Between 1942 and 1945,
Auschwitz and nine other
Nazi concentration camps contained
camp brothels (, or "Joy Divisions"), mainly used to reward cooperative non-Jewish inmates. In the documentary film
Memory of the Camps, a project supervised by the
British Ministry of Information and the
American Office of War Information during the summer of 1945, camera crews filmed women who had been forced into
sexual slavery, reporting that "
Dachau had its own brothel for the use of guards and favored prisoners." The filmmakers stated that as the women died they were replaced by fresh contingents from the concentration camp at
Ravensbrück. The novel tells the story of a
Jewish woman named Daniella who is "forced to become a
Sex Slave for German soldiers ... in Block 24 of Auschwitz-Stammlager." However, while Block 24 really did house a brothel, in reality "it was a brothel for prisoners. Members of the
Wehrmacht and
SS were not allowed to visit it. The forced prostitutes were mostly
German or
Polish—none of them were Jewish, neither was any of them called Daniella, as records of the Auschwitz administration show. A military brothel for German soldiers and SS guards also existed, but it was located outside of the camp, and all women there were German civilian prostitutes." While there certainly were reports by survivors of male German guards sexually abusing female Jewish inmates, "no archival evidence exists that points to the systematic rape of Jewish women in concentration camps or of their enslavement in Nazi brothels." ==Literature and scholarly references==