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in a box in the house. next door to remedy. we've been evacuated from munich, perplex. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries, i the only trouble if i noticed like what had gone there because i couldn't sleep that's connected. and yes, people had common rates, the women on the screen were so horrendous by this law. so please the submission, naturally, it was a nation wide catastrophe. one that effected an entire generation whole for the comes. how about the the scottish desk? how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows like things like this thoughts as of the work conveyed

all the hor, it definitely is that we always said i was taken when we talked about it that way. right. as well, to do so, realty, you felt dirty game that i come in yet help in general. so you can see that and not enough have the meat of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violence, x and the guy talking, always good. tom is of interest for the soviet army, the americans, the french and the british love of india. drama vibe. i think that if we are focusing primarily on the violent august admitted by the red army docking to holton, i'm need some concepts and then what we mean stuck in a very simplistic explanatory model, actually on small special. the for the while i doing is i did right. there's an old account through the pass and

in war time. so i can leave it at the vic to shows the enemy soldiers or the front on protect your women. and it's a way of diesel entering, the men's military on easy the filters. i was searching for my identity for 40 years. thought it was crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live. the

in europe to the 2nd world war had just come to an end gym and she's lay in ruins. in 1945, the months between the end of fighting and the new beginning was sort of chaos, dispatch euphoria, guilt and had. but this was also a time that proved to be especially dangerous for women. the minus, the new taker said somebody, conservative estimate is set to work close to 900000 great victim all the rapes themselves, could be much higher because many victims were raped multiple times or to go for the body to support women were raped by allied soldiers in the 1st weeks and months after the surrender of nazi germany violated by those who came to europe as liberators. american, british and french troops and soldiers from the soviet red. tell me this highest

best. this means there's likely no german family or family that lived in germany at the time that wasn't effected in some way. i know why is it the front, the coffee either completely to their own assaults, or at least to the fear that it could happen to their own family members for this, this, i can then from in, on google, i can post to you. i'm printing the only when she was 80 years old student maximilian, a hikers mother in law, go speak of her childhood memories of soldiers and awful screens. in the spring of 1945 off to ad rates, the u. s. army occupied the bavarian town of land suit, 4 year old moscow, her mother and the female cousins, so shell to bring the seller to fowling home to saw. the women live together more or less without men. i'm just done keeping. and then in april 19, 45 and 50 shots people. but when the bombardments of loans who became too severe house, they fled to a house and fog off right. connected to the church the,

i'd still me to kind of don't swear when the americans arrived. they forced their way into the house. on the other day, there were several of them and they were heavily armed as how special they searching the house from top to bottom. and then in a cupboard and one of the bedrooms, they saw them locks uniform hanging on a hanger. i'm really and then they asked, where is this man home dong? just talked with, where is this man, where is the soldier on voice? so thought went on st. pete max and then they were more and more aggressive and true. the women into the bedroom, the shut off to make you 3, the once done comments in. so then so this in the bedroom, the us um yeah, i know that one of the soldiers through my grandmother steps onto the bed of spit

and tried to take her clothes off. yes, it's the mungo states signed and for decades in the family, no one ever spoke about the events that occurred at the end of april 1945 it was only her daughter and maximilian who upon learning of her grandmother's right decided to find out more about the time us troops and to this area, she began looking for witnesses to this history and especially in the villages. and was met with a world of silence. as of this yesterday faith, this sort of ours, i feel that i work wasn't a small rural area on the border between upper bavaria and lower bavaria. i think in the district of alternating wish to be very catholic community with a lot of social control. the backs in new incidents had occurred as yet it took

almost a year to find women and also men face. people were willing to tell me what happened there. mean that a team have done it? said it almost the story. i my home. yeah. so all, and we were so afraid of the soldiers through the russians coming future, we'd heard terrible things about them and hope the americans would arrive before the russians use this sort of the issue. it was a 1st and we were at the native oceans to the virgin mary. you could hear the sounds of the tags and vehicles in the church. suddenly the priest said that the enemy has forced its way into our village and is in the door and get to go home each week. no women and girls were to comport themselves with dignity, and the space of the enemy used to be cut off a fine they

