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in a box in the house next door would been infatuated from munich complex. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries, the only truck plus i was like, what had gone there because i couldn't sleep. and they said yes, people had common rates, the women you can see on the screen were so horrendous by this law. so please the submission. and actually it was a nationwide catastrophe. one that effected an entire generation full for give you the kind of the t, the cabbage task. how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows like this thoughts. ok. the idea that word conveyed

all the hor, families that we always said was taken when we talked about it the next 12 months. you'd yourself realty, you felt dirty game that i come in yet help saga in general. so you can see that not enough have to meet of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violence fixer and the guy talking. always good tom. these are we have to shop a silvia army, the americans, the french and the british. glover then via damage vibe. i think that if we're focusing primarily on the violence committed by the red army dock and they are holding a meet so constantly and then what we mean stuck in a very simplistic explanatory model actually on small special for the for the while doing is i did right, there's an old cultural passing in wartime psych with 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 either the is about so it's if 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. the 2nd world war had just come to an end. german cities lay in ruins. in 1945, the months between the end of fight thing and a new beginning. what sort of chaos, dispatch euphoria, guilt on type. but this was also a time that proved to be especially dangerous for women. the mind need, flicker said somebody, conservative estimate, or to set the word 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 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 . i know why is it that from 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 this, i can then from in, on googling pepsi and print the only when she was a 2 years old student maximilian, a high goes 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 to sell the women live together more or less without men townsley son. keegan. and then in april 1945 and 50 started speaking. but when the bombardment 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 on for when the americans arrived, they forced their way into the house on this one. 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 in one of the bedrooms, they saw them locks uniform, hanging on a hanger on you and then they asked, where is this man home? donkey fox with where is this man? where is the soldier long voice? so thought went on st. pete max and then they are 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 seduce 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, the logo 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 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 was matched with a will of silence. as of this yes, to faith, the sort of ours i feel that i worked wasn't a small rural area on the border between upper bavaria and lower bavaria. i think in the districts of altitude english can 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 home. yeah. so, oh man, we weren't so afraid of the soldiers or the russians coming fusion. we'd heard terrible things about them and hope the americans would arrive before the russian. we'll see who's they 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 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 the space of the enemy will be cut off of find

they came upstairs to our place. 2 young americans looked the single measuring sticks, and of course they saw my mother and my sister talk to them right away at the sight of items. unexcused rate is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strictly actions against a total of the, of their tolerating it. and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims exceed all spite 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 the 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 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 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 and it was a fortress, i'm sure that's the one that fist on the city was supposed to serve as a pool, walks and stops 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 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 with me and my mother was next to me. the windows done on the mom's other side sat my brother vin feed, my youngest brother, and you can still see 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. does this come? i know one soldier came in. the sea looked around me, saw me sad and young to be 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 is done. i see it like the show in the spring night, and what the miami land one another on on saw issue of the land and 10 mazda were among around 1400000 women who were raped 12 fleeing east of prussia or site. easier, often, more than once nazi propaganda about the red menace meant fever. 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 his hire p of the time they were portrayed as monstrous months. primitive. i think i've been driven by physical urges, as best jim guitar is ms. wharton voss 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 get nervous saying, not long of to 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 eradicated along with all the whole deal. so let's get to walk the direction for breaking 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 they ordered them knew about them,

sold them, or even committed the michel. they knew all too well that a red army came to germany, then god have mercy on us all at once. cool. the stones of 1945, the russian army stood. 80 kilometer is outside but then and was preparing its attack on the gem and capital. close to 3000000 people was still living that among the women, panic was growing. many so killing themselves is the only way to evade the enemy. in april, the number of suicides in berlin reached records 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. if 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, takes, and as your rightful spoils, the civic, and we speak as well. revenge was certainly an important mode to until i have to the most important whitening but other factors also came into play, especially the internal military culture. and i read amin, a band on vacations, in hi casualties. one pool code agents of bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks on monday in to relieve this pressure, they've let their own troops run wild kind of office the

bus to do 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 and german women, dodge. and these seem to justify not applying any moral standards and their dealings with them. and the documents in the, the as obviously as of the us army from the west seem to worried the gym and population less. in march of 1945, the americans crossed the rhine and by april they already reached the ring. g,

a incline button of the village, priest rose in 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 conrad was born. right off to his bus, his mother put him in foster care when he was 8, his 1st assistant told him the reason why the mail to you. it's not until she told me in 1945 and 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 and that's

how you came to be with this army of 1st that was actually more of a relief than a shot next. the scottish voss car and truck as well. i mean, i know i know where i came from hits. boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, share. com. the shuttle holder. however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth distracted 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. 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. 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 anger and guy. 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, you're one day i'll leave here and join my father and america. i'm just doing so big of getting a hotmail. i got them. i'm far from the us soldiers, wenches, wiley 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 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. 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 the lead to weakening the army, prefer oklahoma. com. that's the association with the on me. as soon vincy done as much as we can, 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 of simply 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. hitting this last contingents would continue to protect us

