Its a commonly known fact amongst Western Rightwingers, even many who consider themselves pro Russian that the Red Army raped basically every female in the parts of Germany they occupied regardless of age. Rigorously vetted evidence for this accusation is in fact kind of sparse in comparison to the scale of the claim and the Red Army’s guilt was established more via Western Cold War era literature than from German direct accounts after and during the war. After the USSR was dismantled Western pop historians took the Cold War numbers of rape victims and ran with them, for example British “Historian” Anthony Beevor claimed in his 2002 book “the Fall of Berlin 1945” that the Red Army raped 2 million German women in total and over a 100,000 in Berlin specifically. Since this claim validates Western Moral superiority of over the USSR it quickly gained traction with Western Rightwingers who simultaneously disbelieve the standard kosher narrative about WW2 but very strongly believe in the standard rightoid narrative about the USSR being the evilest country that’s ever existed save Isreal itself. However even a cursory examination of this claim raises a commonsense question, the Red Amry units involved in invading Germany contained about 2 million troops and lots of them were killed or wounded…is it seriously plausible that 2 million troops involved in very heavy fighting and taking serious losses also raked up 2 million rapes? If we examine the Red Army’s own records involving measures taken against soldiers who abused the local population, we see that they are about as numerous as those of the Western Allies. If one accepts the wartime records kept by the relevant Army’s as a better baseline than Western Cold War and Post Cold War literature with very few or sometimes no primary sources than a huge plank of Western Moral Superiority over the East collapses. Of course, the immediate response by the Western Right winger in this case will be “you can’t trust the Red Armys records due to Stalin and Communism and Communist lie about everything”. This objection of course is a philosophical presupposition and not a true argument in itself and it’s a pity Western Right wingers refuse to admit as much. What follows is an examination from Russian Sources about just what can be established in the realm of fact about the Red Army’s German Rape Safari.
The first accounts of the Red Army systematically raping every German female they found goes back to the end of war. For example Goebbels wrote in his diary:
"In front of me lies the order of Marshal Konev to the Soviet troops. In this order, Marshal Konev speaks out against the looting carried out by Soviet soldiers in the eastern German territories. It contains some facts that exactly coincide with our data. The Soviet soldiers seize primarily the stocks of vodka available in the eastern German regions, get insensible, put on civilian clothes, a hat or a top hat and ride bicycles to the east. Konev demands that commanders take the strictest measures against the disintegration of the Soviet troops. He also points out that arson and robbery can be carried out only by order. The characterization he gives to these facts is extremely interesting. It shows that in fact, in the person of Soviet soldiers, we are dealing with steppe scum. This is confirmed by the information about atrocities that came to us from the eastern regions. They really cause horror. They cannot even be reproduced separately. First of all, mention should be made of the horrible documents that came from Upper Silesia. In some villages and towns, all women between the ages of 10 and 70 have been raped. It seems that this is done on orders from above, since in the behavior of the Soviet soldiers one can see an obvious system. Against this we shall now launch a broad campaign at home and abroad. Colonel-General Guderian expressed his readiness to read to the representatives of our and foreign press the well-known appeal of Marshal Zhukov and then to conduct a public interrogation of a number of officers who returned to us from Posen (Poznan) and repeatedly saw with their own eyes the devastation and atrocities committed
Goebbels wasn’t lying, inevitably there were some brutal war crimes committed by the Red Army when they invaded Germany. The question is of scale and if Goebbels exaggerated to help steel German morale. If you are of the opinion that Goebbels would never exaggerate and all German propaganda efforts amounted to transmitting totally self-evident facts with no emphasis on certain points to create a desired reaction, then we have again arrived in the realm of presumptions dictating how we examine data. For example, there are seriously countless reports of German troops committing atrocities in the USSR that the Western Right winger will dismiss in their entirety because as per his presuppositions German troops didn’t ever commit atrocities and Commies always lie. Personally, I too reject the majority of atrocity porn thrown at German troops but I’m also skeptical that Soviet troops were significantly worse behaved than the Western Allies. As for the German Propaganda about the imminent rape hurricane descending on Germany, the following is from a Russian automotive blog…yes I’m serious. An endearing idiosyncrasy of Russian blogging is that historical revisionism and conspiracy can be found on sites dedicated to pet care, fishing, etc etc.
