probably also explains the fact that the sexual urge was generally absent.
Apart from the initial effects of shock, this appears to be the only explanation of a phenomenon
which a psychologist was bound to observe in those all-male camps:
that, as opposed to all other strictly male establishments—such as army barracks—there was little sexual perversion.
Even in his dreams the prisoner did not seem to concern himself with sex,
although his frustrated emotions and his finer, higher feelings did find definite expression in them.
With the majority of the prisoners, the primitive life and the effort of having to concentrate on just saving one’s skin
led to a total disregard of anything not serving that purpose, and explained the prisoners’ complete lack of sentiment.
This was brought home to me on my transfer from Auschwitz to a camp affiliated with Dachau.
The train which carried us —about 2,000 prisoners—passed through Vienna.
At about midnight we passed one of the Viennese railway stations.
The track was going to lead us past the street where I was born,
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