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women who would been infatuated from munich black. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries, i the truck last night. i was like, what had gone there because i couldn't sleep. and they said yes. people had common rates. the women scream were so horrendous by this law. so i please the submission and actually it was a nationwide catastrophe. one that effected an entire generation full for give you the ability the scottish desk. how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows like this thoughts of the area that were conveyed all the hor,

it definitely is that we always said i was taken when we talked about it. then the advisors for my treat yourself guilty and you felt dirty game that i come in. the hopes are in general. so you can see that not enough have to meet of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violence x and the guy talking. always good tom. these are we have to show the soviet army, the americans, the french and the british law, live in via damage via i think that if we're focusing primarily on the violence, august emitted by the red army, talking to holton. i'm meet so constantly and then what we mean stuck in a very simplistic explanatory model. cleveland small special. the ticket was doing is i did right. there's an old account through the pass in, in war time, sykes with the vic to shows the enemy,

soldiers or the from the front protect your women, mina, and it's a way of diesel entering the men's military on out. if you think the just about i was searching for my identity for 40 years is crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live, leave the in europe to the 2nd world war. i just come to an end gym and she's

a 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 need clicker said somebody, conservative estimate are set to work close to 900000 great victim. all the number of 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 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 and advise it up front. the coffee either completely to their own assault or at least to the fear that it could happen to their own family members for this. i can then from in on googling pepsi, i'm printing the only when she was a 2 years old student maximilian, a hikers mother in law, goes speak of 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 lands. hoot, 4 year old ma go her mother and the female cousin. so shell to bring the seller to fowling home so. so the women live together more or less without men. i'm just on gig and then in april 19, 45 and 50 shots to come back. when the bombardments of lungs, 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 on for 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 house they saw on the search and the house from top to bottom. and then in a cupboard in 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? donkey fox, where is this man? where is the soldier long 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. com is incentive, then that's reducing the bedroom thoughts. um yeah, i know that one of the soldiers threw my grandmother steps onto the bed of spit and tried to take her clothes off. yes,

it's the mungo stayed silent 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 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 was matched with the 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 the upper bavaria and lower bavaria. i think in the districts of altitude. 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

a space who were willing to tell me what happened there. me not a team have done it. said it almost the story. i my a be a long yeah. so all, and we weren't so afraid of the soldiers through the russians coming here. so we'd heard terrible things about them, but hope the americans would arrive before the russians. you saw the ears. it was a 1st and we were at the made of oceans to the virgin mary. you could hear the sounds of the tags 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 were to comport themselves with dignity and space of the enemy be cut off of find they came upstairs to our place. 2 young americans looked like single measuring

sticks, and of course they saw my mother and my sister. talk to them right away when the side of items annexed rate is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strictly actions against their tolerating it. and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims. ex, sealed by 6, because the actual violence i was 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 a long term, long for us to get charged around. come now, need be honest as we can down the traumatic experiences. she associates with february of 1945, but then she, with the red armies, rested thompson to press now the historical capital of st. 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 red 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 simple walks and stuff to the russians from. it's on the same. so the order 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. the window started on the mom's other side, sat, my brother vince feed, my youngest brother, the interest of the stillman, i stormed in and we just sat like the dog is this size. the i don't know if we

screened or cried. we trembled sitting there. how does this come? i know one soldier came in, the city looked around me, saw me set and yanked me towards him. the look and mother cried out the spice didn't know exactly and how he threw me on the floor in the drawer and stop it happened that it is done. i see it like they should be in the spring night, and what that the landing land one another i am on soft tissue of the 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 or about the red menace meant fear of the soviet soldiers was especially great not to me and felt like one more afraid of the slavic peoples in the because of the rid of this higher key of the time they were portrayed as

monstrous, most primitive, a thing as beast driven by physical urges as best 10 guitars, ms. wharton vaughn. so accordingly they triggered more fears of colors. angel fits on his own to roush, calculated their opponents, eventual or full revenge into that comes in his diary, minister of propaganda use if gathers quoted to hit nervous saying not long, often not see 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, the tips head will be around to k to along with all the whole deal. so let's get to work. good for picking the nazi leadership. the heads of the van law and even individual soldiers was suddenly conscious like the german crime is committed in the eastern territories and they ordered them knew about them, sold them,

or even committed them if they knew all too well that 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, but then was preparing its attack on the german capital. close to 3000000 people was still living that among the women panic was growing many. so killing themselves as the only way to evaluate the enemy. in april, the number of suicides in berlin reached record levels that place to 4000 the on the 8th of may 1965, hitler's note c gemini surrendered. the last great best of the 2nd world war on european soil was now as the villages

