Nazi Policy and Cultural Minorities Term Paper

It was this same concept which began to impose harsh discriminatory
tactics against homosexuals. In fact, in a most ironic twist referent to
Nazi sadism, the treatment of homosexuals was often documented to exceed in
its abuse but also in its sexual manipulation, this group. Specially
recipient of abuse in the concentration camps, homosexuals were guilty of a
crime against Germany in their simple state of being, even as this
discrimination was not passed along to German SS guards and other Nazis
notoriously documented as having sodomized and sexually abused homosexual
inmates. In addition to their relegation to concentration and death camps,
homosexuals were subjected to the abuse of German's Nazified medical
community. To this end, "in 1935, a new law legalized the 'compulsory
sterilization (often in fact castration) of homosexuals.' A special
section of the Gestapo dealt with them.Along with epileptics,
schizophrenics and other 'degenerates', they were being eliminated."
(Laska, 1) The selected phraseology suggests that there is an inherent
intent to develop a 'moral hygiene' befitting of the Aryan race.
Therefore, in addition to those persecuted for these differences,
groups such as those in the sex profession would face the same ironic
mandate and exploitation. Prostitutes were subjected to harsh state
control, wherein all brothels were to be operated by public officials.
Independent streetwalking was considered a crime and in fact, this
situation allowed for the easy use of sex workers as sex slaves for guards,
soldiers and even prisoners. To this latter claim, "between 300 and 400
women were forced to become sex workers in brothels in ten concentration
camps, including Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen."
(Speigel, 1) The contradiction between the state restriction and the state
employment of prostitution speaks to the litany of internal ironies which
are apparent in Nazi purification.
Ultimately, in each of these capacities, we can see that the racial
and bloodline-based claims precipitating Nazi purification were in many
ways little more than a device by which to exact power over various
populations. Indeed, fascism would be very much inclined by the pursuit of
unchecked authority over individual actions and collective behavioral
tendencies. That this notion would be employed to the end of literally
eliminating all those on the fringe of German, and ultimately European
society, demands greater philosophical speculation. However, the approach
taken demonstrates a clear and multi-stratified front by which the Nazis
hoped to eventually produce a culture forced into a cruel and unnatural
homogenization.

Works Cited

Laska, V. (1983). Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust.
Greenwood Press.

Speigel Online. (2007). New exhibition documents forced prostitution in
concentration camps. Speigel.de.

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