The Most Disturbing Sexual Practices of World War II | Sleepy History Story

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👉Support the next bedtime history with a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/boringhistorybites 🙏 Step into the blackout cities and occupied territories of World War II as we uncover a stark, human history of intimacy under pressure. This 195-minute chronicle follows the hidden systems and everyday negotiations that war set in motion: Japanese military comfort stations run by ledgers and stamps, German occupation brothels regulated like barracks, and maternity homes where ideology wrapped itself in warm blankets. We confront eugenics courts that turned diagnoses into surgeries, hunger that priced affection in coupons and cigarettes, and mass campaigns against venereal disease that taught prevention beside the parade ground. The story moves through apartments shattered by victory nights, fences where prisoners bartered safety, and coded glances in barracks policed by Paragraph 175. You will step into salons wired for honey traps, queues for war-bride ships, and chapels where sermons met supply kits. From segregated dance floors and fraternization bans to the clinic rooms of coercive experiments, propaganda that called purity a duty, and underground queer networks that built their own safety, this film traces how power touched bodies in wartime and how survivors sought justice, memory, and quiet repair long after the bands stopped playing. Join us as we explore: 0:00 Introduction: Blackout Curtain, Ground Rules 8:30 Comfort Stations Exposed (coercion, ledgers, inspections) 18:20 Occupation Brothels and Bureaucracy (passes, quotas, medical checks) 28:40 Lebensborn and Ideology (maternity homes, adoption files, origins) 39:30 Eugenics and Sterilization Courts (tribunals, diagnoses, consent erased) 50:00 Ration Cards and Survival Sex (hunger math, gifts, gray markets) 1:00:10 Venereal Disease Campaigns and Penicillin (kits, clinics, films, logistics) 1:10:00 Frontline Rape and Silence (mass assaults, reporting, blanks in ledgers) 1:20:45 POWs and Coercion (hierarchy, barter, favors framed as rescue) 1:31:00 Same-Sex Desire Under Fire (Paragraph 175, codes, fragile havens) 1:41:15 Spies and Honey Traps (Salon Kitty, codebooks, staged intimacy) 1:51:00 Soldiers’ Marriages and War Brides (licenses, trains, ships and reunions) 2:01:10 Condoms, Conscience, and Chaplains (morals, medicine, maintenance) 2:11:00 Race, Segregation, and Desire (MPs, dance halls, local pushback) 2:21:20 Occupation Romances and Fraternization (bans, rumors, small rebellions) 2:31:10 Medical Experiments’ Dark Corners (Block 10, X-ray rooms, records) 2:41:00 Propaganda of Purity (posters, radio voices, clinic hours in small print) 2:50:30 Underground Communities (cellar bars, slang, mutual aid) 3:00:00 Clergy, Scandal, and Sanctuary (safe beds, letters, accountability) 3:10:10 Trials and Testimonies (courtrooms, translators, the charge that lagged)