Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
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The Holocaust and Child Sexual Abuse in Concentration Camps
There was one person who is fairly well known and he wrote under the pseudonym of Katzetnik, which means basically a concentration camp inmate. These were children of young boys around the age of 13, 14, 15, 16 who were used as sexual slaves and also as domestic slaves. So, they had to keep the boots cleaned, the perpetrators boots cleaned and his meals prepared for him and his room tidy in these camps. Now, the interesting, homosexuality was of course condemned by the Nazi regime and punished severely but these carpos or SS were allowed to get away with this basically homosexual abuse of children without any penalty occurring to them either. It was regarded as acceptable, that's what you did
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