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perplex. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries, i was like, what had gone there because i couldn't sleep that's connected. and yes, people had common rates. the women you can see on the screen were so horrendous by this law. so i please the submission and actually it was a nationwide catastrophe. one that effected an entire generation will come about the the scottish desk. how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows 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. but as for the much fees yourself guilty, you felt dirty game that i come in yet helps our in general. so you can see that and not enough have the meat of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violence, extra indigo by talking always good tom. these are we have to ship a soviet army, the americans, the french and the british live in, via government via 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 control passing 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 to the crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live the in europe to the 2nd world war. i 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 are 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 of the surrender of nazi germany violated by those who came to europe as liberal rates as american british and french troops and soldiers from the soviet red. tell me this highest does. this means there is likely no german family or family that lived in germany at the time that wasn't effected

in some way and advise it up from 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 for me in on googling pepsi and print the only when she was 80 years old. did maximilian a hypo smell? the ma go speak of childhood memories of soldiers. an awful screens. in the spring of 1945 off to ad rates, the u. s. army occupied the bavarian town of lands suits 4 year old moscow. her mother and the female cousin so sheltering the seller, the fowling hum to southern women live together more or less without men done gig. and then in april 19, 45 and 50 shots to come back. when the bombardments of nuns 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 or in this one. the other day, there were several of them and they were heavily armed just how special on the search and the house from top to bottom. and then in a cupboard and one of the bedrooms, they saw them walks uniform, hanging on a hanger on you 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 cynthia 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, thoughts 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,

let's see 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 entered this area. she began looking for witnesses to this history and especially in the villages was matched with the will of silence. as of this yesterday faith, this sort of ours, i feel that i worked wasn't a small rural area on the border between the upper bavaria and lower bavaria. i think in the districts of altitude english 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 who were willing to tell me what happened there.

mean that a team have done it? said it almost the story. i my a be a long yeah. so, oh man, we weren't so afraid of the soldiers or the russians coming here. so we'd heard terrible things about them and hope the americans would arrive before the russian. we'll see who's the saw that yes, it was a 1st and we were at the made of oceans to the virgin mary, you could hear the sounds of attacks and vehicles in the church. suddenly the priest said so that the enemy has forced its way into our village and is in doors and get to go home to keep read. no women and girls which comport themselves with dignity and sweets of the enemy would be cut off of find 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 side of items and x ray is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strictly actions against that total of the, of their tolerating it. and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims exceed by 6 because the actual violent sizes in a certain sense that so intimate, that it can rupture, family structures the to them, that connection nines, the social cohesion of a society in the long term, i'm supposed to get charged around, come, now need be honest, has written down the traumatic experiences. she associates with february of 1945, but then she, with the red armies rested advance into breast. now, the historical capital of saint easier, now known as the polish city of lots less feet. it was

a shed implementing is a big cities were destroyed, but not for as low as you 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 funny and it was a disaster, was the russian spend a ring around personnel in circling the c 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 a bulwark and stumps 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 of the divine and cannot find the word 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? i know one soldier came in the sea, looked around me, saw me set and yanked me towards him. the look and mother cried out the spice. exactly. and how he threw me on the floor in the drawer and stop it happened that his son see it like this in the spring. right. and what that then? yeah. planning land one another on on soc israel's land, and 10 mazda were among around 1400000 women who were raped while fleeing east prussia or site. easier often, more than once nazi propaganda about the red menace meant. see here, if the soviet soldiers was especially great not to me and felt like one more afraid of this logic. people's indeed because in the rid of this higher key of the time

they were portrayed as monstrous months primitive, i think i've be driven by physical urges, especially gym katasha as well in advance of accordingly they triggered more fears of colors. agile fits on his own to rush, calculated their opponents eventually 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 walk the direction for breaking in the nazi leadership. the heads of the van most 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. but if the red army came to germany, then god have mercy on us all at once. cool. at the start of 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 so enjoyed the victory in the house can keep the victims of this flushed his 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 receives will. revenge was certainly an important motivated on perhaps the most important whitening but other factors also came into play, especially the internal military culture. and i read on him a band on vacations like casualties, one cool collision since 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 office, the

bus to the what i mean. what is this true for? the red army asked 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 seemed to justify not applying any moral standards in their dealings with them on the government. in the v, as on the 6 of 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 range you inclined. but to know if the village priest

