Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War By Miriam Gebhardt
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Das hoffentlich in der Zukunft mit hnlich hochwertigen Forschungsarbeiten weiter erschlossen wird Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War One of the best books I ve read this year and best works of scholarship so far The author gives several precise and detailed descriptions of the rape phenomenon that are not for the faint of heart The title of the book is pretty self explanatory so before reading you know what you re getting yourself into Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War The world has witnessed the completion of the second world war in 1945 bringing the new hope for the European to restart as nations once again But for Germany and the German women it was the beginning of another devastation they ve never seen in their wildest imagination The notorious campaign and the dictatorship of Hitlar are gone.
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Rather it was frequent Miriam Gebhardt brought in her book the epic story of these German women just after the second world war was over Her greatly written and well researched book Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War reminds us once again how the German women were victimized by the Allied force namely Americans on the one side and the Russians from others particularly Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Mich hat die Zeit um den zweiten Weltkrieg schon immer interessiert und da ich mehr in diese Richtung lesen wollte.
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Than seventy years later. PDF Crimes unspoken We historians neatly talk of a gap in research when wefind very little reliable information about a topic But thehistorians demand for full accountability is not a sufficientargument for me There must be importantreasons for descending into such a dark valley. Kindle Crimes unspoken crossword One such reason could be the demand for fairtreatment The legitimacy of the recollection of theevents that took place after the arrival of the Allies isstill questioned There are still voices that say that theinvestigation of the mass rape of German women isinevitably designed to make up for the crimes committedagainst victims of German aggression and hence torelativize the Holocaust. Crimes unspoken miriam gebhardt 1 Others contest the relevance ofthe subject itself.
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Harrowing Gebhardt s book Crimes Unspoken in the translation I read is about the tens of thousands of German women raped by Allied British French and American soldiers during WW2 and the occupation Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Takes into account the latest scholarship on the subject including a whole range of German scholars many of whom I don t believe have been published in English previously as well as a current feminist perspective arguably making it the definitive work on the subject as of today What s new here is that it emphasises rapes committed in the Allied occupied zone as much as the well known rapes of German women in the Soviet zone arguing that the former were much prevalent than previously thought It s also quite heavy on the anecdotes relating what must be tens if not hundreds of individual cases. What are the weirdest crimes I can t really find much fault with it other than perhaps how some of the analysis of the abstract aspects such as the social or cultural impact can feel a bit overwrought Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Kirjan selv n kohderyhm n ovat saksalaiset mutta siit hy tyv t mielest ni kaikki kansallisuudesta riippumatta Mielsin raiskaukset ik v ksi ja kamalaksi osaksi sodank ynti joka nyt kuitenkin vain valitettavasti kuuluu muihin hirveyksiin mutta kirjoittaja kyseenalaisti t m n k sityksen ja liitti joukkoraiskauksen intersektionaalisuuden hengess my s vallitsevan kulttuurin ja yhteiskunnallisten olojen yms aiheuttamaksi. Crimes unspokenw ww2 Huomasin my s miten paljon samankaltaisia teemoja ja uhkakuvia itse tunnistin suomalaisena erityisesti puna armeijaan liittyen Puna armeijaa k sittelev osuus ei siis tullut itselleni yll tyksen mutta ranskalaisten ja jenkkien osuus kielt m tt yll tti tiesin ett totta kai hyviksetkin tai itsens hyviksiksi mielt v t ovat kautta aikojen syyllistyneet sotarikoksiin siin miss muutkin mutta en olisi ehk koskaan ymm rt nyt ongelmien laajuutta