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Joy Division: 'Everyone calls us Nazis' – a classic interview from the vaults. Mick Middles. To mark the recent 35th anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis, here’s a classic interview with...
In World War II, Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps (Lagerbordell or Freudenabteilungen "Joy Divisions") to increase productivity among inmates, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, "prisoner functionaries" and the criminal element, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too ...
House of Dolls is a 1953 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633. The novella describes "Joy Divisions", which were groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during World War II who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers.
Joy Division named themselves after a concentration camp term and used a Hitler Youth drawing on an EP cover. A Michigan musician dubbed himself Elvis Hitler. Punk-adjacent Nick Lowe sang “...
In the introduction to “So This Is Permanence,” a collection of the writings of the late singer Ian Curtis, the book’s editor, Jon Savage asserts that Joy Division did not exploit the Nazi era, as so many of its punk peers did. Rather, its members seemed profoundly and genuinely moved by the Holocaust.
To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
April 9, 2019. The approach to Joy Division is forbidding. This band comes sealed in a myth of monumental severity, outside rock and roll to some degree, its achievement arrested at the point...
