A German Woman who fell in love with a Polish POV being publicly humiliated by being put into a medieval pillory, 19. September 1940

A German Woman who fell in love with a Polish POV being publicly humiliated by being put into a medieval pillory, 19. September 1940

Born in 1900, Dora von Nessen, was a rather shy child and had bad grades in school, thus leading to the believe she was mentally challenged, thus being sterilised. On September 19, 1940, she was displayed in the Oschatz pillory as a "dishonored woman". She was received by the Oschatzers with loud yells of disgust. This martyrdom lasted four hours. The young woman from Fuchshain had fallen in love with a Polish prisoner of war, thus committing a crime of Racial Shame. She survived the war and regime, living to be 91, dying in 2003

“Dora von Nessen (nee Klöthe) found learning difficult, she got stuck twice. Her school director in Fuchshain attested to the girl: "She always seemed to me to be mentally very weak, I don't want to say that she was uneducable." This school report had devastating consequences for the girl. On April 17, 1936, she was forcibly sterilized in the Wurzen hospital on the basis of the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Disease in Children". But the young woman didn't give up and took a job at the Calbitz-Kötitz manor. Here she and her husband Walter von Nessen, to whom she had been married since November 28, 1937, And then the Nazi regime once again intervened in the life of Dora von Nessen. Her husband was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939. At the same time, the first Polish prisoners of war, who also had to work in the Calbitz manor, arrived in Germany. And Dora von Nessen hooked up with one of these prisoners of war. She was reported by the Calbitz local group leader because contact with prisoners of war was forbidden. As punishment, she was put on display in the Oschatz pillory on September 19, 1940. Dora von Nessen was spared a prison sentence that other women had to endure in similar cases. After divorcing her husband, she returned to Fuchshain, worked in a galvanizing plant and lived with her family. Dora Nessen died in 2003 at the age of 91.”

She actually suffered from dyslexia and was forcibly sterilised as a young woman. Later she found a partner but when she fell in love with a polish POW she was told upon by neighbours and humiliated and sentenced for „Rassenschande“.

Nazis used quite a few different methods to forcibly sterilize people and experimented to find more. Hysterectomy is the most common. Removing the fallopian tubes was second. They used little to no anesthesia for the forced surgery and many had long term health issues from it. They also experimented on concentration camp victims to find more "effective" ways with radiation, injections, etc.

Ultimately, nazis forcibly sterilized around 400,000 Germans and killed an additional 300,000 disabled Germans.