rose in relief, the americans are coming. there's excitement, but no frights and excitements between frightened joy but leaning more towards george. a quarter of again late to the troops would withdrawal the 9 months later conrad was born. right off to his bus, his mother puts him in foster care when he was a, his 1st assistant told him the reason why or to 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 con. i get us and he's your father to hospice, to ej. that's how you came to be just for me at 1st. that was actually more of

a relief than a shot next i, scottish boss got kind of shock as well. i've been, i now i knew where i came from. it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, share. com. the shuttle holder. however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth extracted from an early age. i had a kind of inferior already complex. i didn't belong. i didn't know what i was at, and i had no protection, no one to protect me. no one supported me. 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 foreigner. his family was employed to take action before it's too late. for me, for me, my father was my anchor and guy, i had a secret that belonged only to me. there's one that gave me strength. and so 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 them. i'm far from the us soldiers went is widely fee it 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 were shown 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 n, a of the german people,

randomization means making friends. the german people on line or friends can advise you in general, armies forbid, rationalization i out of concern by informal contact is august. folders have with the domestic population, men to contact will lead to weakening the army, prefer oklahoma. com. that's the association with the on the i the and vincy done as my position. so if they start to have personal contacts and for example, you have a beer to bar to give them the evenings for them, they could lose sight, all 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 the strong resistance. that includes

the the young people of would take up arms and try to fight the us soldiers less so dot. and so became from a see to also it appears that the place is most resistance of being taken over. we're the ones most affected by sexualized war violence has just reduced on july, so toward getting things on on that that gets most for take most book near fries english clips. 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. or this in particular seems to have triggered a lot of anger in the us soldiers by then that led to an especially large number of sexual assaults which were carried out systematically hottest. apparently they made marks on houses. it, presumably inhabited by women, essentially declaring them to be prey clear about the troops arrival,

rushing 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 context that to provide any numbers here. several goals jumped out the 1st floor window onto the street and laid the engines. 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. the historians generalists like maximilian, the height the home here in buddhist us. here we have the report from the saint nicholas parish in bod. right. and how, how sock it 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, but this total give them $200.00. that's what the one that can be kind of for 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 could we stop with. but then the french troops squared advancing ice canyon cut off. and the word was they were committing terrible crimes and sickly. namely in moral terms, they committed terrible crimes against women and goals. so if you see of a rose colored 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. so fine. so is doing the blundering sort, talking about i can fund a thank you call me and did the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made it particularly strong impression 50 cool, to perform the goals,

troops for barbara street, they sold and robbed and chased after the women and the young girls locked themselves in the attic and each silver soldiers couldn't come in the 1st differential me also kept tax of sexual violent secrets. but when challenges were pressed, the military court stalled out particularly harsh sentences. defrances colonial troops. that's this most 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 on footwork and was clearly sold out, for instance, in the us army. the black culprits were charged more often. we 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 fronts. what will happen often operate on the train to the 2nd with the reputation with the german people found 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 upfront. 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 to buy orders of the military governor. so its own records that most of the rates would not, in fact commit to, to buy colonial troops. the, what was the item when 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 vic most from the moment i had to leave. i wasn't chavez, as a deer, was this tama the own for by was sent unprepared time for an country and was a foreign language by or live with nuns thus 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 frank, a file all coffee 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 can exist to the guns and all of the children fathered by french soldiers. so could, so were archived on the orders of general kennedy's unit. i could see 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 soaked as being right to the french occupations. 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. is this gynecologist noted in the vast majority of cases, no report was made to deal slower 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 vibe. now 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 casual that 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 woman involved as what kind of did, and she wasn't someone who'd have taken the initiative of mine and with that, so i think my mother had the opportunity to earn money from the french to get to put in, but in funds. so it wasn't often monica unexpectedly became pregnant, but 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 is in french congress shape the women's head well and chief

and through the villages on restore, and there was no difference in germany and induction the only on this the fall and the women weren't allowed to have lesions with the enemy of just that that didn't stop relationships from happening off to the 0. alas, struck mocking gemini surrender. people wanted to forget about the past. jem and women right 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 husbands and families as well. the most, 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 it. so 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. and many of them multiple times. the, these figures around the estimates this is done using old patient records and registration phones like those found in the all kinds of fun in school, but university files from the empress of goose to victoria house. children's hospital, for instance, shows 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 1st post. while he is american soldiers. a thought to have

