Beschreibung
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which continued long after the hostilities had ended.
Discussion in recent years of the rape of German women committed at the end of the war has focused almost exclusively on the crimes committed by Soviet soldiers, but Gebhardt shows that this picture is misleading. Crimes were committed as much by the Western Allies American, French and British as by the members of the Red Army. Nor was the suffering limited to the immediate aftermath of the war. Gebhardt powerfully recounts how raped women continued to be the victims of doctors, who arbitrarily granted or refused abortions, welfare workers, who put pregnant women in homes, and wider society, which even today prefers to ignore these crimes.
Crimes Unspoken is the first historical account to expose the true extent of sexual violence in Germany at the end of the war, offering valuable new insight into a key period of 20th century history.
Autorenportrait
Miriam Gebhardt is an historian and journalist who teaches at the University of Konstanz.
Inhalt
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Seventy years too late
Wrong victims?
How many were affected
Sexual aggression against men
A word about method
Chapter 2 Berlin and the East chronicle of a calamity foretold
The great fear
The Red Army comes
Berlin
One year on
Extracts from police reports
A different perspective
Chapter 3 South Germany who will protect us from the Americans?
No ones time
Moderate indignation
A feeling of great insecurity among our soldiers
Discussion
A sexual conquest of Europe?
Unbroken assertion of power by the occupiers
Parallels and differences
Chapter 4 Pregnant, sick, ostracized approaches to the victims
Victims twice over
Fraternization
The abortion problem
No ones children
The other victims are also taken care of
First the French, then the public authorities
I love this child as much as the others
Chapter 5 The long shadow
The effects of the experience of violence
The myth of female invulnerability
Anonymous and the censorship of memory
Duties of loyalty
First feminist protests
Helke Sanders BeFreier and the German victim debate
The past today
Notes
Sources and selected literature
Index
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