According to the testimony of the Australian war correspondent Osmar White, "Goebbels' propaganda hammered into the heads of the Germans a paranoid fear of the "hordes from the East". As the Red Army approached the outskirts of Berlin, a wave of suicides swept the city. According to some estimates, in May-June 1945, from 30 to 40 thousand Berliners voluntarily passed away.
In 1947, Ralph Keeling published the book "Terrible Harvest. A Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany", which was based on press reports about "atrocities in the Soviet zone of occupation" and the materials of hearings in the American Congress on the actions of the Red Army in post-war Germany.
The rhetoric of the latter is especially revealing: "Bolshevik Mongol and Slavic hordes came from the East, immediately raping women and girls, infecting them with venereal diseases, impregnating them with the future race of Russian-German half-breeds..."
The next notable publications on this topic are the books by the German Erich Kube "The Russians in Berlin, 1945" and the American Cornelius Ryan "The Last Battle: The Storming of Berlin through the Eyes of Eyewitnesses"; both were published in the mid-60s. Here, the age range of the victims increases even in comparison with Goebbels' statements: in the Red Army's offensive zone, "every woman from eight to eighty years old is threatened with rape"
https://www.drive2.ru/c/496574361671566100/?ysclid=md5u1ey4vx391828990
I haven’t read Terrible Harvest but I have read Hell Storm which is a summary of all the previous Red Army atrocity porn but to Hell Storms credit it does at least cover some Western atrocities while still maintaining the over all narrative of Western Allied Moral Superiority. When I first read it I was aware of the Western Allied Terror Bombings of Germany but like many Edgy American Rightoids I thought this was the extent of Western Allied Criminality, but Hell Storm showed this was not the case. I also read Ryans Battle of Berlin book which was interesting enough but looking back its basically pop history and the whole thing with raising the age threshold of rape victims was just thrown in to emphasis the Reds general barbarity without being based on anything concrete. Thats pretty standard with pop history as part of the idea is to make the narrative more “accessible” to laymen by taking some liberties with facts here and there. If Enemy at the Gates was based on true events that the movie doesn’t resemble at all than Ryans work kind of resembles the Battle of Berlin with some outrage porn and riveting “firsthand accounts” thrown in to hook the professional book reviewers and casual layman readers.
The problem with establishing Russian Moral inferiority based on the rape fest is that you have to go off vague firsthand accounts and assume all the Western Allied sourced claims are true and all the Soviet ones about German atrocities in the USSR are false. The following is from a Russian Construction Blog and it’s a long entry about atrocity claims made from both sides…once more some great conspiracy/history stuff can be found in the most unlikely of places on the Russian Internet. This is a long block post but it’s necessary imo to establish that Soviet claims about the brutality meted out by the Germans is in no short supply and sounds identical to the atrocity porn accusations thrown at the Red Army:
September 7, 1941 at a rally in Moscow, an appeal was accepted Soviet women, which stated: “It is impossible to convey in words what the fascist villains do to woman in the areas of the USSR that they temporarily occupy. Their sadism has no limit. These vile cowards drive women, children and the elderly ahead of them to hide from the fire of the Red Army. The victims are raped by them, they rip off breasts, they crush them with cars, tear them up with tanks ... "
In what condition can a woman be brought to that is subjected to such violence, shame and desecration?
Thoughts are paralyzed. Shock. Alien uniforms, alien speech, other people's smells. They are not even perceived as male rapists. These are some monstrous creatures from another world.
They mercilessly destroy all the concepts of chastity, decency, bashfulness in which our women are brought up in. They get to what has always been hidden from prying eyes, the exposure of which has always been considered indecent, which they checked about in the gateways, which is trusted only by the most beloved people or doctors ...
