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Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War  Cover Image Book Book

Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War

Gebhardt, Miriam (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781509511204
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    vi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- One year on -- 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.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany
Rape -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Rape victims -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Crimes against -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Single mothers -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Soviet Union -- Armed Forces -- Germany (East)
United States -- Armed Forces -- Foreign service -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
France -- Armed Forces -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955

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