came upstairs to our place. 2 young americans looked at single measuring sticks and of course they saw my mother and my sister. talk to me right away at the start of items annexed rate is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strict actions against that part of the affair, tolerating it, and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims exceed all spite 6. and because actual violence, i was in a certain sense that so intimate, that it can rupture, family structures the to them. but connection on the social cohesion of a society in the long term i'm supposed to get charged around. come, nanny, be honest, has written down the traumatic experiences. she associates with february of 1945 things to witness. the red armies rested advance into breasts. now the historical

capital of site easier now known as the polish city of lots less feeding. all assisted implementing is a big cities were destroyed, but not for as low as the where we had air written warnings, you got the magazine and we always said, that's why we're in for it now. the one that's and it was a disaster, the russian to spend a ring around personnel in circling the city breast slow was around it and it was a fortress, i'm sure that's the ones that fist on the city was supposed to serve as simple

walks and stops the russians from advancing. so the odor to event to 8, came fall to lights, the new need. the alice was just 14 years old. at the time the divine in california were uncle reinhold center, and he was my father's youngest brother. the say it was nothing regarding my mind, i can still see a sitting there in a circle like this. i sat here and my mother was next to me, a witness done on the mom's other side, set my brother vin feed, my youngest brother, and you instead of the stillman, i stormed in and we just sat like the dog is as far as the i don't know if he

screened or cried, we trembled sitting there. how does this come to? i know one soldier came in, the see looked around me saw me set and yanked me towards him. the look and mother cried out. the spice didn't know exactly how he threw me on the floor. in the drawer and stop it happened that it is done. i see it like the show in the spring. right. and what the planning land one another on on soc israel land and 10 mazda were among around 1400000 women who were raped 12 fleeing east prussia or site. easier, often, more than once nazi propaganda about the red menace meant fear of the soviet soldiers was especially great not to me and felt like one more afraid of this logic

peoples. indeed, because in the rid of this high r p of the time they were portrayed as monstrous months primitive, i couldn't have beast driven by physical urges as best jim katasha ms. wharton vaughan. so accordingly they triggered more fears of colors, idols, and his own to rush, calculated their opponents, eventual, or full revenge into that comes in his diary minister of propaganda, yoseph gathers quoted to hit nervous saying, not long after nazi germany's invasion of the soviet union in 1941 we have so much to answer for that we must win because otherwise our entire nation with us a tips head will be a right to k to along with old we hold the. so let's get to work the direction for present in the nazi leadership. the heads of the van law and even individual soldiers was certainly conscious of the german crime,

is committed in the eastern territories and just they ordered them knew about them, sold them, or even committed the michel, but unable to well that if a red army came to germany then god have mercy on us on it. when school started 1945, the russian army stood. 80 kilometer is outside the land and was preparing its attack on the gym and capital. close to 3000000 people was still living that among the women, panic was growing. many so killing themselves as the only way to evade the enemy. in april, the number of suicides in berlin reached record levels at close to 4000. the on the 8th of may, 1965. it lives no c gemini, surrendered. the last great best of the 2nd world war on european soil was now as

the vision it includes the lean, was one huge war trophy. the soldiers were given free reign to enjoy the victory in the house can keep the victims. if this flushed is victory with the women, it said that a few red army soldiers carried a leaflet with them, which said, crush the germanic women's, racial pride. take them as your rightful spoils, the civic and receive as well. revenge was certainly an important motivated on perhaps what most important whitening but other factors also came into play, especially the internal military culture. and i read amin, a band on vacations casualties. one cool collision for bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks on monday and to relieve this pressure, they've left their own troops. run wild kind of off list the

