Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
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What Are the Abusers of the Holocaust?
The United Nations regards all children under the age of 18 as children for the purpose of a sexual assessment or sexual behavior. It was believed that they could only have survived if they had collaborated with the Germans or with the Nazis, engaged in sexual activity and therefore they were able to be condemned. And that image stayed within for many, many decades after the war ended. But all of these, as far as I was concerned, were included as sexual behavior. Abuses come from everywhere, as they do in life today as well but they were Germans. They were people in any of the countries that children were found in. The occupying armies that came in that again raped women and children as they did
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