Editing Prostitution in Germany (section)

=== {{Anchor|Nazi}}Nazi era (1933–1945) ===
During the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi era]], street based sex workers were seen as "asocial" and degenerate and were at times sent to [[concentration camp]]s, especially to the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp|Ravensbrück camp]].<ref>[http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2007/02/05/a0161 Auf einem vergessenen Lager im Lager], [[Die Tageszeitung|taz]], 5 February 2007. {{in lang|de}}</ref> The Nazis did not entirely disapprove of sex work though and instead installed a centralized system of city brothels, military brothels (''[[German military brothels in World War II|Wehrmachtsbordell]]e''), brothels for foreign forced laborers, and [[camp brothel|concentration camp brothels]].<ref name=sz1>{{cite web|title=Diese verfluchten Stunden am Abend|url=http://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Sender/?sendung=2800710480412395|website=programm.ARD.de|access-date=10 April 2018|language=de|date=26 August 2013}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], the German [[Wehrmacht]] established about 100 Wehrmacht brothels in the occupied territories, including France, Poland, Italy, and Norway. [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]] described his impressions from [[Brest, France|Brest]]: "If a large ship had arrived, the hookers simply laid there between sailors." Military prostitution was regulated, "Only a permit from the military command brothel allowed you to visit. Always use a condom (rubber protection). For the German soldiers there was a disinfectant syringe in the [[urethra]]."<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-40749007.html |title= Fortlaufende Nummer |date= 31 October 1977 |journal= Spiegel Online |volume= 45 |access-date= 13 November 2017 |language= de }}</ref>

Between 1942 and 1945, camp brothels were installed in ten [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]], including [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]. [[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]] intended these as an incentive for cooperative and hard-working non-Jewish and non-Russian inmates, in order to increase the productivity of the work camps.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,459704,00.html New Exhibition Documents Forced Prostitution in Concentration Camps] ''Spiegel Online'', 15 January 2007</ref> Initially the brothels were staffed mostly with former sex worker inmates who volunteered, but women were also put under pressure to work there.<ref name=sz1/>
In the documentary film, ''Memory of the Camps'', a project supervised by the [[Minister of Information|British Ministry of Information]] and the [[United States Office of War Information|American Office of War Information]] during the summer of 1945, camera crews filmed women who stated that they were forced into sexual slavery for the use of guards and favored prisoners. The filmmakers stated that as the women died they were replaced by women from the concentration camp Ravensbrück.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/ Memory of the Camps], Frontline, PBS</ref>

None of the women who were forced to work in these concentration camp brothels ever received compensation, since the German compensation laws do not cover persons designated as "asocial" by the Nazis.<ref name=sz1/>

In a famous case of [[espionage]], the Nazi intelligence service [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] took over the luxurious [[Berlin]] brothel [[Salon Kitty]] and equipped it with listening devices and specially trained sex workers.{{cn|date=November 2020}} From 1939 to 1942 the brothel was used to spy on important visitors.{{cn|date=November 2020}}