Helplessness, despair, humiliation, fear, disgust, pain - everything is intertwined in one ball, tearing from the inside, destroying human dignity. This ball breaks will, burns the soul, kills the personality. He drinks life ... they tear off clothes ... and there is no way to resist this. This will happen anyway.
I think thousands and thousands of women cursed at such moments nature, by whose will they were born women.
We turn to documents that are more indicative than any Literary description. Documents collected only in 1941.
“... This happened in the apartment of the young teacher Elena K. in broad daylight a group of drunken German officers burst here. At this time, the teacher was engaged in three girls, her students. Closing the door to the key, the bandits ordered Elena K. to undress. The young woman resolutely refused to fulfill this impudent requirement. Then the Nazis tore off her clothes and raped her in front of the children. The girls tried to protect the teacher, but the bastards also brutally abused them.
From the testimony of Lydia N., G. Rostov:
“Yesterday I heard a strong knock on the door. When I went to the door, they beat it with rifle butts, trying to break it down. 5 German Soldiers broke into the apartment. They kicked my father, mother and little brother out of the apartment. After I found my brother's corpse on the staircase. The German soldier threw him off the third floor of our house, as eyewitnesses told me. His head was broken. Mother and father were shot at the entrance of our house. I myself was subjected to group violence. I was unconscious. When I woke up, I heard the hysterical cries of women in neighboring apartments. That evening, all the apartments of our house were surrounded by the Germans. They raped all women. " A terrible document! The fear of this woman is involuntarily transmitted by several mean lines. The blows of the butt of the door. Five monsters. Fear for himself, for those who were taken in an unknown direction: “Why? So that you will not see what will happen? Arrested? Killed? " Nice for vile torture, which deprived of consciousness. A repeatedly reinforced nightmare from the "hysterical cries of women in neighboring apartments", as if the whole house groans. Unreality…
The statement of a resident of the village of Novo-Ivanovka Maria Tarantseva: "Having burst into my house, four German soldiers brutally raped my daughters Vera and Pelagia."
“On the very first evening in the city of Luga, the Nazis caught 8 girls on the streets and raped them.”
“In the Belarusian town of Shatsk, the Nazis gathered all young girls, raped them, and then they kicked them out in the square and forced them to dance. Those who resisted fascist were shot on the spot. Similar violence and abuse of invaders were a widespread mass phenomenon. ”
“On the first day in the village of Basmanovo, the Smolensk region, fascist monsters kicked out more than 200 schoolchildren and schoolgirls who came to the village for harvesting, surrounded them and shot them. They took schoolgirls to their rear “for the gentlemen of the officers”. ” I am powerful and cannot imagine these girls who came to the village of a noisy group of classmates, with their teenage love and experiences, with the inherent carelessness and fun inherent in this age. The girls, who then immediately, at once, saw the bloodied corpses of their boys and, not having time to comprehend, refusing to believe in what had happened, ended up in a hell created by adults.
“On the first day of the Germans arrived in Krasnaya Polyana to Alexander Yakovlevna (Demyanova), two fascists appeared. They saw in the room the daughter of Demyanova - a 14 -year -old nyura - a frail and poor health girl. The German officer grabbed a teenager and raped her in front of his mother. On December 10, the doctor of the local gynecological hospital, having examined the girl, stated that this bandit infected her with syphilis. In a neighboring apartment, fascist cattle raped another 14-year-old girl Tonya I.
On December 9, 1941, the corpse of a Finnish officer in Krasnaya Polyana was found. In the pocket, a collection of female buttons was found - 37 pieces, an account of rape. And in Krasnaya Polyana, he raped Margarita K. and also tore the button from her blouse. "
The dead soldiers often found “trophies” in the form of buttons, stockings, and curls of female hair. They found photographs that captured the scenes of violence, letters and diaries in which they described their “exploits”.
“In letters, the Nazis with cynical frankness and bragging share their adventures. Corporal Felix Kapelsa sends a letter to his friend: “Having fumbled in chests and organizing a good dinner, we began to have fun. The girl was angry, but we also organized it. It doesn’t matter that the whole department ...”
