There were instances of mass-suicide by poison. Also in the UK, the French and the American zone of occupation, there was mass rape, sometimes for several days.īerlin women, it seems, were short of food, but well provided with poison. The terrible deeds played out not only in the areas where Red Army soldiers often roamed. 'Īs a former slogan sums up: 'The Americans took six years to fight down the German soldiers to have a German woman, it took a day and a table of chocolate.' When the column was gone, we found my wife under a pile of straw, where they had fled in fear. After being locked up in a stable and raped the next morning five clock at gunpoint again.
My wife was towed by a Russian in the barn and also raped. German historian Miriam Gebhardt writes about a German man saying, 'My niece was raped by fourteen Russian officers in the next room. The European women of those nations that had been allies of Nazi Germany were targeted too. They certainly behaved like animals, but they had official sanction. However, unfortunately, it must be said that many rapists, were American soldiers. Rapists were mainly Red Army soldiers, many of them - non-white soldiers from the Asian republics of the Soviet Union. These mass rapes against German women were one of the greatest crimes against women throughout history.