from resistance. that you, 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 resistant to being taken over with the ones most affected by sexualized war violence. no have dish me, dish, centralize that water game deacons on, on that that gets the most for take most book near fries, 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 on bar. 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. apparently they made marks on houses, it presumably inhabited by women,

essentially declaring them to be pray clear to bound the troops arrival, written 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 of 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 to give them 200. 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 townsfolk sayings from home to be the room, the voice and then comes the frequently confirmed information that's all off to the americans. marketing there was relative peace could we stop with, but then the french troops squared bouncing ice cream and cut off. and the wood 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 would use guns 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 of what i can find and you call me in good. the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made it particularly strong impression 50 cool troop of 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 this most, 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 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. funds will happen often the rate on the train had the 2nd with 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 of front and doing the facts . 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 to buy orders of the military governor. so it's on record that most of the rates will not, in fact commit you to buy colonial troops the most 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, i know who it was. 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 shocked as a deer, was this tama owned for by was sent unprepared time for a 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. one became a french one. is punters. i was a forced frank, a file hockey, the unique, fucked. while i was never asked what i wanted, excuse me, and nothing was ever explained to me,

to be so do some type pulling up to the point in time. when i learned that there was an archives, you called math in clermont, and from the french archive, i knew nothing at all. on each rod on then i was outraged that i wasn't honest, familiar timeframe. each box for this console isn't. so the shadow, i know 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 crooning 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. as this gynecologist noted, in the vast majority of cases, no report was made to deal so retains out of shame and to see a disgrace. consequently, in almost every case and incredibly time consuming investigation was necessary to differentiate the real rate cases from the site ones. the viper, male sexuality was basically viewed as unreliable unless the cost of division instead, 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 her so else or sold yourselves 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 i mother was a very reserved one. involved is what kind of did issue wasn't someone who's not taking 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 in funds. so it was after 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, norton norton, american, nor the englishman, nor

a russian deed for him. and friends honk 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 default to women weren't allowed to have lesions with the enemy of a just at that and stop relationship 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 the husbands and families 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 one task 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, allowed many of them multiple times. 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. and 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. a time the occupiers became the liberators. from then on lots of says with allied soldiers when no longer wrath 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. first, 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. it's on to point to finger the allies because very quickly you can read relative izing and off assessing to them and deal of 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 germany 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 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. each realized move on the go to the occupation status and data at odda. now it tied to these countries 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 or 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 out of the voices 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 to gemini, con heidi i was one of the contemporary witnesses recounting the story of his

desperate search for his father. in the cyan, one to the side, to also known as liberators. take liberties direct to have cars on the talks to victims, perpetrators and children born of right. what the film makes clear, the decades german society largely blamed these women and children for the phase deputy border. the overall buyers are just used to try to buy insurance. 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 to suppress it, but think built damage. i can do some shopping 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 the most 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, of the many women to satisfy the conflict with their own relatives afterwards was much tougher to take them to rape itself. so his mother conrad ya, its very existence was proof of time. so cold 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. god inch for the sixty's. i mean the kind of plan to bring this american into play and you bought your stuff. 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 stunted decoration to you and he started yelling, but not getting out of here. good. get out to your dad. oh,

do you have no business here? no reason to be here just to next and leave our mother and cheese one last was on. what do you know? well, we have absolutely nothing to do with him. leave the room, scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. so i'm going to give you the, the 4 years later, conrad, you received a left. so 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 the who was the item was deep

psychological scars, not the most. because you, 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 caused wants to kill them just enough butcher. in 1948. i know who was his mother. i got married to a frenchman, he to the other, so i know it was a, as the child born into shame, a rush claim. he was strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him. but before the storm, shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to end me or reset the loan. 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. $3200.00 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 war and thus had no rights to compensation. thus, what does a slot from death 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 was centrally civilian war victims on an equal footing with war disabled soldiers. 6 busy at the farm in east germany rapes conducted by red on me. so just what also to be told make time and time again comes at the present to the communist doseover 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. it's right on the i've, i mind them with off. so i wanted to visit my mother one last time. i am seeking for the sole purpose of having her telling me the name of the american homicide on the scene. and she started to sob and cry something awful. and i'm sure it's going to trust. i have no idea what you want as to why are you telling me this? there is no american, not on the on x. the. it wasn't as developed our truck xbox was up the black market trying to try to pair of shoes or fluid to come in. then a truck drove in, filled with the russian was the dish department. they jumped down and conducted a rate on the market for an engines, and most of them they drove me out to a field the army down on the ground, all answers to 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, the other ones turn done to the fun. give us the yes and i for within 20 minutes i became russian for 2 of us. the time it's all coming probably on or my year long dream that i was american when buster so i mean i call them i can set 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 15 year old and a fast didn't yeah, think man, maybe of us lived to 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 a happy pass. thanks to the novice has the by. yeah, yes. and he was very loving, very, very loving with any new i was afraid of mr. right to. yeah. yes. i also was afraid of the right guys or that mission, but he never pressured me. i said that even when we were engaged, that seems like a really long time. yes. yeah. busy 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 wait for you. a gun, the

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