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Related information:
The Japanese tampon named for Anne Frank, famous teenage diarist who died in a German concentration camp |
German washable menstrual pads and belt, with case (about 1935-40) |
The influence of the World War II on German products:
Ad for Camelia menstrual pads (1940/41) & underpants made from American sugar sacks (1945/46) |
Camelia disposable menstrual napkin: terrific cardboard ad from a former drugstore in Saxony, Germany, 1936-37 |
The pursuit of the poison in menstruation |
Patent medicine at this museum.
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

"Fright Bleeding" (Schreckblutung)
Nazi experiments on condemned menstruating women, 1940s
From "Die unpäßliche Frau: Sozialgeschichte der Menstruation und Hygiene 1860-1985"
by Sabine Hering and Gudrun Maierhof (Pfaffenweiler, 1991)

history, Germany, women, medical, experiment, menstruation, prisoner,
fright, Shreck


Below, the German text from Die unpäßliche Frau (translated here on the first page.)

Related information:
The Japanese tampon named for Anne Frank, famous Jewish teenage diarist who died in a German concentration camp |
German washable menstrual pads and belt, with case (about 1935-40) |
The influence of the World War II on German products:
Ad for Camelia menstrual pads (1940/41) & underpants made from American sugar sacks (1945/46) |
Camelia disposable menstrual napkin: terrific cardboard ad from a former drugstore in Saxony, Germany, 1936-37 |
The pursuit of the poison in menstruation |

Below: From pages 105-106 of Die unpäßliche Frau. I added the black bars.
The footnotes are on the first page.

End | The Japanese tampon named for Anne Frank, famous teenage diarist who died in a German concentration camp|
German washable menstrual pads and belt, with case (about 1935-40)|
The influence of the World War II on German products:
Ad for Camelia menstrual pads (1940/41) & underpants made from American sugar sacks (1945/46)|
Camelia disposable menstrual napkin: terrific cardboard ad from a former drugstore in Saxony, Germany, 1936-37|
The pursuit of the poison in menstruation|

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