genital mutiliation/torture in Nazi Germany

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I have just finished reading An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berling (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) by Gad Beck.

I ran across the following passage, which may interest some forum users:

But what had happened to Paul Dreyer and Elly Peipe?

The Gestapo had gotten our address from them. Dreyer was beaten up badly during the interrogation. Within a weak he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for "aiding and abetting Jews" and for "treason".

He tried to improve his situation during the questioning by claiming he didn't know we were Jews. Then why did he help us at all? "Because they were such nice, pretty boys." The poor idiot exposed himself as gay, in the hopes that that might help him. Instead it brought him additional battering.

I saw him again a few months after the liberation . . . He looked absolutely terrible and told me what had happened to him in prison. They had set two specially trained dogs on him -- specialists in testicles and ears. He lost those body parts entirely; there wasn't the slightest trace of outer ear to be seen, and he was virtually deaf. As concerns the other body part, he said all that was left was a hole for peeing.

It's a mystery to me how he survived at all. . . . He . . . lived to a ripe old age, but evidently he had become a bit odd. The last time I saw him was in the late 1970s in Berlin . . . . He told me -- he was around seventy to my fifty-five -- that he had by no means given up on sex; there was another spot that had a lot of sensation. . . .(pp 148-149)