Saksan eri miehitysvy hykkeill. Book Crimes unspoken band Ehdottomasti teos jonka jokaisen olisi hyv lukea Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Sehr interessante und vielschichtige Auseinandersetzung mit einem komplexen und erstaunlicherweise bisher wenig beachteten Thema der Kriegs und Nachkriegsgeschichte Die Autorin erarbeitet sich das Thema logisch und nachvollziehbar auch wenn die konkreten Zahlen sicherlich nie verifiziert werden k nnen da das Thema zu sehr tabubehaftet und in der m nnlichen Wahrnehmung h ufig als nicht erw hnenswert charakterisiert wurde Gebhardt beleuchtet zahlreiche Aspekte der Nachkriegszeit und der Massenvergewaltigungen die dem Leser bisher unbekannt waren H ufig fand ich mich mit meinen eigenen stereotypen Vorstellungen und Wahrnehmungen der historischen Ereignisse konfrontiert und musste mich von den tats chlich belegbaren Umst nden eines Besseren belehren lassen Eine wirklich lesenswerte Aufarbeitung des Themas widely written in history as well To the world Germany is now nothing but a defeated nation as deserved This how the second world war history gets ended But what was untold is that the entrance of the Allied force in Germany was responsible for approximately 1 million rapes and sexual violence in Germany at the end of the war The German women were highly terrified watching the Allied force not came to liberate them but brought with them a new threat ultimately ruined them for lifetime The world saw no mercy for the women in the German streets houses offices parks and it went on as if never ends To escape from such horror husbands killed their wives mothers killed their child daughters attempted suicide missions the families committed self destruction and for rest of them it was the kingdom of terror life threatening violence Even very young Anna. Crimes unspokenp ppp K a 12 years girl was not left alone of being rapped After 5 months when she was discharged from hospital her mother was no longer living as she discovered herself in the scarcity of food already resulted the death of her whole family as well She later described how she being a young girl fought the nightmare It was the most terrible time for me because I had to bury my brothers and sisters and my father on my own The story of Anna was not the only incident in German women s life due to the appearance of the Allied force in their land war dieses Buch einfach ein Muss f r mich Besonders da das Thema Vergewaltigung in der Besatzungszeit bis heute nicht wirklich anerkannt wird und die Frauen daher auch nicht als Opfer gelten. EPub Crimes unspoken synonym Das Thema Vergewaltigung wird auch in der heutigen Zeit meiner Meinung nach zu oft derart behandelt dass die Frauen nicht immer als Opfer angesehen werden Man h rt immer wieder dass es nicht ausreichend Beweise gab dass es kein einvernehmlicher Sex war oder dass die Frau es ja so gewollt habeDiese Einstellung war nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg aber auch schon w hrenddessen noch extermer in den K pfen verankert Ich war schockiert wie mit den Opfern umgesprungen wurde Sie bekamen kaum Hilfe die T ter wurden oft gesch tzt Und wenn ein Kind unterwegs war und die Frau es abtreiben wollte wurde dies meistens verweigert Ich bin kein Freund von Abtreibungen nicht falsch verstehen Aber wenn eine Frau Opfer einer Gewalttat wurde da kann ich verstehen dass sie das dadurch entstandene Kind vielleicht nicht lieben kann und es sie immer wieder daran erinnert was ihr angetan worden ist. Kindle Crimes unspoken words Was ich nicht verstehen kann ist wie man denken kann dass eine Frau eine Vergewaltigung will Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen dass jemand das wirklich wollen w rde Ganz egal was die deutsche Armee getan hat nichts rechtfertig was die Besatzer den Frauen in der Besatzungszeit angetan worden ist. Crimes unspoken book Wie ihr vielleicht merkt f llt es mir schwer die richtigen Worte zu finden Ich finde es einfach grausam was so vielen Frauen angetan worden ist die genaue Zahl weiss bis heute niemand und ich denke daran wird sich auch in Zukunft nichts ndern und wie die Beh rden etc damit umgegangen sind und es noch immer tun F r mich spielt es keine Rolle welcher Nationalit t eine Frau angeh rt und was andere Angeh rige des Landes eines Vergewaltigungsopfers getan hat diese Person hat es nicht verdient derart erniedrigt und gedem tigt zu werden Ich hoffe sehr dass sich in Zukunft die Einstellung zu dem Thema ndert