Posted on 04/30/2005 12:07:01 PM PDT by Sockdologer
A few weeks ago, I either read an article or heard on a talk show something about jewish women, who, after having been raped by nazis, refused abortions and carried their children to term. Does anyone know anything about this or can anyone give me a source for this information?
Sorry for the vanity.
-Sock
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
Section 2
Sexual relations outside marriage between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are forbidden.
... deprive them of food cards, transfer their working members to worse jobs, deprive them of medical assistance, of firewood. If that doesn't work, then the woman must be called in and given an ultimatum -either an abortion or the committee will have to inform the security police. It was proposed that all physicians and midwives be forbidden to assist during childbirth.
In this text, kinds of intimidation as strong as those used by the SS are employed by the Judenrat to force these abortions, yet the sense of this is somehow missing in the narration. link
Sounds remarkably like today's China and her one-child policy.
I never heard of this, but I remember reading in the eighties about one Jewish woman doctor in a concentration camp who performed abortions on women prisoners because they would be put to death when it was discovered they were pregnant, or become the subjects of experiments first.
After the war, when she was an obstetrician delivering babies she would say to God, "God, you owe me a living child here." The story broke my heart. The only abortionist I ever cried for.
Mrs VS
I've read a story recently (I don't remember where) about a German "program" to produce "good Aryan" stock by interbreeding with Norwegian women during WWII occupation, and the unhappy fate of the resultant children, whose paternity often was common knowledge and who tended to become shunned and disrespected by Norwegian society.
A Google search might produce relevant info.
I think her story was made into a movie.
American actress starred in it, as I recall.
The fact that the story mentions what happened if women
didn't have abortions may mean some of them did. But
I can't find anything on it other than your source.
Don't know much of historic significance, but it seems to me this could be a form of revenge. The children of Jewish mothers are Jewish themselves (by Jewish law and/or tradition). Therefore, raising the bastard children of their tormentors as Jews might have a certain satisfaction. It also might make them reluctant to abort a child that will be a Jew.
That's a very interesting idea. How often do you think women in general raise children out of vengeance?
"Nazis didn't make a practice of raping Jewish women. Physical relations between an 'Aryan' and a Jew were criminal offenses. While isolated incidents likely occurred, any 'reports' would at best be anecdotal."
It might not have been official practice, but it certainly did happen in the ghettos as well as the camps. We can't keep prison guards from having relations with female prisoners today when it is a punishable offense. Sixty years ago in those circumstances there was no one to answer to for it.
Thank you.
Rented it within the last year.
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