlin women in 1945 had venereal diseases as results of consequential rapes and 3.7% of all children born in Germany 1945-1946 had Russian fathers. The history behind this particular rape of the German women by the Soviet troops was considered a taboo topic until 1992. (see Red Army atrocities)

Additionally, in China during World War II, the Nanking Massacre occurred, where rape was used as a tool to humiliate the civilians under Japanese oppression. As many as 80,000 women were raped by the Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of the Nanking Massacre. Comfort women is a euphemism for up to 200,000 women, who were forced into prostitution in Japanese military brothels.

According to a review of "The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II", rape is seen as a method for soldiers to bond with each other, and also to enhance their aggressiveness, and it also "reflects a burning need to establish total dominance of the other" [the enemy]. As a consequence U.S. soldiers rape of Japanese women was "general practice". "The estimate of one Okinawan historian for the entire three-month period of the campaign exceeds 10,000. A figure that does not seem unlikely when one realizes that during the first 10 days of the occupation of Japan there were 1,336 reported cases of rape of Japanese women by American soldiers in Kanagawa prefecture alone". (see also Allied war crimes during World War II)

French Moroccan troops known as Goumiers, committed rapes and other war crimes after the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II. (See Marocchinate.)

During the Yugoslavian Civil War, it was reported that Serbian soldiers herded enemy women into camps, who were then raped on a daily basis until pregnancy occurred.

It has been alleged that an estimated 200,000 women were raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War by the Pakistani army, though this has been disputed by many including the Indian academic Sarmila Bose.

Since the humanitarian crisis began in 2003, women in the western Sudanese state of Darfur have been subjected to rape and other forms of gender-based violence perpetrated by the government-backed Janjawid militia, as well as other armed troops. In many cases, women have been publicly raped in front of their husbands, relatives or the wider community. Pregnant women have not been spared and those who have resisted rapes were reportedly beaten, stabbed or killed. Women and girls as young as eight years old have been abducted during attacks and forced into sexual slavery in the Janjawid military camps. The strong cultural, social, and religious taboos against rape in Darfur make women reluctant to speak out and often cause them and their children to be ostracized by their community.

NB Wartime propaganda often alleges mistreatment of the civilian population by enemy forces and allegations of rape figure prominently in this, as a result it is often very difficult both practically and politically to an accurate view of what really happened.

In 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) for Rwanda established by the United Nations made landmark decisions (Prosecutor v. Akayesu) stating rape and sexual violence is a crime of genocide under international law. In one judgement Navanethem Pillay said: "From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send out a strong message that rape is no longer a trophy of war." An estimated 500,000 women were raped during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

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Rape and Sexual Violence in the Context of International Law
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes as rape those situations where the victim is deprived of her(/his) ability to consent to sex, including providing sex to avoid harm or to obtain basic necessities.

The Rome Statute recognizes rape and other forms of sexual violence by combatants in the conduct of armed conflict as war crimes. When rape and sexual violence are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, they are considered crimes against humanity, and in some cases may constitute an element of genocide.

The widest definition of rape in international law was provided by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which stated that rape consists of a physical invasion of a sexual nature, committed on a person under coercive circumstances. Sexual violence, including rape, is not limited to physical invasion of the human body and may include acts that do not involve penetration or even physical contact. Although the ICTR included the crime of rape as a crime against humanity, it omitted rape from other categories of crimes. The Rome Statute, however, recognizes gender crimes (including rape) as war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Many acts of sexual violence - including rape, gang rape, abduction and sexual slavery, forced marriage, forced pregnancy, forced maternity, and sexual mutilation - constitute torture under customary international law. These acts are considered war crimes and constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION & FURTHER READING

DURING WAR

Wiki - Types of Rape
UN Denounces Rape as Weapon of War - AFP - 19 June 2008
When Rape Becomes Genocide - New York Times - 5 September 1998 - Opinion
Rape As A Tool of War - Amnesty International
Women and Armed Conflict; International Justice - Human Rights Watch
Rape As a Crime in International Humanitarian Law: Where To From Here?
European Journal of International Law - Vol. 13 (2002) No. 3 - Rosalind Dixon
Bosnian Children Born of War Rape Asking Questions - MSNBC - 31 May 2005
More than decade later, some learn painful truth
Bosnia's Rape Babies: Abandoned by Their Families, Forgotten by the State
The Independent (UK) - 13 December 2005

Victims' Relatives Battle to Sue UN over Srebrenica Massacre

The Times Newspaper (UK) - 19 June 2008

DURING PEACE TIME

All the following stories originate from the US. Why? The media is more open to reporting Sexual Crimes in the US Armed Forces, compared to other countries.

1995 Okinawan Rape Incident
The 1995 Okinawan rape incident refers to a rape that took place on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill and U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp and Kendrick Ledet, all from Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old 6th-grade Japanese girl.

Does a Rapist Deserve a Military Burial?
Honoring a convicted sex predator who killed himself behind bars sends a chilling message to victims. - LA Times - 23 January 2008 By Anne K. Ream

Rape in the U.S. military - How a fraternal culture and a habit of blaming the victim leave sexual violence unexamined and unpunished. LA Times - 30 January 2008 By Lucinda Marshall

A Wave of Sexual Terrorism In Iraq
Behind the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family lies a far larger story of what's happened to women in Iraq since they were 'liberated' by the Bush administration. AlertNet - 14 July 2006 By Ruth Rosen

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Army Rape Accuser Speaks Out
Says She Was Treated 'Like A Criminal' By The Army
CBS News 60 Minutes - 20 February 2005

The eight-year veteran of the New Jersey National Guard had been AWOL for two months after refusing to return to Camp Shelby, Miss., where she says she was sexually assaulted by another lieutenant after a night of drinking with friends at the Officers Club.

"He raped you," asks Kroft.

"Yes," says Dyer.

"Is there any way he could have misinterpreted your intentions?" asks Kroft.

"I don't feel it's possible to misinterpret, 'No, don’t do this. Or stop.' Those are the words that I used again and again,” says Dyer.

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Sexual Assault in the Shadows The Boston Globe 12 September 2004
Male Victims in Military cite Devastating Impact on Career, Life

Male (and Female) Rape in the Military Florida Today Report By Alan Snel
Male Sex Abuse Revealed in Ranks - Thousands of male veterans report enduring sexual trauma during their military careers. By Alan Snel

Rape Hobbles Bush Administration Policies 26 May 2008 By Ann Wright

Airman Gets 50 Years in Rape Case 1 March 2007
Air Force captain sentenced to 50 years in prison for raping 4 men and attempting to rape two others. Taylor was convicted of two counts of attempted sodomy, four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of kidnapping and one count of unlawful entry. Four of his victims were in the military and two were civilians. "Taylor's only crime was being gay in the military and violating the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans people who are openly gay from serving in the armed forces", his civilian attorney, Martin Regan said.

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