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v. t. e. During the Partition of India, violence against women occurred extensively. [1] It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000 [2] and 100,000 [3] women were kidnapped and raped. [4] The rape of women by men during this period is well documented, [5] with women sometimes also being complicit in these attacks.
Aufseherin ( [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn], pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately 3,500 were women. [1] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2011, there were more than 228,650 reported incidents of crime against women, while in 2021, there were 428,278 reported incidents, an 87% increase. 65% of Indian men believe women should tolerate violence in order to keep the family together, and women sometimes deserve to be beaten.
Approximately 340 people from Lidice were murdered in the German reprisal (192 men, 60 women and 88 children). After the war ended, only 143 women and 17 children returned. Nazi propaganda openly and proudly announced the events at Lidice in direct contrast to the disinformation and secrecy involved with other crimes against civilian ...
Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany. [1] [2] Braunsteiner was known to prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp as ...
Sexual violence during the Holocaust. During World War II, some Jewish men and women in concentration camps faced sexual violence, due to wartime discrimination, antisemitism, and genocidal conditions among other reasons. [1] This discrimination happened both inside concentration camps run by Adolf Hitler ’s Nazi regime and also outside of ...
Conviction (s) Crimes against humanity. Trial. Stutthof trials. Criminal penalty. Death. Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the Stutthof SK-III camp for training as an Aufseherin, or overseer. She soon finished training and became a wardress.
The Kalavryta massacre ( Greek: Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων ), or the Holocaust of Kalavryta ( Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων ), was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, Axis-occupied Greece, by the 117th Jäger Division ( Wehrmacht) during World War II ...