the, the, and that's all from the news for now, after the break a documentary about women and girls who were sexually abused during the last days of world war $2.00 to $2.00 for that. thank so much for your company. the not just another day. so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand this is the day i'm in, that's look at current use events, analyzed by experts and critical thinking is weekdays on d, w. the in naples in the house next door. we've been evacuated from munich,

black. suddenly in the night, i heard terrible screams and cries. i was like, what had gone there because i couldn't sleep. sounds. can i get in? yes, people had common rates. the women you can see on the screen were so horrendous by this law. so please the submission and actually it was a nationwide catastrophe. one that effected an entire generation full for give you the ability the scottish desk. how often did i hear that 70 years ago? because i was award shows like this thoughts of the area that were conveyed all the hor,

it definitely is that we always said i was taken when we talked about it then the advisors for the much fees you so realty, you felt dirty game that i come in yet help saga in general. so you can see that not enough have the meat of the fact that all troops committed acts of sexual violence x and the guy talking always good. tom is the registrar associate army, the americans, the french and the british love of india. drama vibe. i think that if we are focusing primarily on the violent august admitted by the red army docking to holton, i'm need some concepts and then what we mean stuck in a very simplistic explanatory model, actually on small special dixon. the for the while doing is i did right. there's an old control pass and in war time, so i can leave it at the vintage shows the enemy soldiers or the front on protect

your women, mina, and it's a way of diesel entering. the men's military on easy the filters i was searching for my identity for 40 years took the crazy thing is that this rape is what led me to be in the live the in europe to the 2nd world war had just come to an end gym and she's lay in ruins.

in 1945, the months between the end of fighting and the new beginning was sort of chaos, dispatch euphoria, guilt and had. but this was also a time that proved to be especially dangerous for women. the minus, the new taker said somebody, conservative estimate are set to work close to 900000 great victim all the rapes themselves could be much higher because many victims were raped multiple times or to go for the body to support women were raped by allied soldiers in the 1st weeks and months of to the surrender of nazi germany violated by those who came to europe as liberal rates as american british and french troops and soldiers from the soviet red. tell me this highest best. this means there's likely no german family or family that lived in germany at the time that wasn't

effected in some way. i know why is it that from the coffee either completely to their own cells or at least to the fear that it could happen to their own family members for this this, i can then from in on gazillion puss young print, the only when she was a 2 years old student maximilian, a high goes mother mago speak of childhood memories of soldiers and awful screens. in the spring of 1945 off to ad rates. the u. s. army occupied the bavarian town of land suits 4 year old mako, her mother, and the female cousin. so shell, to bring the seller to fowling home to saw, the women live together more or less without men. i'm just done keeping. and then in april 19, 45 and 50 shots people when the bump arguments of nuns who became too severe house, they fled to a house and fog off. right. connected to the church. the

i'd still me to kind of on for when the americans arrived, they forced their way into the house on this one the other day. there were several of them and they were heavily armed as how special they searching the house from top to bottom. and then in a cupboard in one of the bedrooms they saw them walk. so you have a warm hanging on a hanger. i'm really and then they asked, where is this man whom dung just talked with, where is this man? where is the soldier long voice? so thought went on st pete max and then they are more and more aggressive and true. the women into the bedroom, the shut off to make you 3, the once done. com is incentive, then seduce in the bedroom. the us. um yeah, i know that one of the soldiers through my grandmother steps onto the bed of spit and tried to take her clothes off. yes,

it's the mungo state sign and for decades in the family, no one ever spoke about the events that occurred at the end of april 1945. it was only her daughter maximilian, who upon learning of her grandmother's right, decided to find out more about the time us troops and to this area. she began looking for witnesses to this history, and especially in the villages i'm was match with the world of silence. as of this yesterday faith, the sort of ours i feel that i work wasn't a small rural area on the border between upper bavaria and lower bavaria. i think in the district of alternating wish to be very catholic community with a lot of social control. the backs in new incidents had occurred as yet it took almost a year to find women and also men face. people were willing to tell me what happened

