He asked me whether I would agree to a small operation. I told him that I did not agree to it because I had undergone already two operations. It’s interesting that her art and yarn-bombing are considered gender-specific. The Times headline is “Graffiti’s Cozy, Feminine Side.” He told me that this was going to be a very small operation and that it will not harm me. I told him that I was a political prisoner and that the operation cannot be performed on political prisoners without their consent. He told me to lie down on the bed; I refused to so. He repeated it twice. Then he want out of the cell and I followed him. He went quickly downstairs and locked the door. Standing before the cell I noticed a cell on the opposite side of the Staircase, and I also noticed some men in operating gowns. There was also one German nurse ready to give an injection. Near the staircase stood a stretcher. That made it clear to me that I was going to be operated on again in the bunker. The right floral arrangement at your baby shower can make all the difference! I decided to defend myself to the last moment. In a moment Trommel came with two SS men. One of these SS men told me to enter the cell. I refused to do it, so he forced me into the cell and threw me on the bed. But what about the battered housewives?

The children were told that they had to be vaccinated against typhoid fever before their return journey. Once you have a basic grasp on the system of privilege, the next step is one simple self-realization: you are privileged. Then they were injected with morphine. They were hanged from hooks on the wall, but the SS men found it difficult to kill the mutilated children. Chances are, your reading that has made you feel defensive. The first child to be strung up was so light – due to disease and malnutrition – that the rope wouldn’t strangle him. SS untersturmführer Frahm had to use all of his own weight to tighten the noose. Then he hanged the others, two at a time, from different hooks. ‘Just like pictures on the wall’, he would recall later. He added that none of the children had cried.

What you need to realize is that we all have privilege to some degree: white privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, etc.