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TIL that Nazi Germany established a vast system of military brothels across occupied Europe. On the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht conducted mass kidnapping raids in Polish cities and seizing girls as young as 15 for sexual slavery in state-run brothels to serve German soldiers during WWII.

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