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in a box in the house next door would been evacuated from munich, complex. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries, the only trick, 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 will forgive you the ability, the scottish desk. how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows like this thoughts ok. the id network conveyed

all the hor, a gemini, is that we always said i was taken when we talked about it then that would be useful. choose yourself guilty. mind 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 is over here to show the soviet army, the americans, the french and the british glover. then via down the vibe, i think that if we're focusing primarily on the violent august admitted by the red army dock and they are holding a meet so constant. and then what we mean stuck in a very simplistic explanatory model. unclear on small special the think about doing is i did right. there's an old phone through passing in war time . psych with the vic to shows the enemy soldiers or the full time protect your

women. 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 took the crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live, leave the in europe to the 2nd world war had 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 head. but this was also a time that proved to be especially dangerous for women. the lineup, the need clicker set somebody conservative estimate are set to work close to 900000 rates. 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 after the surrender of nazi germany violated by those who came to europe as a super rates, as american british and french troops and soldiers from the soviet red army. this highest bestest means there's likely no german family or family that lived in

germany at the time that wasn't effected in some way. i know why is it the front, the coffee either completely to their own assault, or at least to the fear that it could happen to their own family members for this, i can then from in on gazillion plus young print, the only when she was 80 years old student maximilian. a high goes mother. my 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 land suit. 4 year old ma go her mother and the female cousins, so shell to bring the seller to fowling home to. so the women live together more or less without men. i'm just done keeping. and then in april 19, 45 and 50 starts to come back. when the bombardments of loans, who became too severe house, they fled to a house and fog off right. connected to the church, the

c i me to kind of where when the americans arrived, they forced their way into the house. one. yep. okay. there were several of them and they were heavily armed as how special they searching the house from top to bottom and then in a cupboard and one of the bedrooms, they saw them locks uniform hanging on a hanger. i'm really and then they asked, where is this man home? dung just talked with, where is this man, where is the soldier long voice? so thought went on sinking max and then they were more and more aggressive and true. the women into the bedroom dish off to make you 3. the ones done. com is in. so then so this in the bedroom, thus, um yeah, i know that one of the soldiers through my grandmother steps onto the bed of spit and tried to take her clothes off. yes,

it's the mungo state sign 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 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, especially in the villages. and was met with a wall of silence. as of this yesterday, faith, this sort of ours, i feel that i work wasn't a small rural area on the border between upper bavaria and lower bavaria and the district of altima english. to be very catholic community with a lot of social control. a back then i knew incidents had occurred yet. it took almost a year to find women and also men face. people were willing to tell me what happened

there. mean that the team have done. it said it almost the story. i my home, you know, so on and we were to so afraid of the soldiers through the russians coming here. so we'd heard terrible things about them and hope the americans would arrive before the russians use the shorter. yes, it was a 1st and we were at the native oceans to the virgin mary. you could hear the sounds of the tags and vehicles in the church. suddenly the priest said so that the enemy has forced its way into work. village is in doors and get to go home to read. no women and girls were to comport themselves with dignity and suites of the enemy used to be cut off a fine they

came upstairs to our place. 2 young americans looked at single measuring sticks and of course they saw my mother and my sister talk to them right away at point the for the vikings and x rays is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strict 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 violence, i was in a certain sense that so intimate, that it can rupture, family structures the to them, that connection on 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. that things to witness. the red armies rested advance into breast. now, the historical capital of site easier now known as the polish city of lots less

seated will assist at implementing is a big cities were destroyed, but not for as low as any wherever 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. the russians spend a ring around personnel in circling the city. breast slow was around 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 advancing. so the order to event to 8 came

fall to lights, the antibiotics was just 14 years old. at the time the divine in california were uncle reinhold center, and he was my father's youngest brother. the say it was nothing regarding my mind. i can still see a sitting there in a circle like this. i sat here and my mother was next to me. the windows done on the mom's other side sat. my brother then 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 doorstep. it happened that his son see it like the show in the spring night. and what the miami land one another, i'm on soft tissue of the land and how much i were among around 1400000 women who were raped 12 fleeing east prussia or site easier often more than once nazi propaganda about the red menace meant fever. the soviet soldiers was especially great not to me, and felt like one more afraid of the slavic peoples in india because of the rid of

his hire, p of the time they were portrayed as monstrous months primitive. a thing as beast driven by physical urges, as best jim conciseness warden bonds of accordingly, they triggered more fears of colors out of him and his own to rush, calculated their opponents, eventual, or full revenge into that comes in his diary minister of propaganda. yoseph gathers quoted to hit nervous saying, not long after nazi germany's invasion of the soviet union in 1941. we have so much to answer for that, we must win because otherwise our entire nation with us, the tips head will be a right to k to along with all we hold the. so let's get to walk in the direction for picking 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 miracle, but unable to well. but if the red army came to germany, then god have mercy on us all at once. cool. stones of 1945, the russian army stood 80 kilometer as outside but then 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 nazi germany 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. and 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 receive as well. revenge was certainly an important motivated on perhaps what most important whitening but other factors also came into play, especially the internal military culture. and i read amin, a band on vacations like casualties. one whole cohesion, bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks. and then to relieve this pressure, they've let their own troops run wild kind of office the

best 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 of deduction funds seemed to justify not applying any moral standards in their dealings with them on the documents in the v, as obviously as 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 april they already reached the rings you

inclined, but to know the village priest, roach, and 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 late to the troops with 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 news helped me out to you. it's not all she told me in 1945, the americans were in eisenberg and your mother got involved with one of those americans didn't get us and he's your father to hospice to ensure that's how you came to be just for me at 1st that was actually more of a relief than

