Churchill
said to the Germans in January, 1945, "We Allies are no monsters. This,
at least, I can say, on behalf of the United Nations, to Germany ...
Peace, though based on unconditional surrender, will bring to Germany
and Japan immense and immediate alleviation of suffering and agony."
Austin Joseph App says that those Allies who were "no monsters"
literally raped more European women than had ever before been raped in
the history of the world.
A Glaube und Schönheit ( A Nazi outfit for girls) girl in "happier" days. One shudders to think what the Allied soldiers did to her.
German
women were raped by members of the Russian, Polish, French and American
forces during and at the end of World War II. During their flight to
the West and the period of expulsions, German girls and women were also
raped by Czechs, Serbians and Slovenians. Before that German soldiers
and members of the SS troops had been the rapists.
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| A defeated nation. No men to protect them. These German women suffered mass rape when Germany lost in 1945. These brave women try to build a future amongst the ruins of Berlin in 1945. |
At the end of World War
II, Red Army soldiers are estimated to have raped around 2,000,000
German women and girls. Norman Naimark writes in "The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949."
that although the exact number of women and girls who were raped by
members of the Red Army in the months preceding and years following the
capitulation will never be known, their numbers are likely in the
hundreds of thousands, quite possibly as high as the 2,000,000 victims
estimate made by Barbara Johr, in "Befreier und Befreite".