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complex. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries by the end of the truck last night. that's why what had gone there because i couldn't sleep. and they said yes, people had common rates. the women, young people on the screen might, we're so her rendered by this law. so please the, this as soon as you 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 of the area that were conveyed all the hor, the 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 on the help site in general. so you can see that not enough have to meet of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violent fix. and the guy talking all screwed tom, these are, we have to show the soviet army, the americans, the french and the british glover then via damage vibe. i think that if we're focusing primarily on the violet 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. actually a long small, special the think about doing is i did right. there's an old phone to pass in wartime psych with the vic to shows the enemy soldiers or the front on protect your women, mina,

and it's a way of diesel entering the men's military on of if you think the shop i was searching for my identity for 40 years that is crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live, leave the in europe. 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 said somebody conservative estimate to set the work close to 900000 rates victim all the rapes themselves, could be much higher because many victims were raped multiple times or to go for the body to support women were raped by allied soldiers in the 1st weeks and months of the surrender of nazi germany violated by those who came to europe as a neighbor 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 and print the only when she was a 2 years old student maximilian. a haiku smelled the ma. go speak of her 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. i'm just on gig. and then in april 19, 45 and 50 shots 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,

i'd still need to kind of don't swear 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. his 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 on you 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 on tongue st. pete max and then they were more and more aggressive and true the women into the bedroom to show off to make you 3. the once done comments in so then so this in the bedroom thoughts um yeah, i know that one of the soldiers through my grandmother steps onto the bed of spit and tried to take her clothes off. yes,

it's the mungo states, silent for decades. no 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 entered bavaria. she began looking for witnesses to this history and especially in the villages was matched with the will of silence. as of this yesterday, faith, this sort of ours, i feel that i worked wasn't a small rural area on the border between upper bavaria and lower bavaria. thing in the districts of altitude, english, to be very catholic community with a lot of social control, the backs in new incidents had occurred as yet. it took almost a year to find women and also men face. people 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 were to so afraid of the soldiers. those are the russians coming here. so we'd heard terrible things about them, but hopefully americans would arrive before the russians use this shorter. yes, it was a 1st and we were at the made of oceans to the virgin mary. you could hear the sounds of a chance 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 the space of the enemy used to be cut off a fine 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 him right away when the type of items and x ray is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strict actions against a total of the, of their tolerating it. and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims exceed by 6 because the actual violent sizes in a certain sense that so intimate, that it can rupture families structure as the 2 of them. that connection nines, the social cohesion of a society in the long term i'm supposed to get charged around. come, nanny, be honest, has written down the traumatic experiences. she associates with february of 1945. but then she, with the red armies rested advance into breast. now, the historical capital of science 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 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 russian send a ring around personnel in circling the see breast slow was around it, and it was a fortress. i'm the ones that fist on the city was supposed to serve as a bull wilks and stops the russians from advancing. so the odor to event to 8 came

fall to lights, the new need, the alice was just 14 years old. at the time 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. a witness done on the mom's other side set. 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 he screened or cried. we trembled sitting there. how does this

come? i know one soldier came in the sea, looked around me, saw me set and yanked me towards him. the look and mother cried out the spice didn't know exactly how he threw me on the floor in the drawer and stop it happened that it's done. i see it like this the spring. imagine what the planning land one another i am on solve issue of the land and 10 mazda were among around 1400000 women who were raped 12 fleeing east prussia or site easier. often modem, one's nazi propaganda about the red menace meant fever. the soviet soldiers was especially great to me and felt like one more afraid of the slavic peoples, even in the because in the rid of this higher key of the time they were portrayed

as monstrous months primitive. a thing as beast driven by physical urges as best jim conciseness warden vaughan. so accordingly they triggered more fears of colors . angel's hedge, the on his own to rush, calculated their opponents eventually or full revenge into that comes in his diary, minister of propaganda. yoseph gathers quoted, hit 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 old. we hold the. so let's get to work the direction for breaking in the nazi leadership. the heads of the van most and even individual soldiers was certainly conscious like the german crime was committed in the eastern territories and they ordered them knew about them, sold them more,

even committed them, if they knew all too well that if the red army came to germany then, god have mercy on us all at once. cool. still active, 1945. the russian army stood 80 kilometer as outside but then and 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 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, 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 get the victims of this flesh of 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 nbc 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, it's like casualties. one cool cohesion system, bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks on monday and to relieve this pressure. they've left their own troops, run, wilds, 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 of deduction funds seemed to justify not applying any moral standards and their dealings with them on the document in the the as on the says that the us army from the west seem to worried the german population less. in march of 1945, the americans cross the rhine and by 8 pull, they'd already reached the range you inclined. but to know if the village priest