a shot xt. i got his boss car and truck as well. i mean, i know i know where i came from its full voice bullshit. com, the shuttle holder. however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth. distracted from an early age, i had a kind of inferior already complex. if 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. 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. for me, 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 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 enjoying my father and america. i'm just a resume, big of getting a hotmail. i got them. i'm far from the us. soldiers went as 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 the 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 any of the german people. randomization 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 as august suitors have with the domestic population, men, the contacts delete who we can name is that 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 to 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 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 have dish reduced on killers, 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 on bar. 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. apparently they made marks on houses, it presumably inhabited by women, essentially declaring them to be pre clear this report about the troops arrival

received by the priest of the town as most book states. on monday, the 1st news about rates 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 that in just the at the time rec, trees were among the few gym and institutions still functioning. said that the very m priests reports on the allies arrive, will remain an important source for historians. and janet is slight 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 i saw people as high 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 to give them 200. that's what the one that can be kind of from this

formulation. so priest makes it clear that he has no personal knowledge of the method, but it's just for laying what the townsfolk sayings from 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 bouncing ice cream and cut off and the wood walls, they were 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 guns violates to force that way. unit 9, this is, it was fairly typical to mention the skin color of the soldiers or fine who is doing the plundering sort off or i can fund a thank you call me in good. the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made a particularly strong impression 50 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 fast differential me also kept tax of sexual violent secrets. but when challenges were pressed, the military court stole down particularly harsh sentences. defrances colonial troops that says most of the racism of societies back then, not just the german much, but also the british, french and american ones which is reflected in the numbers of convicted and sentenced and perpetrators on foot. what it was clearly so that for instance, in the us army, the black culprits were charged more often was it also received much pressure sentences, including the death penalty as possible. and so to discover differential

occupied the territory near the french gym. 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. funds will happen often the rate on the train had the 2nd with reputation, with the german people on that apply only to prove that folks also see it. that could be reprisal included as revenge for the full year long term and occupation in front. and due to the facts, there were many sexual assaults when the french marched into south west in germany, book 50 or in the french occupations. and children followed by french. so just have to be registered by orders of the military governor. so it's on record that most of the rates 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 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 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 vic most from the moment i had to leave. i wasn't shocked as a deer, was this tama the own slow by was sent unprepared time, foreign country and was a foreign language by or live with nuns. that's why i was 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 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 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 certainly existed and the french archives even exist to like the guns and all of the children fathered by french soldiers. so dot and good, so we're archived on the orders of general kennedy's unit. i cruise from this document on a wholesale also lent her father's name full bath. yet she's never been able to find him. many thousands of women assault as being right to the friendship to patients by the summer of 1945,

the consequences of that sexual violence had become old to clear. many women wanted to have an abortion, but to be granted when they needed to have previously reported. the rate says 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 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 than 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 mother was, a very reserved woman involved is what kind of did issue wasn't someone who not taken the initiative as mine and with that, so i think my mother had the opportunity to earn money from the french can to put in. but in console 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 cheek after the war. women normally weren't permitted to have a relationship with a frenchman. no, i'm in northern america in nor an englishman, nor

a russian deed for him and friends, the shape, the women table and cheese and through the village, a 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 all kinds of fun in school, but university files from the empress of goose to victoria house children's hospital. for instance, i showed that 5 percent of the children born between the end of 1945 on the summer of 1946 had russian fathers. in many of these cases, the only entry on the line for the father is russian. and in parentheses, the german word for right in the entire sylvia talked to patients and historians estimate that more than $500000.00 women would

rate during the fast paced while he is american soldiers 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. of the time, the occupiers became deliberate is from then on love affairs with allied soldiers when no longer wrath. soon no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks off to the wars and is subject to terms with us one long 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. it's hard to point a finger at the allies because very

quickly you can reach on relative izing and roll assessing to them and 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 half the political division followed just again later. the republic of germany held its 1st parliament the elections in 1949 on their 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 combat ida now i became the 1st chumps and the new republic realize who wagner got to the occupation status and data at odda, now its height is country site to the west. now, at the latest, it was also in west germany's political interests that the guilt for crimes

committed by the allies was placed solely upon the soviets. harfers, especially during the war. so in this kind of cakes and in the 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 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 the side to also known as liberal rates as take liberties direct to have cause on the talks to victims, perpetrators and children born of rank. what the phil makes clear for decades, german society 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 confront. take 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 a plank got damaged. i can do my own shopping 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. god h for the sixty's, i mean the kind of plan to bring this american into play is it bought or so she asked me to come into the kitchen and sat down to 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 have you started yelling or not getting out of here. good. get out here that will 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 politics. leave the room, scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. so i'm going to give you the, the for years now 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 sooner the short by look for the blame and yourself and not in others. we, there are 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 cars wants to kill them just enough direction. in 1948, i know who was his mother. i got married to a frenchman. he to the ever so i know it was a, as the child born into shape as i was playing with strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him once before a storm, shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to stand me 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, 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 us had no rights to compensation. that's what does a fought 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 where essentially civilian war victims on an equal footing with war disabled soldiers successfully at the farm. in east germany, rates conducted by red army soldiers were also to boot. he'll 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 offs 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 the scene. and she started to sob and cry something awful. and i tried to kind of trust. i have no idea of what you want as to why you're telling me this. there is no american, not 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 and filled with the russian was despondent. they jumped down and conducted a rate on the market. a good engines and me a host. then they drove me out to a field that fell on me down on the ground on one of them and held the machine gun into my temple while the other tore off my clothes downright. to me. oh, there's something from life, give us and obviously think about it is or done,

the other one's turn done with one. 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 it's diagnosed and from a perspective of an almost 15 year old and a fest, cynthia newbie of us lived to the age of $94.00. at the end of her life, she made her peace with the sexual violence. she didn't do it at 40. she says she

became a happy pass. thanks to them now for the past. 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 guy on 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 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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