Breaking a long-time taboo in the world of Nazi horrors, German history officials have unveiled an exhibition on the 'comfort women' exploited by male concentration-camp inmates.
Between 300 and 400 women were forced to provide sexual services to queues of slave labourers from the Nazi armaments factories.
'These brothels were provided as a 'performance incentive' so that the male prisoners would increase their output,' said Horst Seferens of the Brandenburg Monuments Foundation, which funded the exhibition at the Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp Memorial.
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Historians said the story had so embarrassed the women that the Nazis responsible were never prosecuted after the War. The camps were run by the SS, the Nazi Party's own paramilitary organisation.
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