there. mean that a team have done it? said it almost the story. i my home. yeah. so, oh man, we weren't so afraid of the soldiers or the russians coming here. so we'd heard terrible things about them and hopefully americans would arrive before the russians use this sort of the issue. it was a 1st and we were at the native oceans to the virgin mary. you could hear the sounds of the tags and vehicles in the church. suddenly the priest said that the enemy has forced its way into our village and is in the doors and get to go home each week. no women and girls were to comport themselves with dignity and suites of the enemy used to be cut off of find they came upstairs to our place. 2 young americans looked at single measuring

sticks and of course they saw my mother and my sisters gave up. talk to you right away at the start of items annexed rate is a weapon of war. and as long as army commanders don't take strict actions against that total of the, their tolerating it. and perhaps even exploiting it for their own military aims exceed all spite 6 and because actual violence, i was in a certain sense that so intimate, that it can rupture family structures the to them, that connection on the social cohesion of a society in the long term i'm supposed to get charged around come, nanny, be honest, has written down the traumatic experiences. she associates with february of 1945 things to witness. the red armies rested advance into breasts. now, the historical capital of saint easier, now known as the polish city of lots less feet. it was

a shed at implementing is a big cities were destroyed, but not for as low as the where we had air written warnings. you got the magazine and we always said, that's why we're in for it now. the one that's and it was a disaster. the russian spend a ring around personnel in circling the city breast slow was around it, and it was a fortress. i'm sure that's the ones that fist on the city was supposed to serve as a bull wilks and stops the russians from advancing. so the order to event to 8 came

fall to lights, the new need. the alice was just 14 years old at the time the event in california were uncle reinhold center, and he was my father's youngest brother. the say it was nothing regarding my mind. i can still see a sitting there in a circle like this. i sat here and my mother was next to me, a witness done on the mom's other side, set my brother vin speed. my youngest brother, they used to teach tillman, i stormed in. and we just sat like the dog is as far as the i don't know if he

screened or cried. we trembled sitting there. how does this come to? i know one soldier came in the sea, looked around me, saw me set and yanked me towards him. the look and mother cried out the spice exactly. and how he threw me on the floor in the drawer and stop it happened that is done. i see it like this in the spring. right. and what the planning land one another on on saw issue of the land and 10 mazda were among around 1400000 women who were raped 12 fleeing east prussia or site. easier, often, more than once nazi propaganda about the red menace meant fear of the soviet soldiers was especially great not to me and felt like one more afraid of the slavic peoples. indeed, because of the rid of his hire p of the time they were portrayed his monstrous

months primitive, i couldn't as be driven by physical urges, as best jim katasha ms. wharton vaughan. so accordingly they triggered more fears of colors, idols, and his own to rush, calculated their opponents, eventual, or full revenge into that comes in his diary minister of propaganda, yoseph gathers quoted to get nervous saying not long after nazi germany's invasion of the soviet union in 1941 we have so much to answer for that we must win because otherwise our entire nation with us a tips head will be a right to k to along with old we hold the. so let's get to walk the direction for pricing in the nazi leadership. the heads of the van law and even individual soldiers was certainly conscious of the german crime, is committed in the eastern territories and they ordered them knew about them,

sold them, or even committed the missile, but unable to well. but if the red army came to germany, then god have mercy on us all at once. cool. at the start of 1945, the russian army stood 80 kilometer as outside funding and was preparing its attack on the german capital. close to 3000000 people was still living that among the women, panic was growing. many, so killing themselves as the only way to evade the enemy. in april, the number of suicides in berlin reached record levels at close to 4000. the on the 8th of may, 1965. it lives no c gemini, surrendered. the last great best of the 2nd world war on european soil was now as

the value just because the lean was one huge war trophy. the soldiers were given free reign to enjoy the victory in the house can get the victims. if this flushed his victory with the women, it said that a few red army soldiers carried a leaflet with them, which said, crush the germanic women's, racial pride, take them as your rightful spoils, the civic and receive as well. revenge was certainly an important motivated on perhaps what most important whitening but other factors also came into play, especially the internal military culture. and i read amin, a band on vacations if casualties, one cool collision for bad leadership by offices and sergeants who kept passing the pressure down from the upper ranks on monday. and to relieve this pressure, they've left their own troops, run wild kind of office, the

