Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager

Author:Sarah Prager
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Flossenbürg

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Josef spent the next five years at Flossenbürg. What he witnessed there is almost unbelievable: Prisoners’ bodies hanging as “decorations” from a Christmas tree. Naked men whipped to death while a commander masturbated at the sight of it. Forced trips to a brothel full of imprisoned Jewish and Romany girls—one of the Nazis’ attempts to cure homosexuality. At one point the camp received so many shipments of new prisoners marked for extermination that the amount of blood flowing out of the firing squad’s drains turned the local pond completely red.

Here, too, Josef managed to find someone to look out for him in exchange for sex. An SS sergeant approached Josef on his first day in the camp, simply asking, “You want to come with me?” Josef said yes right away, knowing exactly what he meant. The sergeant protected Josef from beatings and got him extra food and safer work details. In a world where hard labor could be as deadly as the gas chambers, that last “perk” may have been the biggest.

During his time at Flossenbürg, the handsome Josef had multiple kapos fight over him. A Hungarian Romany kapo even paid off his rivals to have Josef all to himself. Josef later wrote that he came to care for some of these men—almost—because they saved him from torture. His life in the camp was still brutally hard, dangerous, and miserable, but Josef knew others had it far worse.

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