Germany's War: The Origins, Aftermath & Atrocities of World War II

Via Sarah

 The Russian rapes caused many German women to commit suicide. The preferred form of suicide was poison, and most Berlin women seem to have been provided with poison before the Red Army arrived.

Senegalese and the French soldiers, drunk at night, would go from door to door until they found girls’ names listed of any age they wished to rape… American provost marshal, Lt. Colonel Gerald F. Beane, said that rape represents no problem to the military police because ‘a bit of food, a bar of chocolate, or a bar of soap seems to make rape unnecessary.’

Churches were frequently used by Russian soldiers to rape… In unending succession were girls, women and nuns violated… Not merely in secret, in hidden corners, but in the sight of everybody, even in churches, in the streets and in public places were nuns, women and even eight-year-old girls attacked again and again…

Most Frenchmen speak of the correctness of the German Army’s behavior. They seem particularly impressed that German soldiers were shot for incivility to women and compare this with the American troops’ bad behavior to women…