leading was one huge war trophy. the soldiers were given free reign to enjoy the victory, and even in the house can keep the victims of this flesh of victory. but 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 envy students will 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 and a casualties. one poll cohesion says bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks with them. and then to relieve this pressure, they've let their own troops run, wilds kind of office the

bus to do what i mean. what is this true for the red army us for the us army? was that troops had certain images of the more of the probity of german society and german women, the shops of discharge. and these seem to justify not applying any moral standards and their dealings with them on the document in the the, it's on the says of the us army from the west seem to worried the gem and population less. in march of 1945, the americans cross the rhine, and by 8 pul, they'd already reached the range you inclined, but no,

the village priest wrote him relief. the americans are coming. there's excitement, but no frights and excitement between frightened joy, but leaning more towards george a quarter of a year later the troops would withdrawal. the 9 months later, concordia was born right off days by his mother put him in foster care. when he was age, his 1st assistant told him, the reason why to help me out to your console. she told me in 1945, the americans were in eisenberg and your mother got involved with one of those americans. and he's your father to hospice, to ensure that's how you came to be with this army of 1st,

that was actually more of a relief than a shot. ext scottish boss got kind of shock as well. i mean, i know i knew where i came from. it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, share come the shuttle holder. however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth. extracted from an early age. i had a kind of in theory 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 them in my childhood, no one ever took me under their wing, need an ongoing no more. comrade was a cheeky kid too soon became a thorn in the side of the east gym, and 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 and i had a secret that belonged only to me. there's one that gave me strength. and so i

really was like i was on a kind of mission as the dust destinies. the screw you, i'm in america, you're one day i'll leave here and join my father and america. i'm just as soon as i can get off. i mean, i've got them. i am far from the us soldiers. wenches, 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 german 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 any of the german people. privatization means

making friends with 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, the contacts delete, we can name is that the army prefer. oklahoma. com. that's the association with the on me. as soon vincy done as my position, so if they start to have personal contacts and for example, you have a beer to par, to give them the evenings for them, they could lose sight all of the occupying powers goals. often click but the us so just advance didn't, to waste goes smoothly. the liberation of bavaria took several weeks, well in some places, jim and surrendered without to fight just a few kilometers away. fitness, last contingents would continue to protect us from resistance. that includes

the it was still young people of 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 with the ones most affected by sexualized war violence have dish me dish, centralize that water gain to run 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 in the us soldiers. but 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 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 reach 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 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 generalists like maximilian, the height of the home here in buddhist us. here we have the report from the saint nicholas parish in bod, right. and have a solid people as far as 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 him $200.00. that's the kind for this formulation. so priest

makes it clear that he has no as personal knowledge of the method, but it's just for laying what the townsfolk sayings fun home to be the room. and then comes the frequently confirmed information that's all off to the americans marched in there was relative peace could we stop it? but then the french troops were advancing ice canyon cut off. and the would all say with committing terrible crimes in safety, 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 or fine who is doing the plundering salt or i can phone. and you call me in good. the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made a particularly strong impression duty cool trooper from 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 1st 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 access most of the racism of societies back then, not just the german, but also the british, french and american ones. if she is reflected in the numbers of convicted and sentenced and perpetrators, um is a foot and 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, and so to discover differential occupied the territory near the fence,

jim and buddha here in south west 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 are great on the train, and the 2nd was 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 in front. and in fact, there were many sexual assaults when the french marched into south west in germany . if you look 50 in the french occupations, and children follow that by french, so just have to be registered by orders of the military governor. so it's on record that most of the rapes would not, in fact commit to, to by colonial troops. the goals, the item, one in february 1946 was one of these frenchman's kids. she grew up with her

grandmother in as an engineer concert. she knows nothing about the events surrounding her conception. only that her father was a french soldier. at the age of 10 ana, who was, 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 chavez, as a deer, was this tama the own slow by was sent unprepared when foreign country and was a foreign language by or live with nuns. that's laws that wasn't dramatic change for me is most the funds i had to learn french, but i was there for 3 years on became a french one. is punters. i was a forced frank, a file coffee, the unique, fucked. while i was never asked what i wanted, excuse me, and nothing was ever explained to me. to do some type,

pulled me up to the point in time when i learned that there was an archive e coma in clermont and from the french archive, i knew nothing at all on each brought on. then i was outraged that i was an honest, familiar timeframe, each box for the funds. awesome. 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 were 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 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, an 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 or less as the cost of divisions that when in doubt the ruling 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 was meant to realistic and wanted something from the soldiers. and 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 the city of casual that she met the french soldier who would become, i know, who was his father mine and what the law i mother was a very reserved woman 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 and console isn'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. no, i'm in northern american, nor an englishman, nor a russian deed for him and friends, the shape,