committed over a 190000 sexual assaults. the figures are still on known for the british allied troops. the allies divided gemini on button and into full occupations. at a time, the occupiers became the liberators. from then on lots of says with allied soldiers windows, the rat soon no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks of to the was and is subject to does one long it 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 present today 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 reason relative izing and are off assessing to them and kill quickbooks us with of 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 gemini into 2 economic divisions and kicks down to the economic miracle in the west and half 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, so c d. u. used to stereotypical images of the enemy to stare up fees of the red menace. c d u candidate to comrade ida, now it became the 1st chance and the new republic. each realized move on the go to the occupation status and dates at optimality. choose 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, soon discouraged and clicks and in the store in west germany, western europe and the last 6 and the sexual violence committed by red army soldiers. pierce was often scandalized. i'd as allegedly be, especially in civilized or brutal for time. as with the student, the voices to or memories, the items 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. concordia was one of the contemporary witnesses, who recounted the story of his desperate search for his father, the in the

cyan, one to the side, to also known as liberal rates as take liberties direct to have cause. i'm the talks to victims, perpetrators and children. but one of right what the film makes clear for decades gym and society largely blamed these women and children and for the sites deputy forgot to overall by or do or does she still try to buy it? sure, 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 what's going on. and in my mother's case, my step father did everything. he could this a process, but things got damaged. i can get my sound 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 to mock by the disposal. and no one made it easy for them because if they tried to talk about it,

other speed wind up being punished all over again. this is really a visa see many women instead of a conflict with their own relatives afterwards with a much tougher to take them the rape itself. so his mother conrad young's very existence was proof of the so called shame. the 22 year old c on the g 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 bob or stuff? she asked me to come into the kitchen and sat down to the vision. i was just about to start when the door was thrown open when 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 dad. oh, do you have no business here? no reason to be here? just unix and leave our mother increase one less. what's on?

what do you do? we have absolutely nothing to do with him. leave the room scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. someone's vote on putting the, the, the, the for years now to come hide, you received a letter with a clear message the it was written not by his mother, but by her husband. the sooner the short by look for the blame and yourself not in others. we bear no responsibility whatsoever for you and strong, and that's the letter. this is deputy, the, the lifelong search for an unknown father for one's own identity for love and acceptance. these things of also left on know who is the with deep psychological

scars? not the mothers confuse. you always have the sense that house of justice 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 caused wants to kill him just enough butcher. in 1948. i know who is his mother. i got married to a frenchman. he to the ever so i know it was a, as the child born into shape, a rush claim. he was strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him. once before a storm, shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to stand me. the obviously the whole i said why i was always a good kid. so it was like an electrical shock with through me from top to bottom. it was that simple, $3200.00 children, but one of rate poorer officially registered in west germany and west berlin. still,

the number of unrecorded 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 does a fought 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. and 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. what also to boot will make time and time again calling about the present to the communist doseover at chase in 1986 east german officials decided to deport him to the west. the day before the protestant minister was forced to leave the country. he drove to compass one last

time it's wide on either mine and what 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 on a finger. 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 xbox was up the black market, trying to train a pair of shoes or fluid to come. then a truck drove in, filled with the russians, a despondent, they double down and conducted a rate on the market for an engineer. most cafe and they drove me out to a field that the army down on the ground. all answers are and one of them and held the machine gun to my temple while the other tore off my clothes down rate to me or do something from life. give us and obviously think about it is or done. the other

ones turn done with one give us the yes and i for within 20 minutes i became russian for 2 of us of the time it's all coming to my year long dream that i was american when buster so i mean, i call them i can shut it off 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 a 15 year old and a fast man, a b r, a slaves, the age of $94.00 at the end of the night she made her peace with the sexual violence. she didn't do it at 40. she says she became happy pass. thanks to then

nothing past the by yeah, yeah, he was very loving city, very loving. with any new i was afraid of mr. right. to cut it. yeah. yes. i also was afraid of the right guy or that mission, but he never pressured me. i said, and even when we were engaged, that seems like a really long time. yes. the, the reset davis, my name, i have my husband martin and my mother to thanks for this. that's the issue that i owe to my own surprise. everybody does. it can speak about it. i like for you a gun. the,

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