Helga Schneider
Salani 2009
€ 14.00
In this book the words we scratch up to tear the skin, penetrating pain in the bowels and bones, pounding in the brain, it invades our heart and our whole body. Remember
is heartbreaking, but necessary. For this Herta Kiesel, an elderly German lady, told the young Swabian, successful writer, his history.
arrested in Berlin in 1943 because his girlfriend with a young half-jew, Herta is interned in Ravensbrück women's camp. With the promise of being freed from there to six months, the girl agrees to be transferred to the brothel in Buchenwald, the Sonderbau, "special building". Here
German SS prisoners and may, at the price of two marks, use the services of young women. At Buchenwald
also has its own laboratory, Dr. Carl Vaernet, best known for his "cure homosexuality" that the bodies of women and "triangles rose measures the "manhood" of the regime.
For years, Herta Kiesel has remained silent under the weight of misery and shame.
prostitution in Nazi Germany was considered, for reasons of racial hygiene, a serious crime punishable by imprisonment. This did not stop to Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of ten major brothels in concentration camps, where prisoners taken mainly from the Ravensbrück women's camp were forced into prostitution cooked. After 1945 the existence of these brothels was silenced. Germany has only recently woken up from this oblivion, facing what for decades had remained a taboo.
Helga Schneider born in Poland and has lived in Germany and Austria. Since 1963, resident in Italy. In addition to
The cabin of the sad pleasures published Brandenburg Gate, Berlin The fire, Let me go mother , Nightingale of Linke, I, a small guest Führer. With cinnamon Stars won the boys 2003 Elsa Morante.
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