While to be absolutely honest it's something that would happen rarely and illegally. If an SS guard would be found in a sexual or romantic relationship with a Jewish captive after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, they were subject to severe penalties - court-martial, demotion, or even imprisonment in a concentration camp. So if something happened, it was to be totally hidden.
The most infamous real case involves Jewish inmate Helena Citronova and SS guard Franz Wunsch of Auschwitz.
The Slovakian Jew was made to sing for Wunsch on his birthday when he first fell in love with her in 1942. He would subsequently slip her additional food and clothing, and sneak small notes to her from time to time. He even went so far as to take some incredible risks, such as pulling Helena's sister from a transport for the gas chamber at Auschwitz, with a lie about requiring assistance on a work task. In an interview given years later, Helena said that, although she initially merely accepted his attention to preserve her life, "his protective instincts over our existence saved us".
Helena would even subsequently be compelled to testify on his behalf at his Austrian war crimes trial in 1972, although stating that Wunsch was ultimately also a monstrous man.
But beyond highly improbable cases like these 'romances' didn't actually happen, as the guards had total control of starving, terrified women begging for survival- trading survival for affection is not romantic love it is simply torture and slavery.
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