denn das ist dringend n tig Auch wenn man die Vergangenheit nicht mehr ndern kann man kann f r die Zukunft dazulernen Noch kurz zum Schreibstil Dieser war zwar soweit in Ordnung doch die Autorin hat sehr viele verschachtelte und zum Teil lange S tze geschrieben Durch das schwierige Thema fand ich es pers nlich anstrengend dadurch dem Inhalt folgen zu k nnen Das fand ich sehr schade Einfachere S tze mit dem gleichen Inhalt h tte dem Buch bestimmt gut getan und es h tte sich etwas leichter lesen lassen. Is stealing a book a crime Alles in allem bekommt das Buch trotz dem etwas anstrengenden Schreibstil von mir f nf volle Sterne Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War 1 Deutsche Rezension2 English Review 1 Deutsche RezensionDies war ein sehr interessantes und empfehlenswertes Buch ber einen meist ignorierten Teil des Zweiten Weltkrieges und seine Folgen Vergewaltigungen deutscher Freuen durch alliierte Soldaten und nicht nur Sowjets sondern auch Briten Amerikaner und Kanadier. EBook Crimes unspoken crossword Ich sag es gleich man kann sich ber die Zahlen der Autorin streiten wie es andere taten aber es ist korrekt dass die Kriegsverbrechen der Alliierten seit Jahrzehnten meist ignoriert oder heruntergespielt wurden und besonders wenn Deutsche dar ber reden kommt oft das die wollen nur relativieren Argument kein Ahnung wie man ein Verbrechen relativieren kann aber scheinbar hat es meistens funktioniert. Crimes unspokenr review Nun bei der Autorin hat es nicht geklappt und das Buch scheint auch nicht mit dem Aufrechnen anzufangen sondern behandelt das Thema mit Anstand und als was es ist ein Verbrechen und schert sich nicht darum es einfach mit Rache zu erkl ren denn das w rde bei den amerikanischen und kanadischen Truppen nicht funktionieren da sie nicht direkt von deutschen Truppen in ihrem Land angegriffen wurden Allerdings tut sie das von einem starken Standpunkt der Geschlechterstudien aus was mich verstehen l sst warum einige sich ber den Feministenstandpunkt beschwerten Aber ich denke sie hat einen Punkt wenn sie sagt dass die starken patriarchalen Strukturen ein Grund daf r waren warum so viele Vergewaltigungsopfer in Deutschland selbst nach Jahrzehnten nichts gesagt haben nat rlich war da auch das Problem dass f r die ersten 10 Jahre nach dem Krieg kein Deutscher einen alliierten Soldaten wegen irgendetwas anklagen konnte Was nat rlich Ungl ck garantiert. Crime et chatiment partie 2 Man sollte sich aber nichts vormachen das Buch besch ftigt sich mit hartem Stoff was schon im ersten Viertel klar ist auch wenn es haupts chlich von den Sowjets redet Und es war interessant wie in deutscher Anti Sowjet Propaganda die Soldaten oft schlicht als Mongolen oder Asiaten wahrgenommen wurden was mich an hnliche Kommentare von Amerikanern dieser Zeit erinnert wenn sie die Sowjetunion als brutale halb asiatische Nation und die Russen als essential asiatisch in ihrer Denkweise dargestellt haben. Crimes unspokenz zeitung Das Buch hatte eine interessante Sichtweise auf die Vergewaltigungen von damals darin wie sie auf den Ver nderungen in den Geschlechterbeziehungen der Zeit fu ten Und ich muss sagen dass die Aussagen bez glich amerikanischer Stereotypen ber europ ische Frauen sich f r mich vertraut anh ren kurz sie sind leicht zu haben. Crimes Unspoken kindle store Und so sehr ich dieses Buch auch mag ich muss ehrlich sein und sagen dass beim Anflug auf das vierte Kapitel ich anfing auf das Buch und Autorin w tend zu werden aus dem gleichen Grund weshalb ich jedes Mal w tend werde wenn jemand mit dem sie wir haben 6 Millionen Juden get tet Denn f r gew hnlich meint das und h rt sich f r mich so an dass nur j dische Opfer z hlen und niemand sonst als wenn andere h chstens Zweitklassige w ren und nicht wirklich erw hnenswert Und seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war es im Grunde dasselbe mit den Vergewaltigungsf llen Scheinbar ist es nur erw hnenswert in unserer Zeit wenn es Sowjets und Deutsche tun aber die westlichen L nder Wen juckt s ist scheinbar das Motto Also hat man eine weitere Opfergruppe welche kaum erw hnt werden und nichts daf r bekommen hat die vergewaltigten Frauen haben kaum Wiedergutmachung erhalten also kein Wunder wenn einige Leute wie ich von auserw hlten Opfern sprechen Zum Gl ck war dass alles nur kurz im Buch und das Buch ging danach schnell voran nach der zweiten H lfte als es bei der Zeit nach dem Krieg war und wie die deutsche Gesellschaft mit den vergewaltigten