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Last update - 12:23 29/10/2007 New study examines sex crimes, rapes under Third Reich By Ruth Sinai Tags: World War II, courts, rape  A new study on Nazi gender ideology has found that when sentencing Nazi soldiers convicted of raping or sexually assaulting children and adolescents, the courts under the Third Reich were influenced primarily by what was considered normative behavior for men and women in society - not by the damage done to the victim. Monika Flaschka, of Kent State University in Ohio, will present her findings at the fourth international conference on women and the Holocaust, opening today at Beit Berl Academic College. Based on files from the military tribunal in the German city of Freiburg, Flaschka found that in cases of assault on girls whose conduct was considered normative, soldiers were given harsher sentences than in cases of assault on girls who had evinced sexual curiosity of any sort or behaved in a manner considered unusual. The latter were blamed for inviting the assault and viewed as unworthy of defense. But if the rape of a young boy was thought to be an insult to the father or family, then the soldier was punished severely. Advertisement The focus of the conference this time is "Childhood and Youth under the Third Reich - A Gender Perspective," and will include for the first time papers on the impact of the regime on non-Jews. The conference brings together the most prominent researchers from Israel and abroad in a relatively new field of Western historiography, which examines the Holocaust from a feminist perspective. "We provide a forum for dealing with the conduct of women and girls at the level of presentation, without judgment. That is the conference motto," Beit Berl's Dr. Batya Brutin says. The biennial conferences seek to expand and formalize the study, teaching and commemoration of the Holocaust from a gender perspective. They were begun in 2002 as a joint initiative of Beit Berl, Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Haim-Ihud, and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Nothing to fear Nancy Pelosi in Israel: I trust all presidential candidates in regard to Israel. Bonfire drama Mount Meron grave of famed rabbi at center of ownership row.   1.   That sounds kind of sick to me actually. 20:22  |  mich 29/10/07   2.   Quite a few questions 11:16  |  Sherlock Holmes 30/10/07   3.   seems like you can make anything a "feminist" thing 20:55  |  david 30/10/07   4.   What about the millions of rapes by the Russians? 04:02  |  Robert Crumpley 19/05/08

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