"TIL that the band Joy Division's name is a reference to the name of the Auschwitz camp brothels"
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/q9JHjZO11l
"Why Joy Division changed their name to New Order - Radio X"
https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/joy-division/why-did-joy-division-change-their-name/
"Among his most famous works was 1955's House of Dolls,[11] which described the Freudenabteilung "Joy Division", a Nazi system keeping Jewish women as sex slaves in concentration camps. He suggests that the subject of the book was his younger sister, who did not survive the Holocaust.
While De-Nur's books are still a part of the high-school curriculum, Na'ama Shik, a researcher at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel, has claimed that House of Dolls is a kind of pornographic fiction,[12] not least because sexual relations with Jews were strictly forbidden to all Aryan citizens of Nazi Germany.[13] In De-Nur's 1961 book Piepel, about Nazi sexual abuse of young boys, he suggests the subject of this book was his younger brother, who also died in a concentration camp.[14]
House of Dolls is at times pointed to as the inspiration behind the Nazi exploitation genre of serialized cheap paperbacks, known in Israel as Stalag fiction (סטאלגים). Their publisher later acknowledged the Eichmann trial as the motive behind the series.[citation needed] The British post-punk band Joy Division derived its name from this book, which was quoted in their song 'No Love Lost'."
"Yehiel De-Nur - Wikipedia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehiel_De-Nur
"In The House of Dolls he explains in painful-to-read detail the creation of a place where pretty young Jewish girls (14-18 years old) were cycled through to be repeatedly raped by German soldiers on their way to the Russian front. Ka-tzetnik calls this the Joy Division, and if that sounds familiar, yes – the British band got their name from this book. Repeatedly Raped 14 Year Old Jewish Girl just didn’t have the same ring as Joy Division. I remember when I was a teenager in love with this band. I was that fool at 500 yards unable to process the horror of what that name truly meant. Now I’m just sad that anything so awful could be used for a commercial endeavor."
~ Reviewer Brian
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
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