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Allied Troops Raped Many Tens of Thousands of Women in Occupied Germany, New Book by book Scholar
Allied Troops Raped Many Tens of Thousands of Women in Occupied Germany, New Book by German Scholar Claims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-heroes.html
... One of the enduring narratives of World War II is that during the invasion of the Third Reich, British and American troops largely behaved well, and it was the soldiers of the Soviet Union's Red Army who raped hundreds of thousands of German females, aged from eight to 80.
However, a new book published in Germany makes the shocking and disturbing claim that the Americans raped a staggering 190,000 women in the decade from the invasion until West Germany became a sovereign country in 1955. In When The Soldiers Came, historian Professor Miriam Gebhardt also suggests the British raped 45,000 German women, and the French a further 50,000 ... Is it really possible that the numbers are so high?...
Although France was an ally, that did not stop U.S. troops from raping an estimated 3,600 French women.
Allied Soldiers Raped Hundreds of Thousands of German Women, New Scholarly Study Claims
http://www.thelocal.de/20150305/book...y-1mil-germans
A German historian estimates in a new book that French, British and American soldiers raped 860,000 Germans at and after the end of the Second World War, including 190,000 sexual assaults by American soldiers.
Professor Miriam Gebhardt's book When the Soldiers Came, published this week, includes interviews with victims, stories of the children of rape and research that she conducted over the course of a year and a half into birth records in Allied-occupied West Germany and West Berlin ...
A well-received 2003 book by American professor of criminology J. Robert Lilly, Taken by Force, estimated that American soldiers committed around 11,000 rapes in Germany ... Gebhardt's research also included records from Bavarian priests recording the Allied advance in 1945 ...
Postwar Rape: Were Americans As Bad as the Soviets?
Der Spiegel (Germany)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...a-1021298.html
... German historian Miriam Gebhardt, well known in Germany for her book about leading feminist Alice Schwarzer and the feminist movement, has now published a new volume casting doubt on the accepted version of America's role in German postwar history ...
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 ...
Studies in recent years have shed light on incidents involving GIs plundering churches, murdering Italian civilians, killing German prisoners of war and raping women, even as they advanced across France.
Allied Soldiers Raped Many German Women, Historian Finds
New Books in German
http://www.new-books-in-german.com/e...2/design1.html
When the Soldiers Came deals with the period between the final days of the Second World War and the end of the occupation of Germany in 1955.
The soldiers who liberated Germany from Nazi rule in 1945 also brought new suffering to many women. An estimated one million women and girls - and a considerable number of men - became victims of sexual violence all over the country ...
It was not just Russian soldiers who committed rape, but also a large number of American, British and French soldiers. The historian and journalist Miriam Gebhardt draws on extensive source material, including police, church and hospital documents as well as personal diaries, to chart the widespread sexual violence in the decade after the war.
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