bus to the what i mean. what is this true for? the red army asked for the us army was that troops had certain images of the more of the probity of german society for andrew and women of deduction funds that seem to justify not applying any moral standards in their dealings with them. and the government in the, the is on the says that the us army from the west seem to worried the german population less. in march of 1945, the americans cross the rhine and by 8 pull, they'd already reached the rings you inclined. but to know if the village priest

rose in relief, the americans are coming. there's excitement, but no frights and excitements between frightened joy. but leaning more towards george. a quarter of a year late to the troops would withdrawal the 9 months later conrad was born. right self to his bus, his mother put him in foster care when he was a, his 1st assistant told him the reason why or help me out see it. that's all she told me in 1945, the americans were in eisenberg and your mother got involved with one of those americans didn't get us and he's your father to hospice to ensure that's how you came to be just for me at 1st, that was actually more of a relief than

a shot next i, scottish boss got kind of shock as well. i mean, i know i knew where i came from. it's who will voice bullshit. the shuttle holder, however, i had red hair and gaps between my teeth. extracted from an early age i had a kind of inferior already complex. i didn't belong. i didn't know where i was at, and i had no protection, no one to protect me. no one supported them in my childhood. no one ever took me under their wing need and i'll get them. comrade was a cheeky kid too soon became a son in the side of the east gym, and school system is 3rd grade report card states that he constantly interrupted lessons and was proud to be a farmer and his family was employed to take action before it's too late for me, for me, my father was my anger and guy i had a secret that belonged only to me. there's one that gave me strength. and so i've,

it was like i was on a kind of mission or the just destiny are you, i'm in america your one day i'll leave here and joined my father and americans to resume vacant did not want me to go through my thoughts on the us soldiers went as widely fee it and they were expected to abide by the military leadership strict code of conduct. germany was conquered enemy territory and they were supposed to keep that distance from the gym and people training films which showed to prepare american soldiers the do a lot associated with german men, women, or children. every german is a potential source of trouble. therefore, there must be no freedom ization with any of the german people. randomization means

making friends with german people on line or friends can advise you in general, armies forbid fraction, ization i out of concern by informal contact is august. folders have with the domestic population. men, the contact will lead to weaken. name is that the army prefer oklahoma. com. that's the social based on the, on the i the and vincy done as my pen soon. so if they start to have personal contacts and for example, you have a beer to bar to give them the evenings to them, they could lose sight of the occupying powers goals of simply the us. so just advance didn't always go smoothly. the liberation of bavaria took several weeks. well, in some places, jem and surrendered without to fight just a few kilometers away. hitting this last contingents would continue to protect us from resistance. that includes

the it was still young people would take up arms and try to fight the us soldiers less so that and so the came from a see to also it appears that the place is most resistant to being taken over. we're the ones most affected by sexualized war violence, have dish me dish, centralize the toilet, are going to run on that. that gets most for take most book near flies, english clicks. there was a big prisoner of war camp there and was with the us troops moving in could see how their comrades had been treated in germany. this in particular seems to have triggered a lot of anger and the you a soldier as by then that led to an especially large number of sexual assaults which were carried out systematically. apparently they made marks on houses, it presumably inhabited by women, essentially declaring them to be afraid to clear this report about the troops

arrival risking by the priest of the town. as most book states. on monday, the 1st news about rapes reached the rectory. it's not possible for this context that to provide any numbers here. several goals jumped out the 1st floor window onto the street and laid that in just the, at the time rec, trees were among the few gem and institutions still functioning. said that the very m priests reports on the allies arrive, will remain an important source for historians. and generally slight maximilian. the height of of the home here in buddhist us. here we have the report from the saint nicholas parish in bod. right. and how, oh sorry, i was on the one hand, it makes the blanket statements that a large number of women and girls with violates the 2 monks. but in parentheses, the tier is being added, but this to give them 200. that's what a 100 times from this formulation. so priest makes it clear that he has no personal