Corporal Georg Pfaler without hesitation writes to his mother (!) In Sappenfeld: “We stayed in a small town for three days ... You can imagine how many we have eaten in three days. And how many chests and cabinets we rummaged, how many small young ladies were spoiled ... our life is now funny, not like in the trenches ...”
In the diary of the murdered chief clinter there is the following entry: “On October 12. Today he took part in cleaning the camp from suspicious. 82 were shot. Among them was Beautiful woman. We, me and Karl, took her to the operating room, she bit and howled. After 40 minutes it was shot. Memory is a few minutes of pleasure ""
With the prisoners who did not have time to get rid of such documents that compromise them, the conversation was short: they took aside and - a bullet to the back of the head.
Woman in military uniform It caused enemies special hatred. She is not only a woman - she is also a soldier fighting with you! And if the prisoners of the Muzhchin soldiers were broken morally and physically barbaric torture, then the soldiers' soldiers-rape. (The Germans raped the girls from the “Young Guard” during the interrogations.
“Two kilometers south of the village of Akimovka (Melitopolishchina) to the car, in which there were two wounded Red Army soldiers and the woman-feldsher accompanying them, the Germans flew. They fired the woman into the sunflower, raped her, and then shot her. At the wounded Red Army soldiers, these animals turned their hands and also shot them ... "
“In the village of Voronki, in Ukraine, the Germans placed 40 wounded Red Army soldiers, prisoners of war and medical sisters in the premises of the former hospital. The nurses were raped and shot, and they set the guards near the wounded ... "
“In Krasnaya Polyana, the wounded fighters and the wounded orderly did not give 4 days of water and 7 days of food, and then drove with salty water. The orderly began to agonize. The fascists raped the dying girl in front of the wounded Red Army men. ”
“The Nazi robbers in one village seized a fifteen -year -old girl and brutally raped her. Sixteen animals tormented this girl. She resisted, she called her mother, she screamed. They giggled her eyes and abandoned her, torn to be torn, thrown into the street ... It was in the Belarusian place Chernin. "
Etc, etc, etc…..Now I am saying all that is true? No of course not. If I had to bet the modest content of my checking account on it, I would even say that Germans as a rule are probably less inclined to excessive violence than East Slavs. Is some of the above maybe a little true? Perhaps, there were some German units like say the Dirlewagner Brigade and Prince Eugin that fought partisans mostly and had a reputation for indiscriminate brutality. Then we have the Germans Baltic and local Auxiliaries that really were savages. But in general, the above is straight propaganda IMO. The Cold War tier right-winger on the other hand will simply call it evidence for Soviet atrocities because its “projection”. Once again, presuppositions are the horses pulling the cart of evidence and if one can’t admit this, he is lying to himself. What I see above is Moscow doing in 1941 what Berlin did in 1945, leveraging atrocity porn propaganda to stiffen the resolve of the defenders. Just like how Berlin took some real cases of Churkas from Tajikistan raping and massacring some East German villages they passed through and turned this into a rape title wave in 1945 in 1941 Moscow took the brutality of some Baltoid Axillaries or German anti partisan Units and turned it into a German Rape Fest in the USSR.
So besides German 1945 propaganda that has a grain of truth which was exaggerated to stiffen resolve, just like the Soviets did 1941 where does the original source of the mass Red Army rape originate besides the eyewitness accounts which are identical to soviet accounts from 1941? From the Russian War Blog Top War:
In 1954, the book "A Woman in Berlin" was published in the United States. Its author is considered to be journalist Martha Hiller. In 2003, "A Woman in Berlin" was republished in many countries, and the Western media eagerly picked up the theme of "raped Germany". A few years later, the film "Nameless" was shot based on this book. After that, E. Beevor's work "The Fall of Berlin" was received by liberal publications with a bang. The ground was already prepared.
