Prostituierte und Zuhälter im „Dritten Reich“. Zwischen Alltag, Maßregelung und „Ausmerze“

Lecture and discussion with Mirjam Schnorr (Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt am Main) at the Stuttgart City Archive.

In contrast to the Weimar Republic, the Nazi state attempted to enforce strong state control of the prostitution milieu, prostitutes and pimps. The lecture provides an insight into everyday life in the milieu and examines the measures taken by the authorities in this area, which could also lead to the exploitation, deportation and murder of those affected. The role of these "forgotten" victims of National Socialism in the culture of remembrance will also be discussed.

Mirjam Schnorr has been a research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute since 2021. She is working on a research project on the history of the systematic plundering of the Jewish population in Frankfurt am Main under National Socialism and the consequences in the decades that followed. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a research assistant on a research project on the "Radical Decree" of 1972 at the Chair of Contemporary History in Heidelberg. Her doctoral thesis on the everyday experiences and persecution of prostitutes and pimps in the Nazi state will soon be published by Jan Thorbecke Verlag.