knowledge of the method, but it's just for laying what the towns focusing on home to be the room, the voice. and then comes the frequently confirmed information that's all off to the americans marched in there was relative peace could we stop with. but then the french troops squared advancing ice cream and cut off. and the wood was se would come missing terrible crimes and sickly. namely in moral terms, they committed terrible crimes against women and goals. so if you see, if a rhodes college moroccans use gun violates to force that way, unit 9. this is, it was fairly typical to mention the skin color of the soldiers or fine who is doing the blundering sort often or to confirm. thank you. call me in good. the french regiments, which included soldiers of north african descent, made it particularly strong impression 50 code to perform the goals. troops for

barbara street, they sold and rob did. chased after the women and the young girls locked themselves in the attic and the silver soldiers couldn't come in. the 1st differential me also kept tax of sexual violence secrets. but when challenges were pressed, the military court stole down particularly harsh sentences. defrances colonial trips, just as most of the racism of societies back then, not just the german, but also the british, french and american ones which is reflected in the numbers of convicted and sentenced and perpetrators. because the fruits and on foot what it was clearly so that for instance, in the us army, the black culprits were charged more often. we also received much marsher sentences including the death penalty as possible. and so to discover friendship occupied the territory near the french jim and buddha. here in south

west in germany, it was mainly the french, occupies most of us retaliation that's burned into people's collective memory fronts. what will happen often are great on the train, and the 2nd was reputation with the german people on that apply only to prove that folks also see it. that could be reprisal included as revenge for the full year long term and occupation upfront. and in fact, there were many sexual assaults when the french marched into south west in germany, if you look or in the french occupations. and children followed by french, so just have to be registered by orders of the military governor. so it's on record that most of the rapes would not in fact commit to, to by colonial troops. ringback goes uh, item one in february 1946 was one of these frenchman's kids. she grew up with her

grandmother in as an engineer concert. she knows nothing about the events surrounding her conception. only that her father was a french soldier. at the age of 10 honor who was i was suddenly sent to from because she was deemed to be a child of the french state of the moment royce vic most from the moment i had to leave. i wasn't shocked as a deer was this tama the old for by was sent unprepared time for and country and was a foreign language by or live with nuns. that's laws, that was a dramatic change for me is most of once i had to learn french, but i was there for 3 years on became a french limits. punters. i was a forced frank, a file all coffee, the unique, fucked. while i was never asked what i wanted, excuse me, and nothing has ever explained to me. to do some type pulling up to the point in

time when i learned that there was an archive coma in clermont, in front of the french archive, i knew nothing at all on each rod on. then i was outraged that i was an honest, familiar timeframe. each box for the funds. awesome. so the, as i said, i know it certainly existed and the french archives even exist to like the guns and all of the children fathered by french soldiers. so could, so were archived on the orders of general ken asian that i could see from this document on a wholesale also lent her father's name full bath. yet she's never been able to find him. many thousands of women soaked as being right to the friendship to patients by the summer of 1945,

the consequences of that sexual violence had become old to clear. many women wanted to have an abortion, but to be granted when they needed to have previously reported the rate is this going to college is noted in the vast majority of cases, no report was made to deal slower cheese out of shame and to see a disgrace consequently, in almost every case and incredibly time consuming investigation was necessary to differentiate in the real rate cases from the site to ones. the viper, male sexuality was basically viewed as unreliable unless the cost of divisions that when in doubt the rulings always went against the woman. it was always thought that the woman seduced the man, that she didn't have her own sexual desires, under controlled, as he bought. the more that she wasn't meant to realistic and wanted something from the soldiers. and that she's in gave herself or sold herself to get it cost