https://topwar.ru/83438-kak-sozdali-chernyy-mif-o-iznasilovannoy-germanii.html?ysclid=md627m42u2154306814
From Martha Hillers wiki:
So far from German women going all “me too” when the book was published in 1954 they objected to its claims and Hillers didn’t bother with having another addition published while she was alive. Also, if all the local Germans “knew” about this rape fest why did Hillers publish the first addition anonymously in the 1st place? Well probably because she had a hunch it would be badly received. Some Amazon Reviews:
So, the first bombshell tell all by someone that was there was a female journalists rape fantasy novel. After that a “German” femminist named Barbara Johr crunched some numbers and discovered that a bunch of modern East Germans are the descendants of rape babies. From Johrs wiki:
Her methodology was as follows:
Where do these figures come from? In 1945, the state apparatus of Nazi Germany was defeated, there was no one to keep statistics of crimes. Therefore, it is possible to calculate the number of rapes committed by Soviet servicemen in East Germany only where there are islands of this state apparatus, that is, in hospitals. Johr analyzed the records of only two German hospitals, where, according to the German practice at that time, deliveries were also carried out. At the same time, the nationality of the child's father was mandatory, as well as whether the child was conceived as a result of rape.
To find out the total number of raped women in East Germany, Johr used extrapolation. She took data from Berlin hospitals on the number of children born in them for the period from September 1945 to August 1946. There were 23 thousand such children. The national composition according to the fathers is only for one hospital - "Empress Augusta Victoria". For five percent of the children, the nationality of the father was indicated as "Russian". Extrapolating this data to all 23,000 infants, Barbara Johr recognized 1150 as the fruits of Russian soldiers' violence.
The probability of conception in the case of rape was estimated by the researcher at 20 percent. 90 percent of those who became pregnant, according to Johr, had an abortion. Using this data (1150:0.2:0.1), Johr multiplied 1150 by 50 and got 57-58 thousand raped women of childbearing age (capable of conceiving). Which amounted to 9.5 percent of all Berlin women in this age. She further extrapolated that 9.5 percent to women beyond childbearing age — teenage girls such as 12-year-old Johanna Renner, the future wife of Chancellor Kohl, who was raped by Soviet soldiers in 1945. Old women under the age of 80 were added to them. The data were then extended to the entire female population over the age of eight in Soviet-occupied East Germany. Taking 9.5 percent of all of them, they got the notorious two million.
https://life.ru/p/1115960?ysclid=md68469ba7138862380
If that methodology passes muster with someone than I guess they are on the “believe all women train” and well…retarded. Taking questionable claims from German women at face value from 1 Berlin hospital and extrapolating that to all of East Germany is not serious at all.
So the Yentas work and Hillers rape fantasy combined with the original German 1945 atrocity porn which was repeated throughout the cold war in books like Cornelious Ryans “the Last Battle” brings us to Beevors “the Fall of Berlin” in 2002. Top War on the Fall of Berlin:
In 2002, Anthony Beevor's book "The Fall of Berlin" was published, in which the author cited the 2 million in Germany and 1 hundred thousand in Berlin, without paying attention to its criticism. According to Beevor, he found reports in the Russian state archives "on the epidemic of sexual violence in Germany." These reports were sent by NKVD officers to Lavrenty Beria at the end of 1944. "They were handed over to Stalin," Beevor says. "You can see from the marks whether they were read or not. They report mass rapes in East Prussia and how German women tried to kill themselves and their children to escape this fate."
Beevor's work cites the following data: "According to the estimates of the two main Berlin hospitals, the number of victims of rape by Soviet soldiers ranges from ninety-five to one hundred and thirty thousand people. One doctor concluded that in Berlin alone, about 100,000 women were raped. Moreover, about ten thousand of them died mainly as a result of suicide. The number of deaths throughout East Germany is probably much higher when one considers the 1,400,000 rapes in East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia. It appears that about two million German women were raped, many (if not most) of whom suffered this humiliation several times."
That is, we see the opinion of "one doctor"; the sources were described by the phrases "apparently", "if" and "appears". In 2004, Anthony Beevor's book "The Fall of Berlin" was published in Russia and became a "source" for numerous anti-Soviets who picked up and spread the myth of "Soviet soldiers-rapists."
