Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies

[ismnotwasm]

A long article, horrific with detail. We dare not ever forget, dismiss or belittle this period in history. It's always close.

Dr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is not the kind people want to read. Yet, it’s one they should.

Titled, “Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule,” it is filled from cover to cover with horrifying accounts of countless Jewish and non-Jewish women being raped and brutalized, experimented upon, forced into prostitution or compelled to undergo sterilization or abortion against their will. Some German women successfully gave birth and had their babies taken away for adoption. Jewish women had theirs ripped away and murdered in front of them.


These actions were all part of the Nazi agenda to create a master race, but until Chalmers set about writing this book, no single work had thoroughly examined and comprehensively consolidated evidence of this aspect of the Holocaust.

More than a decade of non-stop and singularly focused research on the subject took an emotional toll on Chalmers, a 65-year-old expert on pregnancy and birth in difficult social, political, economic and religious settings. She had previously published on women giving birth under Apartheid in South Africa and having babies in the former Soviet Union under Communism. Others of her books reported on women with prior experience of female genital mutilation giving birth in Canada, and on women giving birth in highly medicalized settings.

“It was emotionally draining. My children suggested I write about something happier, but I kept going because these stories needed to be told. These women’s experiences needed to be brought to light and honored,” the author told The Times of Israel in an interview from her home in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/groundbreaking-study-exhumes-untold-nazi-brutalization-of-womens-bodies/

[bkkyosemite]

1. Castrate the Bastards.

[villager]

3. Nah. In America the heirs of Nazi enablers are appoiinted to the Presidency.

That was after bringing a lot of Nazi personnel into our intelligence agencies, after the war.

Our "priorities" appear to be different here.

[bunnies]

4. Someone haz a sad that you would think of doing such mean things to Nazis who tortured women. 1-6

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[ismnotwasm]

5. Holy shit.

That's bizarre.

[bunnies]

7. Right?

I was #5.

[Happyhippychick]

8. Proud to have been juror #2

[840high]

9. Thank you #2 and #5.

[Happyhippychick]

10. My pleasure!

[malthaussen]

13. My word, and it wasn't even about the primaries.

Is an emotional response not directed at anyone at DU (or anyone probably alive, at this point) so against the TOS as to be alert-worthy?

-- Mal

[jwirr]

17. Thank you all that voted to leave it. This world has been full

of the abuse of women and children by those who rule or conqueror especially in wartime including what is happening in the ME right now. But we rarely talk about it or for that matter even admit that it happens. It is way past time that someone shows what was really going on.

It has been hinted at in books, movies and other forms of literature but almost never are actual case histories supplied.

As you read you wonder just exactly how much of this is still happening today.

THIS is what sexist really means.

[heaven05]

2. +1000

trump is the reincarnation of this mentality in a national leader.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Exactly

It terrifies me.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. An alert ? eom

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Stories need to be told.

She is my hero for her work on this. Bodily autonomy is at the very least a topic too little talked about.

[ismnotwasm]

14. Yes indeed

Even the article is hard, in a emotional sense to read, the book as mentioned, worse.

[Hekate]

15. KnR for this courageous woman

[brer cat]

16. They must be remembered.

“The women who went through these experiences need to be honored by our having the courage to face their testimonies. We owe it to them. We don’t have the right to say it’s too difficult to read,” Chalmers said.

Thank you, ism.