Frauen umging. Kindle Crimes unspoken crossword Im letzten Viertel hatte ich kurz den Verdacht die Autorin w rde mit dem ganzen ihr habt angefangen loslegen was noch so viele tun da sie Deutschen grunds tzlich mistrauen wenn es um den Krieg geht Aber sie hat Recht wenn sie sagt dass ihr habt angefangen keine Erkl rung oder Entschuldigung ist besonders wenn man die Kriegsverbrechen der USA und Kanada rechtfertigen will denn aus meiner Sicht k nnte man demnach auch Naziverbrechen gegen die westeurop ischen Imperialisten rechtfertigen Denn immerhin sie waren solch wichtige Ziele da die Eroberung von Belgien den Niederlanden Frankreich und Gro britannien einem auch die Kontrolle ber deren Kolonien einbringen w rde was im Falle Frankreichs auch gesehen ist und mit den Holl ndern nun die Japaner haben sich ihre Gebiete unter den Nagel gerissen Und man baut solche Imperien nicht auf indem man nett ist und Ich denke die Geschichte S d und S dostasiens sowie weite Teile Afrikas legen Zeugnis daf r ab wie unerw nscht diese L nder waren Und glaubt mir es gibt gute Gr nde warum Hitler mehrere europ ische L nder im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion hatte Aber darum geht es jetzt nicht. PDF Crimes unspoken band Alles in alles ist dies ein sehr empfehlenswertes Buch aber ich bin sicher dass Leute die es nicht m gen an Alliierte Kriegsverbrechen erinnert zu werden oder alle Deutschen unter dem Generalsverdacht haben versteckte Faschisten zu sein w rden dieses Buch nicht m gen Zum Gl ck geh re ich nicht zu diesen Leuten und so konnte ich es genie en Nur das Ende war etwas zu schnell f r meinen Geschmack 2 English ReviewThis was a really interesting and recommendable book about a mostly ignored part of World War II and its aftermath the rape of German women by Allied soldiers and not just Soviet soldiers but also British American and Canadian ones. Crimes unspoken book I am going to say right away that you can argue with the numbers the author uses as others have but it is correct that war crimes of the western allied forces have been largely ignored or downplayed over the decades and especially when Germans point it out there is often the they just want to relativize line of argument no idea how you can relativize a crime but apparently it worked most of the time. Crimes unspoken miriam gebhardt Well it did not work with this author and the book doesn t seem to be going into the counting game treating the subject with dignity and as what it is a crime and it does not care to explain it as simple revenge since that would not work with the American and Canadian troops as they were not directly attacked by German forces in their nation However she does it from a strong gender study perspective that makes me understand why some reviewers complained about her feminist viewpoint But I think she has a point when she states that the strong patriarchal structures were a reason as to why so many rape victims in Germany never reported what happened to them even after decades of course there was also the problem that for the first 10 years after the war no German could accuse an Allied soldier of anything This is basically a receipt for disaster. Crime books for adults Now make no mistake about it this book deals with heavy stuff as is obvious in the first quarter already even though it mostly focused on the Soviets And it was interesting how in the German Anti Soviet Propaganda the soldiers were often perceived a simply Mongols or Asians which reminded me of similar statements by the Americans of the time when they considered the Soviet Union a brutal semi Asian nation and the Russians essentially oriental in their thinking. Crimes unspokenz za The book had an interesting take on the rapes back then in how they were rooted in the shifts in gender relations at the times And I must say that the statements about American stereotypes of European women sound familiar to my ears even today in short they are easy to have. Kindle Crimes unspoken And as much as I like the book I have to be honest and tell you that when approaching the fourth chapter I got angry at the book and author for the same reason I get angry when every time someone comes with they we killed 6 million Jews You see usually that is it and for me it says that only those victims who were Jewish count and no one else as if they are at best second class people not really worth mentioning And since World War II it was basically the same concept with the rape cases