the women table and cheese and through the villages on their stuff. and it was no different than germany inductions only on this the fall and the women weren't allowed to have lesions with the enemy of a just that, 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 held partly 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 liked we never spoke about it, not even with their husbands when they eventually returned. plus there was no intact infrastructure that could have dealt with it. so there was no legal framework whatsoever from the german police or the german courts. or 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 loved many of them multiple times. these figures around the estimates this is done using old patient records and registration phones, like those found in the archives of buttons, comple 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 women were rates during the fast paced while he is american soldiers of thought to have committed

over a 190000 sexual assaults. the fig as a still unknown for 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 affairs with allied soldiers when the longer rash soon no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks of to the was and is subject terms 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 for the day, for 2 reasons. the 1st they're out present to allies all and 2nd, because especially on the german side with all the crimes carried out in germany's name during world war 2. but it's hard to point a finger at the allies because very

quickly, well, you can reach on relative izing and assessing to them and guild clicking breakfast with of to 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 the political division followed just again later. the republic of germany held its 1st parliamentary elections in 1949 on the election post as the christian democrat. so c, d. u used the stereotypical images of the enemy to stare up, fees of the red menace. c d u candidate to colorado, odda, now i became the 1st chumps and the new republic. realize who wagner got to the occupation status and data at ogden, our tides use 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 and so in this kind of fix and in the store in west germany, western europe and the last 6 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, come back with me for the early in 1992 to the documentary. once again, take up the controversial topic of rates committed by allied troops implies told gemini, concordia was one of the contemporary witnesses, recounting the story of his desperate search for his father, the in the

science on to the side, to also known as liberators. take liberties direct to have cars on the talks to victims, perpetrators and children born of rank. what the phil makes clear for decades, german society naturally blamed these women and children, and for the faith deputy forgot to tell about their deceased, excited 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, what ended my mother's case. my step father did everything he could this oppressive attract built image. i can diminish talking examples. why was this such a to boot 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 to other speed,

wind up being punished all over again. is really like a visa. see many women instead of a conflict with their own relatives afterwards with much tougher to take them the rape itself. so he's not the conrad yonce. 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 got inch for the sixty's. i mean, they kind of plan to bring this american into play and you bought stuff. she asked me to come into the kitchen and sat down to the shit i was just about to start when the door was thrown open and her husband was standing in the kitchen doorway when your mutton stunted decoration to you and he started yelling. we're not getting out of here. good. get out here that'll do you have no business here? no reason to be here, justin. and leave our mother and police one last. what's on,

what do you do? we have absolutely nothing to do with alex. leave the room, scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. one is a vote on putting the, the, the, the for you as a to come, how do you received a left? so with a clear message, the it was written not by his mother, but by her husband, the so destroyed by look for the blame and yourself and not in others. we bear no responsibility whatsoever for you 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 proceeded. you always have the sense that house of kids 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 cards wants to kill them just enough to 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 a strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him. once before at the store. and shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to stand me a little 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 born of rate were 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 4 adults had no right 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. boy, and it would have put the women who was sensually 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. he'll make time and time again comes at the present to the communist dose over at chase. in 1986 east german 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. it's right on either mine and what off. so i wanted to visit my mother one last time. i am signal for the sole purpose of having her telling me the name of the american homicide on a single. and she started to sob and cry something awful and try to kind of trust. i have no idea what you want as to why you're telling me this. there is no american on the on x, the wasn't as developed our truck xbox. i was at the black market trying to try and a pair of shoes or food to come. then a truck drove in, filled with the russians or despondent. they jumped down and conducted a rate on the market for an engineer. most cafe and they drove me out to a field at the army down on the ground, all answers to him, one of them and held the machine gun into my temple, while the other tore off my clothes down, raped me. oh, there's something from life. give us and obviously think about it is or done then

it was the other ones turn done with one. give us the yes. in order to within 20 minutes i became russian for 2 of us. the time it's all coming to me or 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 be. and then at the time these assignments and from the perspective of an almost 15 year old and a fast didn't yeah. man, need the slaves the age of 94. 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 happy pass. thanks to then nothing past the by yeah, yes. and he was very loving, very loving with any new i was afraid of mr. wright to cut it. yeah, yes. i also was afraid of the right guy. what that means, but he never pressured me. i said and even when we were engaged that's yeah, that's a really long time. yes. the, the reset davis, my name, i have my husband martin and my mother to thank for this. that's the issue that i owe to my own surprise. if i just can speak about it. i wait for you a gun. the

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