Selling Sexual Pleasure in 1930s Germany

Historians have long recognized that in the immediate post-war period, most Germans had fond memories of the years 1933 to 1939. It is easy to dismiss these happy memories as a romanticization of life in the eye of the storm — the fleeting calm in an era of devastation.1 But scholars have begun to take seriously the possibility that, at least for ‘racially valuable’ Germans, these years marked a period of considerable enjoyment and pleasure. In …