The women and children were separated and forced to work digging holes or other jobs the officers had for them. But if they were to be gassed, they would be without clothing and locked in gas chambers in a mass. Later to be dumped in large ditches or holes.
The Germans and their collaborators spared neither women nor children—Jewish or non-Jewish—in conducting mass murder operations. Nazi ideology promoted the complete annihilation of all Jews, regardless of age or gender. SS and police officials carried out that policy under the codename “Final Solution.” German SS and police officials shot both women and men in mass shooting operations at hundreds of locations on occupied Soviet territory. During deportation operations, pregnant women and mothers of small children were consistently labeled “incapable of work.” They were sent to killing centers, where camp officials often included them in the first groups to be sent to the gas chambers.Non-Jewish women were vulnerable as well. The Nazis committed mass murder of Romani (Gypsy) women at Auschwitz concentration camp, murdered females with disabilities in the T-4 and other euthanasia operations, and slaughtered women along with men as so-called partisans in many Soviet villages in 1943-1944.n ghettos and concentration camps, German authorities deployed women in forced labor under conditions that often led to their deaths. German physicians and medical researchers used Jewish and Roma (Gypsy) women as subjects for sterilization experiments and other unethical human experimentation. In both camps and ghettos, women were particularly vulnerable to beatings and rap e. Preg nant Jewish women often tried to conceal their preg nancies or were forced to submit to a bor tion s
Following the Pullman strike, efforts by employers to obtain anti-union court orders were generally successful because there were no legal protections for unions.