best to do what i mean. what is this true for the red army? as for the us army, was that troops had certain images of the more of the probity of german society for andrew and women of deduction funds that seem to justify not applying any moral standards in their dealings with them. and the government in the the is on says that the us army from the west seem to worried the german population less. in march of 1945, the americans cross the rhine and by 8 pull,

they'd already reached the rings you inclined. but to know if the village priest wrote him release, the americans coming, there's excitement, but no frights and excitement between frightened joy. but leaning more towards joyce, the a quarter of a year late to the troops would withdrawal the 9 months later conrad was born. right off to his bus, his mother pushed him in foster care when he was 8, his 1st assistant told him the reason why or help me out see it. that's all she told me in 1945, the americans were in eisenberg and your mother got involved with one of those americans didn't get us and he's your father to hospice to ensure that's how you

came to be. just for me at 1st that was actually more of a relief than a shot xt. i got it. i bought the car and truck as well. i mean, i know i like where i came from its full voice. bullshit. the shuttle holder. huh. i had red hair and gaps between my teeth started from an early age. i had a kind of inferiority complex. if i didn't belong, i didn't know where i was at, and i had no protection, no one to protect me. no one supported them. this isn't in my childhood. no one ever took me under their wing, need an on going to move. the comrade was a cheeky kid too soon became a thorn in the side of the east. german school system is 3rd grade report card states that he constantly interrupted lessons and was proud to be a farmer and his family was employed to take action before it's too late of him. for me, my father was my anchor and guy and i had

a secret that belonged only to me. there's one that gave me strength. and so i've, it was like i was on a kind of mission. the dust destinies, the screw you. i'm in america, your one day i'll leave here and join my father and america. i'm just it was a big of getting a hotmail. i got to them. i'm far from the us. soldiers went is widely fields and they were expected to abide by the military leadership strict code of conduct. germany was conquered enemy territory. and they were supposed to keep that distance from the gym and people training films which showed to prepare american soldiers the do a lot associated with german men, women, or children. every german is a potential source of trouble. therefore,

there must be no freedom ization with any of the german people. randomization means making friends with german people on line or friends can advise you in general, armies forbid fraction, ization i out of concern by informal contact is august. folders have with the domestic population, men, the contact will lead to a weakening. is that the army prefer oklahoma. com? that's the association with the on the i. the and vincy done as much as soon. so if they start to have personal contacts and for example, you have a beer to bar to give them the evenings to them, they could lose sight of the occupying powers goals of simply the us. so just advance didn't always go smoothly. the liberation of bavaria took several weeks. well, in some places, jem and surrendered without to fight just a few kilometers away. hitting this last contingents would continue to protect us

from resistance. that includes the it was still young people who would take up arms and try to fight the us soldiers less so dot. and so that came from a see to also it appears that the place is most resistant to being taken over. we're the ones most affected by sexualized war violence. have dish me dish, centralize that water game, deacons on, on that that gets most for most folks near flies, english clicks. there was a big prisoner of war camp there. and was with the us troops moving in could see how their comrades had been treated in germany. this in particular seems to have triggered a lot of anger and the you a soldier as by then that led to an especially large number of sexual assaults which were carried out systematically. apparently they made marks on houses,

it presumably inhabited by women, essentially declaring them to be afraid to clear this report about the troops arrival risking by the priest of the town. as most book states. on monday, the 1st news about rapes reached the rectory. it's not possible for this chronic that to provide any numbers here. several goals jumped out the 1st floor window onto the street and laid that in just the at the time rec, trees were among the few. gem and institutions still functioning, said that the very end, priests reports on the allies arrive, will remain an important source for historians and generalist slight maximilian, the height or the home here in buddhist us. here we have the report from the saint nicholas parish. in bod, right, and how, oh, sorry, i was on the one hand, it makes the blanket statements that a large number of women and girls with violates the 2 monks. but in parentheses,

