That is just now coming to light, 70+ years later…
In a new paper published in Social Science & Medicine, lead author Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine suggests the sudden cessation of menstruation among Jewish women at concentration camps was too uniform to be effected only by trauma and malnutrition—a set of explanations readily accepted by the late 1940s and rarely investigated further.
Full article, HERE, from the Medical Press.
It would be interesting to read the actual paper and see how much detail they were able to tease out.
Frankly, this is genocide, plain and simple.
The things that have been done by ‘scientists’ in many places in the interest of ‘science’ are abhorrent. How someone to knowingly/willingly do this, or the other things we’ve heard about over the years, like the Tuskegee Study among others, where no consent was given by the ‘participants’ is just flat insane and just blows my mind.
h/t Stretch
The US government has been experimenting on its citizens for a long time, from infected blankets given to native Americans to Tuskegee syphlis, to LSD given to military. All without consent. The Covid virus that was released may be another example of worldwide experimentation that many national leaders were involved in. No one has or will be held responsible for any violation of international laws prohibiting the creation or experimentation of bio-weapons which this virus is. We live in a fallen world controlled by people with little compassion for their fellow man and many with no concience of right and wrong.
I’m not so sure I can agree with her hypothesis. Namely because the same thing happened at the Bataan Death March to the women who were a part of that. Those women stopped menstruating and didn’t start up again until they were out of the Japanese prison camps.
Big cats are notoriously hard to breed, some breeds used to be considered impossible to breed in captivity (until some folks I knew, personally, figured it out). So we all spent a lot of time studying environmental factors and their impacts on females (both human and feline because there are a lot more similarities than you might think).
One conclusion we all pretty much arrived at is the the females of a LOT of species will not menstruate if they’re in an environment that is not conducive to raising children. r/K evolutionary theory backs this observation rather solidly, which was why I found it so interesting, as it was something we exotic cat breeders hit on in the 80’s.
So while it’s all nice to hate on the Nazi’s and all of that, I don’t honestly believe they did what she’s claiming. I don’t think they cared. I think it’s been shown, rather conclusively, that human women will not menstruate, just as many big cat and other exotic cats (and even a fair number of ‘K’ type predators) will not go into heat, if the circumstances they’re in are not only bad for rearing young, but just going into season isn’t safe. It’s an evolutionary hold-over that is still necessary to the survival of the species.
This is just silly. Here’s Peggy’s PhD in sexology dissertation title: “The impact of gender-role identity, conformity and choice on women’s self-esteem, lifestyle satisfaction and conflict.”
Quote: “The DSM criteria for diagnosis of unusual sexual interests as pathological rests on a series of unproven and more importantly, untested assumptions.”
She has also criticized the concepts premenstrual dysphoric disorder and dyspareunia as medicalizing women’s bodies.
Her other publications include: “Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures”. Her clinical work focuses on eroticism and transformation.
Aside #1 – Which was it? Were the Germans murdering the Jews in job lots, or were they carefully feeding them birth control pills?
Aside #2: The rates of miscarriage and stillbirth now, due to the vaxx, are higher than that of women in concentration camps.
The think John is right. A combination of stress and malnutrition can certainly foul up the menstrual cycle. And it sounds like the chemicals supposedly being made up were to boost fertility. Perhaps the Germans were pushing them on ladies of “appropriate” bloodlines to produce more children? That seems likely given some other things I’ve heard.
I meant to reference John Van Stry’s comments. Sorry. I didn’t realize there were two Johns.
IF… they were doing what she claims, why were there any live births at all?
(And don’t we know what happened to those babies anyway?)
All- Thanks for the comments, and definitely some ‘other’ potential causes… sigh