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				First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025
			TITLE INFORMATION 
			
			Authors: William Ross Jones
			
 Title: ‘You are going to be my Bettmann’
 
 Subtitle: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps
 
 Journal: The Journal of Holocaust Research
 
 Volume: 38
 
 Issue: 3-4: Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust (Edited by Dorota Glowacka, Regina Mühlhäuser and Michal Aharony)
 
 Year: July-September 2024 (Published online: August 8, 2024)
 
 Pages: 253-272
 
 pISSN: 2578-5648 - 
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			eISSN: 2578-5656 - 
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 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Modern History: 
					20th Century | 
				European History: 
					German History | 
				Types: 
					Sexual Assault / 
						Child Sexual Abuse, 
						Sexual Violence during the Holocaust
 
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			Taylor & Francis Online (Restricted Access)
			 
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
			
			Author:
				William Ross Jones, 
					Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 
					University of Oxford - 
					Academia.edu, 
					ORCID
			
 Abstract: 
				»Since the late 2000s, Holocaust historians have made great strides in their investigations of sexual violence faced by women and girls. More recently, scholars have begun to address sexual violence faced by men and boys, primarily through works focusing on Pipels, boys forced into sexual relationships with older prisoners in return for certain privileges in the concentration camps. However, a holistic image of these sexual relationships and a thorough examination of agency and consent are still lacking. Using over forty memoirs and testimonies across several archives, this article explores how these relationships formed, highlighting the multiplicity of experiences. It shows how prisoners exploited the camps’ hierarchical power structures to abuse Jewish boys, capitalizing on the boys’ age, size, and positions as Jews within that hierarchy to enslave the easiest and most accessible victims. The article examines the complicated nature of consent and agency within these relationships, arguing that this violence more closely resembles sexual slavery rather than sexual barter, and it proposes to term them ‘exploitative sexual relationships.’ This terminology reflects the non-consensual, continuous nature of violence while respecting the agency that was often wielded by these boys, capturing a broader number of experiences than just those of boys in semi-official positions as Pipels. By clarifying understandings of these relationships, scholars can also begin to understand the wider vulnerability of Jewish males to sexual violence.« 
				(Source: The Journal of Holocaust Research)
 
 Contents:
 
			
			
			|  | Abstract (p. 253) |  
			|  | ‘So then … he raped me’: Experiences of exploitative sexual relationships (p. 257) |  
			|  | ‘I was just an innocent, religious child … ’: The vulnerabilities of Jewish children (p. 262) |  
			|  | Consent and agency: Approaching a terminology of abuse (p. 267) |  
			|  | Conclusion (p. 271) |  
			|  | Acknowledgements (p. 272) |  
			|  | Disclosure statement (p. 272) |  
			|  | Notes on contributor (p. 272) |  Wikipedia: 
				History of Europe: 
					History of Germany / 
						Nazi Germany | 
				Genocide: 
					The Holocaust / 
						Sexual violence during the Holocaust | 
				Internment: 
					Concentration camp / 
						Nazi concentration camps | 
				Sex and the law: 
					Child sexual abuse
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