Beevor’s sourcing is ridiculous and obviously is accepting the jewess’s numbers at face value.. “The hospital says” “one doctor says” “yeah I mean it looks like”. For real Respected Readers, all we have to go off of if we are trying to be serious here are eyewitness accounts which can range from female fantasy Novels like Hillers work to convincing enough but for every one account from Germany I can fire back one from the USSR. The thing is, as I’ve already mentioned is that no account from Soviet sources is admissible to the Western Anti Soviet a priori, unless of course it’s someone like Solzhenitsyn. So, what exactly do the official Soviet Documents say?
Rape of German women by soldiers of the Red Army took place.
From the report of the military prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front, Major General of Justice L. Yachenin to the Military Council of the front on the situation in the front zone of May 2, 1945:
"In relation to the German population... Of course, a significant turning point has been reached. The facts of aimless and unjustified shootings of Germans, looting and rape of German women have significantly decreased, nevertheless... A number of such cases have still been recorded."
In the report of the Military Prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front on the implementation of the directive of the General Command Headquarters No 11072 and the Military Council of the 1st Belorussian Front No 00384 on the change in the attitude towards the German population as of May 5, 1945, the figures of crimes committed by the servicemen of the seven armies of the front in the period from April 22 to May 5 are given: "The total number of atrocities committed by military personnel against the local population, recorded in these 7 armies, 124, of which: rapes of German women - 72, robberies - 38, murders - 3, other illegal actions - 11."
That is, 72 rapes were recorded in the two most difficult weeks in a territory where about a million soldiers are located.
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Then we have Stalin’s directives to the Red Army involved in attacking Germany:
On April 20, 1945, the Directive of the Supreme Command Headquarters was issued to the commanders of the troops and members of the military councils of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts No 11072 on changing the attitude towards German prisoners of war and the civilian population:
"1. Demand a change in the attitude towards the Germans, both prisoners of war and civilians. Treat the Germans better. Cruel treatment of the Germans causes them fear and forces them to resist stubbornly, not surrendering. The civilian population, fearing revenge, organizes itself into gangs. Such a situation is disadvantageous to us. A more humane attitude towards the Germans will make it easier for us to conduct combat operations on their territory and will undoubtedly reduce the obstinacy of the Germans in defense.
2. In the regions of Germany to the west of the line of the mouth of the Oder River, Fürstenberg, then the Neisse River (to the west), German administrations are to be created, and German burgomasters are to be appointed in the cities. Rank-and-file members of the National Socialist Party, if they are loyal to the Red Army, are not to be touched, but only the leaders are to be detained if they have not managed to escape.
3. Improving the attitude towards the Germans should not lead to a decrease in vigilance and fraternity with the Germans.
Headquarters of the Supreme Command - J. Stalin"
https://pikabu.ru/story/mif_shestoy_dva_milliona_iznasilovannyikh_nemok_6700705?ysclid=md67v5kl74411853027
Die Hard Anti Soviet Rightoids will wave away all the above and claim that the documents are just busy work that reflect absolutely nothing and either there was a secret policy where Soviet Troops were encouraged to rape everyone while simultaneously fighting, or that the Red Amry just did not discourage or punish rape. This is kind of retarded because if every Soviet Tanker and Riflemen in Germany stopped to rape every 80 year old women multiple times than East Germany just wouldn’t have fallen or presumably it would have fallen much quicker if rape breaks weren’t constantly happening. For examples Romans, Vikings, Ottomans, Arabs etc would rape all the women AFTER the fighting ended. As a matter of fact, getting to ravage the girls motivated the troops to win. Stopping to rape every grannie and pre-pubescent girl while the enemy is still in the field is literally deadly for the Army engaged in it AND STALIN WANTED TO RAPIDLY TAKE AS MUCH OF GERMANY AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. When you factor just plain ass common sense the above examples of the Red Army trying to keep the raping and pillaging to a manageable minimum makes sense…way more sense than the Rightoid claims that the Red Army secretly or tacitly encouraged rape while the fighting was still happening. Did the Red Army rape a lot of German women during the war in Germany? If tens of thousands is a lot than sure but the Western Allies were probably at over 10 thousand themselves. Did they rape a bunch immediately after the war? IDK but definitively not millions by any means whatsoever as after the war soldiers could get laid in exchange for half a potato, a few cigarettes or a chocolate bar and the Western Allies were notorious for buying sex this way in particular. A Russian Women’s blog about Family Life describes the situation in the immediate year after the war like this:
According to official data, in just one year - from 1945 to 1946 - the tribunals convicted about 4 thousand servicemen for violence against Women. An eyewitness to those events, writer Leonid Rabichev, later recalled that, in particular, Marshal Ivan Konev very simply solved the problem of violence against German women in Silesia. Once, 40 soldiers and officers were shot for rape right in front of the ranks. Not a single other such case was recorded there.