the tier is being added with this to give them 200. that's what the 100 kind from this formulation. so priest makes it clear that he has no personal knowledge of the method, but it's just for laying what the towns focusing on home to be the room, the voice. and then comes the frequently confirmed information that's all off to the americans marched in there was relative peace, we stop with. but then the french troops where advancing ice can cut off and the wood was they would come missing terrible crimes and sickly. namely in moral terms, they committed terrible crimes against women and goals. so he is a rhodes college, moroccans use gun violates to force that way, unit 9. and this is, it was fairly typical to mention the skin color of the soldiers or fine to is doing the plundering. so talking about i can fund, and you call me in good the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made

a particularly strong impression pretty cool to perform the goals. troops for barbara street, they sold and rob did, chased after the women. and the young girls locked themselves in the attic, and the silver soldiers couldn't come in the fast differential me also kept tax of sexual violent secrets. but when challenges were pressed, the military court stole down particularly harsh sentences. defrances colonial troops. that's this most of the racism of societies back then, not just the german, but also the british, french and american one was if she is reflected in the numbers of convicted and sentenced and perpetrators in the system on foot. what it was clearly so that for instance, in the us army, the black culprits were charged more often with i'd also received much pressure sentences including the death penalty as possible. but since the to discover

differential occupied the territory near the french gym and pulled up here in southwest in germany, it was mainly the french, occupies most of us retaliation that's burned into people's collective memory. funds will happen often operate on the train and the 2nd was reputation with the german people on that apply only to prove that folks also see it. that could be reprisal included as revenge for the full year long term and occupation in front. and due to the facts, there were many sexual assaults. when the french marched into south west in germany, he could stay in the french occupations and children fathered by french. so just have to be registered by orders of the military governor. so it's on record that most of the rapes with notes, in fact, committed by colonial troops. the

close uh, item one in february 1946 was one of these frenchman's kids. she grew up with her grandmother in a village near concert. she knows nothing about the events surrounding her conception. only that her father was a french soldier. at the age of 10 articles i was suddenly sent to from because she was deemed to be a child of the french state of the moment, royce vick most from the moment i had to leave. i wasn't shocked as a deer was this tama the old for by was sent unprepared time for and country and was a foreign language by or live with nuns. that's laws, that was a dramatic change for me. is most the funds i had to learn french, but i was there for 3 years on became a french limits, hunters. i was a forced francophile hockey, the unique, fucked. while i was never asked what i wanted, excuse me,

and nothing was ever explained to me, to do some type pulling up to the point in time when i learned that there was an archive coma in clermont, in front of the french archive, i knew nothing at all on each rod on then i was outraged that i was an honest, familiar timeframe. each box for the console isn't. so the, as i said, i know it certainly existed and the french archives even exist to like the guns and all of the children fathered by french soldiers. so dot and good. so we're archived on the orders of general kennedy's unit. i cruise from this document on a wholesale also lent her father's name full bath. yet she's never been able to find him. many thousands of women assault as being right to the

friendship to patients by the summer of 1945, the consequences of that sexual violence had become old to clear. many women wanted to have an abortion, but to be granted when they needed to have previously reported the rate of to is this going to college is noted in the vast majority of cases. no report was made to be also a cheese out of shame. and to see a disgrace. consequently, in almost every case and incredibly time consuming investigation was necessary to differentiate in the wheelwright cases from the site to ones. the viper, male sexuality was basically viewed as unreliable unless the cost of divisions that when in doubt the rulings always went against the woman. it was always thought that the woman seduced the man that she didn't have her own sexual desires under controlled as he bought. the more that she wasn't meant to realistic and wanted something from the soldiers. that she then gave herself or sold herself to get it

cost on the hoses. mount the monica also contravene the moral codes at the time in spring 1945, near the gym and city of culture, she met the french soldier who would become, i know, who was his father mine and with the law i mother was a very reserved one. involved is what kind of did issue wasn't someone who not taken the initiative of mind and with that, so i think my mother had the opportunity to earn money from the french can to put in. but infantilism after monica unexpectedly became pregnant by the french soldier . she was known in her home village as the frenchman's darling. eventually, she was forced to leave the treat. after the war, women normally weren't permitted to have a relationship with a frenchman north northern america, in nor an englishman, nor