wrote him release, the americans coming, there's excitement, but no frights and excitement between frightened joy. but leaning more towards joyce, the a quarter of again later the troops would withdrawal. the 9 months later, conrad was born right off to his bus, his mother pushed him in foster care. when he was age, his foster system told him the reason why news that mail to you. it's not until 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 part of me at 1st. that was actually

more of a relief than a shot xt. i got it. i bought a car and truck as well. i mean, i know i know where i came from. it's full voice bullshit. com. the shuttle holder. however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth extracted from an early age. i had a kind of inferior already complex. i didn't belong. i didn't know 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 on going to move. the comrade was a cheeky kid too soon became a thorn in the side of the east. german school system is 3rd grade report card states that he constantly interrupted. lessons and was proud to be a farmer and his family was employed to take action before it's too late. the harbor of options for me, my father was my anchor and guy, i had a secret that belonged only to me. there's one that gave me strength and so it was

like i was on a kind of mission or the dust destinies. there are 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, 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 the distance from the gym and pico 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 is august. soldiers have with the domestic population, men, the contacts delete to reconnect with 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. 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 afraid to clear this report about the troops

arrival, received 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 and 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, oh, sorry. i 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 tool gives them $200.00. that's what the one that can be kind 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 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 with. but then the french troops were advancing ice cream and cut off. and the word was they were committing terrible crimes and sickly. namely in moral terms, they committed terrible crimes against women and goals. so he is a rhodes college americans use gun violates to force that way, unit 9. and this is, it was truly typical to mention the skin color of the soldiers or fine to is doing the plundering sort of what i can find. a comment 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's this 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, him as 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, but since the to discover differential occupied the territory near the french gym

and buddha 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 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 . if you look 50 in the french occupations and children fathered 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 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 the own slow by was sent unprepared time, 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 then became a french women's 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 do some type,

pulled me up to the point in time when i learned that there was an archive coma in clermont, in front of the french archive, i knew nothing at all on each rod on. then i was outraged that i was an honest, familiar timeframe. each box for the console isn't. so the, as i said, i know it certainly existed in the french archives. you can exist to like the guns and all of the children fathered by french soldiers. so dot and get so were archived on the orders of general can asian that i could see from this document on a wholesale also lent her father's name full bath. yet she's never been able to find him. many thousands of women 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 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 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'd have taken the initiative of mine and with that, so i think my mother had the opportunity to earn money from the french can to put in but and 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 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 of this 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 likely 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 court to take action against it. in this respect, there was no systematic registration system, much fossil. it's estimated that between the early summer and full of 1945,

at least 110000 women and girls were raped in berlin and loved many of them multiple times. the, these figures around the estimates this is done using old patient records and registration phones, like those found in the archives of buttons, comple university files from the empress of goose to victoria house. children's hospital, for instance, 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 women would 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 on notice of 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 along the rad soon, no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks of to the was and is the victims 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. 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 hard to point a finger at the allies because very

quickly, well, you can reach on relative izing and off assessing to them and kill clicking breakfast with of the use of rationing and shortages germans longed 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 parliamentary elections in 1949 on the election post as the christian democrat. some c, d u. used to stereotypical images of the enemy to stare up, fees of the red menace. c d u candidate to comrade ida, now it became the 1st chance and the new republic. each realized who wagner got to the occupation status and data at ogden our tied his 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 as or memories, the items 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 face deputy of our 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 to about ended my mother's case. my step father did everything. he could this oppressive a plank got damaged. i can do some 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, officially like a diesel. the many women instead of a conflict with their own relatives afterwards with a much tougher to take them the rape itself. so he's not the con heidi ons. 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. got inch for the sixty's, i mean they 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 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. how data do you have? no business here. no reason to be here,

just to index and leave our mother increase one less. 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 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 sooner destroyed 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. mccook new things that you don't belong to friends and you don't belong to germany. the phone cars 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, a rush play. he was 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 scanned me a little 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 children, but one of right we're 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 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 for it. and it would have put women equal worth, centrally civilian war victims on an equal footing with war disabled soldiers, 6 for the farm in east germany, 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 as wide on either binding with off. 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 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 train a pair of shoes or fluid to come. then a truck it drove in, filled with russian was despondent. they jumped down and conducted a rate on the line good engines, and most of them they drove me out to a field. i fell on me down on the ground, not understanding 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 an obviously talk about it is or done then it

was the other ones turn done to the fun. 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, i'm sitting here thinking now maybe honestly if 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. right to cut it. yeah. yes. i also was afraid of the right guy or that mission, but he never pressured me. i say then even when we were engaged, let's say it's a really long time. yes. the you said davis, my name, i have my husband martin and my mother to think 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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