It apparently only counts as worth mentioning in our times when Soviets and Germans raped but the western countries Who cares is apparently the motto Adding another group of war victims who are barely mentioned and did not get anything in return the raped women got barely any compensation so no wonder if some people me included speak of chosen victims Luckily that was only a short episode for me here and the book progressed really fast shortly after the start of the second half I was at the time after the war and how the German society dealt with the raped women. Epub crimes unspoken rules vk Towards the last quarter I shortly suspected the author would go into the you started it routine that so many still use because they basically mistrust German people when it comes to the war But she is correct in that the you started it statement is no explanation or excuse especially when you use it to justify US and Canadian war crimes because in my mind then you could in theory justify Nazi crimes against West European imperialists as well After all they were such valued targets because by conquering Belgium the Netherlands France and Great Britain you could also gain control over their colonies as in the case of France they did and with the Dutch well the Japanese got their territories And you do not build such empires by being nice about it and I think the history of South and Southeast Asia as well as many parts of Africa pay testimony to how disliked those countries were And trust me there is good reason why Hitler had several European nations allied in the war against the Soviet Union But that is neither here nor there now. Crimes Unspoken ebooks online All in all this was a very recommendable book but I am sure people who do not like to be reminded of Allied war crimes or have Germans under general suspicion of being covert fascists will not like this book Thankfully I am not one of those people and so I could enjoy it Only the ending was a tad too fast for my liking Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Paldies Ilzei par gr matas ieteikumu Pabeidzu to las t jau pirms da m dien m bet nevar ju sakopot domas atsauksmei Un varb t nemaz nevajag nek du atsauksmi Fakti run pa i par sevi Otr pasaules kara nosl gum un turpm kaj desmitgad V cij bija vismaz 860 000 seksu las vardarb bas upuru Ja austrumos zv r bas veica padomju armija tad rietumos ne ar ko lab ka nebija ne ASV ne fran u ne ar britu armija u. EBook Crimes unspoken band K Tikm r simtiem t ksto u upuru dz voja ar o traumu un izvaro anas tra iskaj m sek m gr mata ir oti noz m gs v stures p t jums kas gan atkl j ausm go realit tes ainu gan ar izklied vair kus sabiedr b ies d ju os m tus par izvaro anu k tipisku par d bu kara apst k os Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War INTRODUCTIONA book project on the rape of German women at theend of the Second World War and during the occupationhas first to confront certain prejudices It is as if asingle frame in a film has been frozen in our collectivememory It shows a Russian with Asiatic features yelling Urri Urri but demanding not only the watch but alsothe woman We have all seen it on television blondewoman played by Nina Hoss amid the rubble with aslavering Mongol waiting in the shadows Is there stillanything important to say on this subject The war islong over the victims are very old or dead and latergenerations find the war stories from Hollywood orBabelsberg exciting And then rape is that not arelic an archaic crime that always proceeds along muchthe same lines whether in Germany then or in IraqSyria or South Sudan today At best the subject offersa cheap platform for the eternal moralists andnationalists with their clear ideas about good and evil. Crimes Unspoken pdffiller While working on this book I frequently asked myselfwhy the wartime rape of German women was still ofinterest to me today claiming that German society is justdeluding itself into thinking that it has a blind spot in thisregard It is a pseudo taboo they say that isrepeatedly broken so that it can be erected again. PDF Crimes unspoken book According to my calculations at least 860000 women and a good number of men were raped after thewar At least 190000 of them perhaps even were assaulted by US soldiers others by British Belgianor French Nothing has ever been said about thesevictims Just as the misdeeds of big brother wereswept under the carpet in East Germany West Germansociety also kept silent about the attacks by