a russian deed for him and friends. the shape of the women's head well and chase and through the villages on restore. and there was no difference in germany inductions only on this the fall and the women weren't allowed to have lesions with the enemy of the stuff that didn't stop relationships from happening off to the 0. alice struck mocking gemini surrender. people wanted to forget about the past. german women rates by soldiers were often helped me to blame, so most didn't press charges. to great was the shame and the feelings of guilt towards that husband's and signed the lease as well. the mice and most of the women likely never spoke about it, not even with their husbands when they eventually returned. plus there was no one tap infrastructure that could have dealt with this. there was no legal framework whatsoever from the german police or the german court to take action against it. in this respect, there was no systematic registration system much fossil. it's estimated that

between the early summer and full of 1945, at least 110000 women and girls were raped in berlin, allowed many of them multiple times. that these figures around the estimates this is done using old patient records and registration phones, like those found to be all kinds of fun in school. but university files from the empress of goose to victoria house. children's hospital, for instance, showed up 5 percent of the children born between the end of 1945 on the summer of 1946 had russian fathers. in many of these cases, the only entry on the line for the father is russian. and in parentheses, the german word for right in the entire sylvia talked to patients and historians estimate that more than $500000.00 women would

rate during the fast paced while he is american soldiers. a thought to have committed over a 190000 sexual assaults. the figures are still on notice of the british allied troops. the allies divided gemini and by then into full occupations. at a time, the occupiers became deliberate is from then on love a says with allied soldiers. when the longer rad soon no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks of to the was and is subject comes with us when long its show for a long time. but even to these a day, people don't like to talk about crimes committed by the allies. but today, for 2 reasons, the 1st they're out presence a allies all and 2nd, because especially on the german side with all the crimes carried out in germany's

name during world war 2. it's hard to point a finger at the allies because very quickly you can reach on relative izing and roll assessing to them and deal of questioning. but to switch off the use of rationing and shortages. germans loans for stability. 1948 proved to be a decisive here. the americans have been preparing the currency reform in the west and zones. this effectively split germany into 2 economic divisions and kicks down to the economic miracle in the west and the political division followed just to get away to the republic of germany held its 1st parliamentary elections in 1949 on the election post. as the christian democrat, some c, d, u, used to stereotypical images of the enemy to stare up, fees of the red menace. c d. u candidate to conrad and now it became the 1st chance and the new republic. realized who wagner got to the occupation, states as engaged at ogden now tied his country site to the west. now at the latest,

it was also in west germany's political interests that the guilt for crimes committed by the allies was placed solely upon the soviets. harfers, especially during the war. so in this kind of cakes and in the stores in west germany, western europe and the well sex and the sexual violence committed by red army soldiers. peers was often scandalized. i'd as allegedly be, especially in civilized or brutal for time as with the student, the voices as or memories. yeah. those really impacted as well as their perpetrators. i went on heard. com, dr. me for the only in 1992 to the documentary. once again, take up the controversial topic of rates committed by allied troops and postal gemini. khan, heidi, i was one of the contemporary witnesses recounting the story of his desperate

search for his father. in the science onto the side to also known as liberal rates as take liberties direct to have cause on the talks to victims, perpetrators and children born of rank. what the phil makes clear for decades german society knowledge. he blamed these women and children for the fates deputy, for their overall by their deceased advisors by ensure the film was viewed as a milestone one when it came to confronting this history. and without a doubt, that was also because up to that point in time, there to hardly been any kind of reflection about it and what to about. and in my mother's case, my step father did everything. he could this impressive filter image i can define shocking examples. why was this such a taboo topic for so long as i live on the 1st we women want a custom to talking about their own interest inside. and i think that's the decisive factor marked by the disposal,