https://woman.rambler.ru/other/41533927-kak-marshal-konev-reshil-problemu-nasiliya-nad-zhenschinami-v-okupirovannoy-germanii/?ysclid=md69l0nunw639276153
Let’s go ahead and say that for every Red Army soldier who was punished for rape that 20 were not punished because of Communism, Stalin, the jews, blah blah. I think that’s a fair ratio to concede to the diehard believers in Western Moral superiority over the USSR. If we accept my ratio, we have 80,000 cases of rape from Soviet troops
Well, here is some recent research into American behavior in occupied Germany. About the work of an edgy German Researcher named Miriam Gebhardt:
The work, which came out in German on Monday, takes a closer look at the rape of German women by all four victorious powers at the end of World War II. In particular, though, her views on the behavior of American GIs are likely to raise eyebrows. Gebhardt believes that members of the US military raped as many as 190,000 German women by the time West Germany regained sovereignty in 1955, with most of the assaults taking place in the months immediately following the US invasion of Nazi Germany.
The author bases her claims in large part on reports kept by Bavarian priests in the summer of 1945. The Archbishop of Munich and Freising had asked Catholic clergy to keep records on the allied advance and the Archdiocese published excerpts from its archive a few years ago.
Michael Merxmüller, a priest in the village of Ramsau near Berchtesgaden, wrote on July 20, 1945, for example: "Eight girls and women raped, some of them in front of their parents."
Father Andreas Weingand, from Haag an der Amper, a tiny village located just north of where the Munich airport is today, wrote on July 25, 1945: "The saddest event during the advance were three rapes, one on a married woman, one on a single woman and one on a spotless girl of 16-and-a-half. They were committed by heavily drunken Americans."
Father Alois Schiml from Moosburg wrote on Aug. 1, 1945: "By order of the military government, a list of all residents and their ages must be nailed to the door of each house. The results of this decree are not difficult to imagine. ... Seventeen girls or women ... were brought to the hospital, having been sexually abused once or several times."
The youngest victim mentioned in the reports is a seven-year-old child. The oldest, a woman of 69.
Uh oh if Americans raped 190,000 with the majority being right after the war ended and the Soviets raped 80k by the end of 1946 than maybe the Americans were the real rapist all along. How did Gebhardt arrive at these numbers?
The total is not the result of deep research in archives across the country. Rather, it is an extrapolation. Gebhardt makes the assumption that 5 percent of the "war children" born to unmarried women in West Germany and West Berlin by the mid-1950s were the product of rape. That makes for a total of 1,900 children of American fathers. Gebhardt further assumes that on average, there are 100 incidents of rape for each birth. The result she arrives at is thus 190,000 victims.
