In one of the windows is an aging woman with thickly colored straw-yellow hair, leaning on her elbow. This barrack houses women—the only women residents in this city of men. Here lives a whole contingent of the undoubtedly most abject prostitutes of all time: the whores of Auschwitz. This is a brothel. Nazi thoroughness once again, of course. The women are from the most varied ethnicities, and naturally they are here not for the pleasure of ordinary Jewish häftlinge but are at the disposal of SS soldiers, and perhaps even veteran slave drivers among those Aryans of dubious origin who’d won
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