- Uniform Title
- Als die Soldaten kamen. English
- Variant Title
- Rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Gebhardt, Miriam, author.
- Published
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity [2017]
- Locale
- Germany
Soviet Union
United States
France
Germany (East)
Deutschland
- Contents
-
Seventy years too late
Wrong victims?
How many were affected
Sexual aggression against men
A word about method
Berlin and the east
chronicle of a calamity foretold
The great fear
The Red Army comes
Berlin
Year on
Extracts from police reports
A different perspective
South Germany
who will protect us from the Americans?
No one's time
Moderate indignation
A "feeling of great insecurity among our soldiers"
Discussion
A "sexual conquest of Europe"?
Unbroken assertion of power by the occupiers
Parallels and differences
Pregnant, sick, ostracized
approaches to the victims
Victims twice over
Fraternization
The abortion problem
No one's children
"The other victims are also taken care of"
First the French, then the public authorities
"I love this child as much as the others"
The long shadow
The effects of the experience of violence
The myth of female invulnerability
"Anonymous" and the censorship of memory
Duties of loyalty
First feminist protests
Helke Sander's "BeFreier" and the German victim debate
The past today.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seventy years too late -- Wrong victims? -- How many were affected -- Sexual aggression against men -- A word about method -- Berlin and the east -- chronicle of a calamity foretold -- The great fear -- The Red Army comes -- Berlin -- Year on -- Extracts from police reports -- A different perspective -- South Germany -- who will protect us from the Americans? -- No one's time -- Moderate indignation -- A "feeling of great insecurity among our soldiers" -- Discussion -- A "sexual conquest of Europe"? -- Unbroken assertion of power by the occupiers -- Parallels and differences -- Pregnant, sick, ostracized -- approaches to the victims -- Victims twice over -- Fraternization -- The abortion problem -- No one's children -- "The other victims are also taken care of" -- First the French, then the public authorities -- "I love this child as much as the others" -- The long shadow -- The effects of the experience of violence -- The myth of female invulnerability -- "Anonymous" and the censorship of memory -- Duties of loyalty -- First feminist protests -- Helke Sander's "BeFreier" and the German victim debate -- The past today.
Translated from the German.