itsdemocratic liberators The women raped by Russiansoldiers were at least afforded some recognition even ifit was manipulated for ideological ends being used topoint a finger in the East West conflict The womenviolated by GIs British and French soldiers by contrastwere if anything punished with contempt Under theSword of Damocles of the public condemnation of fraternizing women i. Crimes Unspoken kindle books e women who allegedlyprostituted themselves to the enemy and thus stabbedtheir own nation in the back it was practicallyimpossible for the victims of Western sexual aggressionto have their stories told The same applied to thewomen in the Soviet occupied zone and East Germany. Crimes unspokeny by the sea There have been only two books to date that havereached a wider audience the diary by Anonymous mentioned earlier which was made into a film in 2008and the first study by the feminist and film maker HelkeSander in 1992 Both projects had the same setting Berlin and the same perpetrators members of theRed Army However worthy these two studies werethey reinforced the belief of most Germans that thewartime sexual violence was a problem of the Sovietsoldiers whereas the other Allies had rather to beprotected from lovelorn German women Thus Sanderand Anonymous and also the journalist Erich Kuby withhis series The Russians in Berlin which appeared in theGerman news magazine Der Spiegel in the 1960shelped confirm the stereotype As a consequence theway people recall the mass rape at the end of theSecond World War has become a right left question onthe one hand the revisionists and right wingfunctionaries representing the German refugees fromEastern Europe for whom the suffering of women waspart of the dream of a Greater Germany and on theother hand the left wingers who wanted to defend thereputation of the Soviet liberators by playing down therape by the Soviet army This remains the greatestprejudice in dealing with this subject today. Random weird state laws There are still women and possibly men as well livingin old people s and nursing homes who remain hauntedby their painful memories They only need to hear aword in English or to be washed roughly by their carersfor the memory to return For that reason MartinaB hmer a specialist in geriatric care and traumatherapist has been touring Germany for years in anattempt to raise the awareness of the staff of thoseinstitutions that they might be dealing in their daily workwith victims of traumatizing wartime sexual violence. Crimes unspokeny by peoples 4Even if this problem will soon cease to exist because thelast victims will have died will it have been resolved Psychologists have discovered that Germany s history stillhas an impact generations later This is easy tounderstand in the case of women and men who aschildren were witnesses or even the product of therape of their mothers But it is also important for theirchildren to be aware of what happened and of the fateof the victims and to form an idea of the wounds thatmany of the supposedly sturdy and resolute Tr mmerfrauen rubble women today s grandmothersand great grandmothers carried with them from thewar It is also essential to look again at the moral andsexist prejudices that women were confronted with atthe time They were denied any recognition not onlybecause what they had suffered was consideredshameful but also because female sexuality was basicallyviewed with suspicion They are accused of somehowhaving asked for it. Unspoken crime media In the beginning they probably kept quiet because ofnumbness and shock and the inability to put theirexperience into words Then other things became important above all the economic and socialreconstruction of the country and the re establishment ofthe conventional patriarchal family model Then their ownpainful experiences had to take second place to politicalconsiderations and to the desire to take advantage ofthe assistance offered by the Allies There was also thejustified priority of dealing with the crimes committed bythe Germans But at some point the reasons forcontinuing to ignore the mass rape dry up. Crimes Unspoken booker Even today there is an impenetrable barrier of silencethe social opprobrium moral condescension politicalinstrumentalization official chicanery patronizingcompensation feminist partiality and lack of recognitioncausing raped women and men to be repeatedly hurthumiliated ignored or preached to Experts give thename secondary victimization to this cruel