Lol okay so the number is BS arrived at through very creative extrapolation just like with the 2 million rapes attributed to the Red Army. From the same article:
Another estimate, stemming from US criminology professor Robert Lilly, who examined rape cases prosecuted by American military courts, arrived at a number of 11,000 serious sexual assaults committed by November, 1945 -- a disgusting number in its own right
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/book-claims-us-soldiers-raped-190-000-german-women-post-wwii-a-1021298.html
In conclusion this 2 million number for raped German Women is total BS based on ridiculous extrapolations by an aggrieved jewess. If we accept that as valid we can do the exact same for Western Allied soldiers as has actually been attempted and should the Global Powers That Be ever decide that they need to demonize the Western Allies as they did the USSR after the cold war you better believe the same image of the drunken savage GI will be forthcoming just like happened with the Red Army. The only way to seriously get at the truth about who was doing the most raping is to count and analyze individual cases and cases exists for the Western Allies as is seen above, the Germans as I showed earlier, and the Red Army which I haven’t reproduced in this post because all my readers I’m assuming have read Hell Storm and countless blog posts about the evils of the Red Army. My general impression is that probably the Red Army did rape more German Women than the Western Allies and the Western Allies raped more German Women than Soviet Women who were raped by Germans. But the 2 million number is total BS. If we go ahead and say that the 4k Soviet Troops sentenced for rape is an undercount by 100 times that still doesn’t get us anywhere near 2 million. If the Americans had 11k rapes under their belt by November 1946 like Spiegel implies above than probably the Reds had 3or4 times as many. Furthermore, just like how most the rapes on the Western Allied end were committed by Colonial Troops and Blacks, in the Red Army it was mostly Churkas not Russians. Needless to say, most of the crimes conducted by 3rd Reich Forces in the USSR were the work of Baltoids, Ukrainians etc. There has been absolutely no serious scientific work done to establish how many German Women were raped by who and probably it’s too late to do so. The jewess Johrs Talmudic number conjuring and Hillers rape fantasy novel don’t count so literally all we have are the individual stories and maybe AI will count and sort which ones are legit one day. All we can do until than is just go where our individual a priori biases lead the evidence for us. In my case as a Russophile I’m throwing out the jews 2 million number for raped German women and just multiplying the American number 3or4 times to account for the Red Army’s generally more brutal nature and less clingy approach to life, whether those of its own members or the enemies. Of course, it wasn’t the Reds who wiped most German cities off the map with bombs but when it comes to stuff like interpersonal brutalization the Reds were more capable than say Americans or Brits. The war was mostly fought on Soviet Soil and the scale of the slaughter on the Eastern Front was so much bigger that we should expect more brutalizing of civilians on both ends. I mean any Western die hard anti Soviet Right Wingers that claim German troops treated Soviet Civilians as well as say French of Belgian Civilians is lying to themselves, as they so often do.
I’ve utterly failed to shorten up my posting and for that I apologize and sincerely thank like always anyone who read this to the end. Before ending I just want to share 2 more screen grabs.
So, the Western Allies bombing campaign killed somewhere between a bit more and way more German civilians than the Soviets War Crimes did both during and after the war. Furthermore, most German civilians who were murdered in Eastern Europe were murdered by Poles, Czechs, etc if this AI is correct. That is the Eastern Europeans who modern anti Soviet/anti Russian Right Wingers love the most killed more German Civilians during the war than the Soviets. Oh, the irony and reality being dumber than fiction as it often is with Eastern European issues.
Livci appreciated the post its near to me. My foster mom was born 1946 in east Berlin. Her mom was a disaster in her telling, alcohol abuse and serial abusive male presence. I only met her once, she was a shell.
Per the family lore her biological father was a Slav but her mom eventually moved to west Berlin and took up with a series of Americans. I have no idea if that is accurate she looks more German than anything.
Regardless, the war obliterated a whole generation of Germans and Russians in spirit. In many ways the eastern Germans are still kinda German the west Germans are mostly discount Americans. Its all sad.
By the way, there is also a book The Virtous Wehrmacht by D.Harrisville, based on letters of German soldiers with many descriptions of atrocities in the East. I don't know how to convince Western rightwingers, but if you shoot around 3000 civilians (among them 287 highschoolers) in retribution for 10 dead and 26 wounded Germans (Kragujevac massacre 1941), then sure as hell you believe your enemy is subhuman.