Behold He Comes: Nazi Sex Slaves

Yesterday I talked about the institutionalized slavery in the Japanese Empire. Nazi Germany did the same thing. Similar to Japan who began by recruiting prostitutes, Germany took over existing brothels. But as with Japan, that was not enough, so kidnappings occurred to fill the brothels. 

A Nazi RaidThe Foreign Ministry of the Polish Government in Exile issued a document on May 3, 1941, describing the mass kidnapping raids conducted in Polish cities with the aim of capturing young women for sexual slavery in new brothels attended by German soldiers and officers. At the same time, Polish girls as young as 15, classified as suitable for slave labor and shipped to Germany, were sexually exploited by German soldiers usually at their place of destination.

It was often unofficial and “consensual.” 

The Swiss Red Cross mission driver Franz Mawick wrote in 1942 from Warsaw about what he saw: “Uniformed Germans [...] gaze fixedly at women and girls between the ages of 15 and 25. One of the soldiers pulls out a pocket flashlight and shines it on one of the women, straight into her eyes. The two women turn their pale faces to us, expressing weariness and resignation. The first one is about 30 years old. “What is this old whore looking for around here?” – one of the three soldiers laughs. “Bread, sir” – asks the woman. [...] “A kick in the ass you get, not bread” – answers the soldier. Owner of the flashlight directs the light again on the faces and bodies of girls. [...] The youngest is maybe 15 years old [...] They open her coat and start groping her with their lustfull paws. “This one is ideal for bed” – he says.”.

Prostitution is not glamorous. I suppose that if a woman is forced into prostitution to eat that is ”consensual.” 

While there was no way for a young German Christian man to avoid the war, barring being imprisoned in a camp himself, they could avoid the rape involved in forced prostitution. I wonder how many of them did? The peer pressure would have been immense. 

Jews, Russians, and Eastern Europeans were a particular target. When the Russians took over Eastern Germany you can guess what happened. Estimates are that up to 2 million German women were raped by Russian soldiers. Even if it was only a fraction of this number, the number of rapes was huge.  What you reap, that you also sow. 

What is interesting is that looking at the advantages Germany had in the war they should have won. It has been suggested that God intervened on the side of the Allies. Maybe. But far more likely is that German ideology cost the Nazis the war. When the German troops arrived in the Ukraine, they were greeted as liberators from the communist Russians. If their ideology had allowed it, treating the “inferior” Ukrainians well, even as a subterfuge, would have made them allies. Instead they stole the Ukrainian’s women to use as sex slaves. This may have cost them the war as the war was lost on the Eastern Front. 

What goes around, comes around. Jesus was proven right when he said that “if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword.” Germany lived by the sword and the result was that they died by the sword. 

Why do we as American Christians think that this is not true for the US as well? Since America lives by the sword, if Jesus is correct, America will die by the sword. God does not have to intervene, the natural consequences of war will inevitably lead to America dying by the sword. Has America “lived by the sword”? I suggest you click on the keyword “War” on the right column of this blog for some examples of America relying on the sword. 

I will return to this series next week. Yes, you have guessed it, I will be talking about America.