and no one made it easy for them because if they tried to talk about it to other speed, wind up being punished all over again. officially like a visa the many women instead of a conflict with their own relatives afterwards with much tougher to take them, the rape itself for his mother conrad young's very existence was proof of the so called shame. the 22 year old cl naji student was made to carry the blame for something over which he had no control. in 1968, the rebellious young man once again drove to compass to see his mazda and finally line his father's name. they'll have to inch for the sixty's. i mean, that kind of plan to bring this american into play. is it bought or so she asked me to come into the kitchen and sat down to vision. i was just about to start when the door was thrown open and her husband was standing in the kitchen doorway when your money shunted decoration to you and he started yelling. when i get out of here,

good. get out to your home that'll do you have no business here. no reason to be here. just index and leave our mother increase one last was on. what do you do? we have absolutely nothing to do with politics. leave the room, scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. so once a vote on coordinator, 4 years later, con, received a letter to him with a clear message. the it was written not by his mother, but by her husband, the sooner destroyed by look for the blame and yourself and not in others. we bear no responsibility whatsoever for you and strong, and that's the letter. this is deputy, the lifelong search for an unknown father for one's own identity for love and

acceptance. these things of also left on the who is the item was deep psychological scars. i'm gonna have to email dispatch to. you always have the sense that house which is missing as well, i'm tired and you always have the feeling that you don't belong anywhere. monday afternoon, but you don't belong to friends and you don't belong to germany. the phone cars wants to kill them just enough. the trip in 1948. i know who was his mother. i got married to a frenchman. he to the ever so i know it was a, as the child born into shape as i was playing with strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him. just before a storm, shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to stand me to reset the homes. i said why? i was always a good kid. so it was like an electrical shock went through me from top to bottom. it was that simple. 3200 children,

but one of right poor officially registered in west germany and west berlin. still the number of unreported cases was suddenly much higher in west germany. the politicians on society denied responsibility for these women and children. the women was recognized as victims of war and us had no rights to compensation. that's what is a slot from that was off the table right from the start because the state couldn't have afforded it and didn't want to be there. boy, and it would have put women equal worth, centrally civilian war victims on an equal footing with war disabled soldiers successfully at font in east gemini, rapes, conducted by red army soldiers were also to boot. i'll make time and time again comes at the present to the communist dose over at chase. in 1986, east durham and officials decided to deport him to the west. a day before the protestant

minister was forced to leave the country. he drove to compass one last time as wide on the i might and went off. so i wanted to visit my mother one last time i insignia for the sole purpose of having her telling me the name of the american homicide was a sing and she started to sob and cry something awful sure i have gone to trust. i've no idea what you want as to why you're telling me this. there is no american on the on and stuff at all. it wasn't as developed. our truck spot was up the black market trying to try to pair of shoes or fluid to come. then a truck drove in, filled with the russians, despondent, they jumped down and conducted a rate on the market for an engine. send me a host, then they drove me out to a field throwing me down on the ground. oh, i'm very sorry. and one of the men held the machine gun to my temple while the

other tore off my clothes downright to me or do something from life, give us, and obviously think about it is or done the other ones turn done with on give us the yes and i for within 20 minutes i became russian to tips us a dime. it's all coming from the year long dream that i was american when buster. so i mean, i called like a blog instead of the course of events in the month of february, the june 1945, the way i beat them at the time these assignments and from the perspective of an almost 15 year old and a fast since sitting here thinking manny, be honest, living in the age of $94.00. at the end of her life,

she made her peace with the sexual violence. she didn't do it at 40. she says she became a happy pass. thanks to the not the past. the by yeah, yes, and he was very loving it a very loving with any new i was afraid of mr. wright to cut it. yeah. yes. i also was afraid of the right guys or that mission, but he never pressured me. i said, and even when we were engaged, 5 sets. yeah, that's a really long time. yes. the the reset davis, my name, i have my husband martin and my mother to think for this that's the issue that i owe to my own surprise. everybody does, it can speak about it. i wait for you a gun, the

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