on the hoses. mount the monica also contravene the moral codes at the time in spring 1945, near the gym and city of culture, she met the french soldier who would become, i know, who was his father mine and what the i mother was a very reserved woman involved is what kind of did issue wasn't someone who not taken the initiative of mine and with that, so i think my mother has the opportunity to earn money from the french can to put in. but infantilism after monica unexpectedly became pregnant by the french soldier . she was known in her home village as the frenchman's darling. eventually she was forced to leave the treat after the war, women normally weren't permitted to have a relationship with a frenchman, norton norton, american, nor the englishman, nor a russian deed for him. and friends honk this shape the women's handle and chase

and through the villages on restore. and there was no difference in germany inductions only on this default. and the women weren't allowed to have lesions. but the enemy of the stuff that didn't stop relationships from happening off to the 0, alice struck mocking gemini surrender. people wanted to forget about the past, german women right? by sold you as well. rough and helping me to blame. so most didn't press charges to great was the shame and the feelings of guilt towards that husbands and families as well. the mice and most of the women liked we never spoke about it, not even with their husbands when they eventually returned. plus there was no one tap infrastructure that could have dealt with this. there was no legal framework whatsoever from the german police or the german courts to take action against it. in this respect, there was no systematic registration system much fossil. it's estimated that

between the early summer and full of 1945, at least 110000 women and girls were raped in berlin, allowed many of them multiple times. these figures around the estimates this is done using old patient records and registration phones, like those found to be all kinds of bindings who bought university files from the empress of goose to victoria house. children's hospital, for instance, showed up 5 percent of the children born between the end of 1945 on the summer of 1946 had russian fathers. in many of these cases, the only entry on the line for father is russian. and in parentheses, the german word for right in the entire sylvia talked to patients and historians estimate that more than $500000.00 women would rate during the fast paced while he is american soldiers adult. to have committed

over a 190000 sexual assaults. the figure is a still unknown for the british allied troops. the allies divided gemini and by then into full occupations. at a time, the occupiers became the liberators. from then on lots of says with allied soldiers . when the longer wrap soon, no one was talking about the crimes committed in the weeks of to the was and it's the victims with us when long it's show for a long time. but even to these a day, people don't like to talk about crimes committed by the allies. but today for 2 reasons. first, they're out present to allies all and 2nd, because especially on the german side with all the crimes carried out in germany's name during world war 2. it's hard to point a finger at the allies because very

quickly, you can reach relative izing and off assessing to them and deal of clicking butcher switch off the use of rationing and shortages. germans loans for stability. 1948 proved to be a decisive here. the americans have been preparing the currency reform in the west and zones. this effectively split germany into 2 economic divisions and kicks down to the economic miracle in the west and half the political division followed just to get away to the republic of germany held its 1st parliamentary elections in 1949 on the election post. as the christian democrat, some c, d, u, used to stereotypical images of the enemy to stare up, fees of the red menace. c d. u candidate to conrad and now it became the 1st chance and the new republic. realize who i'm the got to the occupation states just ended at ogden out tied to these countries site to the west. now, at the latest, it was also in west germany's political interests that the guilt for crimes

committed by the allies was placed solely upon the soviets. harfers, especially during the war actual and discouraging cakes. and in the store, in west germany, western europe and the last 6 and the sexual violence committed by red army soldiers. peers was often scandalized. i'd as allegedly be, especially in civilized or brutal for time as with the student out of the voices as or memories. yeah. those really impacted as well as their perpetrators. i went on heard, come back with me for the only in 1992 to the documentary. once again, take up the controversial topic of rates committed by allied troops and postal gemini. con heidi, i was one of the contemporary witnesses recounting the story of his desperate search for his father.

in the cyan, one to the side, to also known as liberators. take liberties direct to have cars on the talks to victims, perpetrators and children born of right. what the film makes clear, the decades german society largely blamed these women and children for the phase deputy, for the overall buyers are just used to try to buy insurance. the film was viewed as a milestone one when it came to confronting this history. and without a doubt that was also because up to that point in time, there to hardly been any kind of reflection about it and what to about. and in my mother's case, my step father did everything, he could this impressive filter image i can define shocking examples. why was this such a taboo topic for so long as i live on the 1st we women want a custom to talking about their own interest and size? and i think that's the decisive factor the most by the disposal. and no one made it easy for them because if they tried to talk about it to other speed,