experience onthe part of the victims of violence who then becomevictims of social exclusion. Unspoken crime murders One further aim of this book is to show the degree towhich raped women after 1945 were made into victimsagain by doctors who arbitrarily approved or refusedabortions by social workers who declared pregnantwomen to be wayward and put them in reformatoriesby neighbours who self righteously gossiped about thesupposedly bad reputation of these women and byunfeeling jurists who refused compensation because theydidn t believe the women s statements. Rules of crime fiction Many detailed studies will still be required to make acomplete reconstruction of the post war rapes in otherwords to do justice to all of the circumstances insideand outside East and West Germany to the legal andadministrative consequences in all four occupied zonesand to communications between the Allied armed forcesand the German authorities and to follow up the tracesof the fathers of the children of raped womenthroughout the world For the British occupation zone inparticular I found only very few sources Were theBritish soldiers the only ones to behave decently at thetime Many questions remain to be answered. Book Crimes unspoken crossword Nevertheless the sources I was able to study providedsuch concurring and convincing answers that some ofthe crassest misconceptions about wartime sexualviolence against German women can be refuted it was mostly Russians who attacked fleeing Germanwomen in particular so as to take revenge for theirown suffering the Western Allied soldiers did not need to use forceas they got everything they wanted for a LuckyStrike the rape victims got over the experience incrediblyquickly because they formed part of a community inwhich everyone had suffered the same fate when they returned from the war or imprisonmentthe husbands of the raped women rejected their dishonoured wives and children the women raped by Russian or black soldiers abortedas quickly as possible for racist reasons the rape problem was suppressed after 1949 onaccount of injured male vanity and reinterpreted as ametaphor for the rape of the nation as a whole. EBook Crimes unspoken band These are all misconceptions and generalizations that thisbook would like to dispel My aim is to cast a new lighton this difficult subject and to untangle the half truthsand traditional prejudices Above all I would like tocorrect the image of monstrous Asiatic Russian orMoroccan rapists as compared with white Westernliberators who as has now become clear followedprecisely the same script of plunder and rape Fantasyprejudices and reality can be quickly separated if wereconstruct the events of the time from the victims perspective rather than turning them into malleablematerial for the rewriting of history as both conservativeand liberal representations have tended to do in thepast It is time for the victims themselves to speak andfor them to be rehabilitated without their beingexonerated from the crimes committed by the Germansunder the Nazi regime It is important to recognize theambiguity of the victim and perpetrator roles in order toprovide relief to their children and grandchildren from thetraumatic after effects of what their mothers andgrandmothers experienced seventy years ago This canbe done by continuing to heighten the awareness of ourown history that has been gradually developing inGermany in the last few years. Crimes Unspoken bookworm Notes1 See Atina Grossmann A Question of Silence TheRape of German Women by Occupation Soldiers in Robert G Moeller ed West Germany underConstruction Politics Society and Culture in theAdenauer Era Michigan 1997 pp 33 52 2 Laurel Cohen Pfister Rape War and Outrage ChangingPerceptions on German Victimhood in the Period ofPost Unification in Cohen Pfister and DagmarWeinr der Skinner eds Victims and Perpetrators 1933 1945 Re Presenting the Past in Post UnificationCulture Berlin New York 2006 pp 316 36 here p. Unspoken crime murders 318 3 Jens Bisky Wenn Jungen Weltgeschichtespielen haben M dchen stumme Rollen Wer war dieAnonyma in Berlin Frauen Fakten und Fiktionen Anmerkungen zu einem grossen Bucherfolg diesesSommers in S ddeutsche Zeitung 24 September2003 p 16 4 Martina B hmer Erfahrungensexualisierter Gewalt in der Lebensgeschichte alterFrauen Ans tze f r eine frauenorientierte Altenarbeit Frankfurt 2011 Crimes Unspoken The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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