joy division
Meanings
noun
- A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves.
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Etymology
Calque of German Freudenabteilung. Popularized in the novella House of Dolls (1955), now considered largely fictional by many historians, although brothels did exist in some Nazi concentrations camps.
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