Holocaust

[jbor]

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>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (lorentzen-nicklaus)
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>     on the hierachy of prisoners see also eugen kogon's buchenwald-report
>    (it's also, imo, still one of the most profound studies on the
concentration
>    camp system): "der ss-staat. das system der deutschen konzentrationslager"
>    (22. edition, münchen 1989: heyne), where kogon reports that the queer
>    prisoners, wearing the pink triangle, were always at the hierachy's low
>    end. there's an impressive theatre play on queer concentration camp
>    prisoners i've seen once in the 80s.

In her memoir Horak writes that it was the gypsy prisoners who were put in
charge of the other (women) prisoners at Auschwitz and who acted as work
group leaders etc (there was a special German name for their role, but I
have sent the book back to the publisher now and can't recall it: Horak
comments on their extreme cruelty and violence towards herself and other
Jewish prisoners). She also mentions that prostitutes were interred at
Auschwitz, which is something I hadn't realised before.

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