Nazi rape dogs
They were very huge dogs. We were afraid of those dogs more than the Germans. Because they were trained to make, you know, to make sex with girls.
All the witnesses were Jews.
“One, by One Facing the Holocaust” by Judith Miller
Barbie kept two German Shepherd dogs. One was trained to lunge and bite. The other was trained to mount naked women who had first been ordered on their hands and knees, a humiliation that could cut deeper than the whip, than having one’s fingernails pulled out, or one’s nipples burned with cigarettes.
Testimony of Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Rachel Hanan [1:26:20]
Besides that, you know, there were other punishments they could do to you. There were specially there were, you know, those dogs. There were those dogs in the camp.
They were very huge dogs. We were afraid of those dogs more than the Germans. Because they were trained to make, you know, to make sex with girls. So if they wanted to punish you, they would take these horrible big dogs and enforce you there to make, whatever. In any case, once it happened, it was a French lady, and she had a beautiful daughter of 16, she was really beautiful. And then, you know, they forced the girl - I don’t know what she has done wrong - to do that with the dog. The mother was watching.
The girl died because the dog was vicious and bad and big and whatever. She died on the spot. And the mother, she couldn’t stand it anymore. She went and hanged herself to the barbed wire, you know, electric, and she died as well.
Testimony of Bronislawa Limanowska (December 1945)
Once while we were laboring in the field, an S.S. man approached one of the girls and dragged her to the nearby forest. She didn’t come back again. They forced her to have sexual relations with a dog. The girl couldn’t stand it, she begged afterwards that they kill her. We heard her screams. The male and female S.S. staff guffawed sadistically about what went on in the forest and added,
“The dog found itself an excellent pleasure-object” (Der Hund fand zich ein ausgezeichnetes Lustobjekt) We trembled at the thought: who would be the next in line?
Scenes like this happened over and over. We began to fear going out to work lest we too would be put to that terrible test. We decided among us, that if another instance of that sort would occur, then our entire Kommando would revolt.
We wouldn’t allow them to use the girls for these brutal acts; better we should die than live a moment like that.
After the third incident of rape, when they just started dragging the girl away, we began a terrible screaming. We were some twenty girls. Immediately the SS staff who were with us in the field came and hauled us off to punishment in the “punishment cell.” This was a cellar divided into small cells. At the center of each was a crate to use for our bodily wastes. Four girls were shoved into each cell. The space wasn’t sufficient for us to sit down, so we had to remain standing day and night. Once a day we were given food. They kept us like this for four days and four nights. But we had some consolation: that we didn’t allow such acts to happen with us.
“Five Chimneys” by Olga Lengyel
I shall never forget the agony of one mother who told me that she was forced to undress her daughter and to look on while the girl was violated by dogs whom the Nazis had specially trained for this sport. That happened to other young girls. They were compelled to labor in the quarries for twelve or fourteen hours a day. When they dropped from exhaustion their guards’ favorite form of amusement was to urge the dogs to attack them.