wind up being punished all over again. officially, these are the many women instead of a conflict with their own relatives, afterwards was much tougher to take than the rape itself for his mother. conrad young's very existence was proof of that so called shame. the 22 year old cl naji student was made to carry the blame for something over which he had no control. in 1968, the rebellious young man once again drove to compass to see his mazda and finally line his father's name. they'll have to inch for the sixty's. i mean, they kind of plan to bring this american into play and you bought your stuff. she asked me to come into the kitchen and sat down to i was just about to start when the door was thrown open and her husband was standing in the kitchen doorway when your money shunted decoration to have you started yelling. when i get out of here, good. get out here and that'll do you have no business here? no reason to be here, justin,

and leave our mother increase one last was on. what do you do? we have absolutely nothing to do with politics. leave the room, scramble for leave our home and never come back for that. someone's a vote on putting the, the, the, the 4 years later, conrad, you received a left. so with a clear message the it was written not by his mother, but by her husband. the so destroyed by look for the blame and yourself not in others. we bear no responsibility whatsoever for you is to me. that's the letter. this is deputy, the, the lifelong search for an unknown father for one's own identity for love and acceptance. these things of also left on know who is the with deep psychological

scars not the mothers proceeded. you always have the sense that house of justice missing as well. i'm tired and you always have the feeling that you don't belong anywhere. monday afternoon, but you don't belong to friends and you don't belong to germany. the phone caused wants to kill them just enough butcher. in 1948. i know who is his mother. i got married to a frenchman. he to the ever so i know it was a, as the child born into shape as i was playing with strict, always very strict, but we didn't have any real relationship with him. but before a storm, shortly before he died, he told me that he never had to stand me are obviously the own. i said why? i was always a good kid. so it was like an electrical shock with through me from top to bottom. it was that simple, $3200.00 children, but one of right poor officially registered in west germany and west berlin. still

the number of unreported cases was suddenly much higher. in west germany, the politicians on society denied responsibility for these women and children. the women was recognized as victims of war and thus had no rights to compensation. that's what does a slot from to that was off the table right from the start because the state couldn't have afforded it and didn't want to be there. and boy, and it would have put women equal was centrally civilian war victims on an equal footing with war disabled soldiers. 6 busy at the farm in east germany, rates conducted by red army soldiers were also to boot. he'll make time and time again, calling about the present to the communist doseover at chase. in 1986 east german officials decided to deport him to the west. a day before the protestant minister was forced to leave the country. he drove to compass one last time. it's right

on either mine and what offs i wanted to visit my mother one last time. i am signal for the sole purpose of having her telling me the name of the american homicide on the scene. and she started to sob and cry something awful. and i tried to kind of trust. i have no idea of what you want as to why you're telling me this. there is no american on the on it's the, it wasn't as developed our truck spot. i was at the black market trying to try to pair of shoes or fluid to come. then a truck drove and filled with the russian was a dish department. they jumped down and conducted a rate on the market. good engines and me a host of and they drove me out to a field that the army down on the ground or on 0. so one of the men help the machine gun into my temple while the other tore off my clothes downright to me or do something from life, give us and obviously think about it is or done. the other one's turn done with one

. give us the yes. in arch, within 20 minutes i became russian for 2 of us. the time it's all coming to the year long dream that i was american when bus 2. so i mean, i called like i can filled out the course of events in the month of february to june 1945, the way i beat them at the time these assignments and from the perspective of an almost 15 year old and a fast since 10 years man, a beyond us lived the age of $94.00. at the end of her life, she made her peace with the sexual vine and she didn't judge 40. she says she

became a happy person. thanks to the novice has the by. yeah, yes, and he was very loving, said the very loving with any new i was afraid of mr. wright to cut it. yeah. yes. i also was afraid of the right guy or that mission, but he never pressured me. i said, and even when we were engaged, 5 sets, it took a really long time. yes. or the you said davis, my name, i have my husband martin and my mother to think for this that's the issue that i owe to my own surprise. if i just can speak about it, i wait for you a gun, the

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