The Germans raped, and murdered, far more than the Russians

The history of WWII has been told almost 100% from the Western point of view and more specifically German. Now in the second decade of the 21st century and 75 years after the end of the war we know that the majority of the German government, police, army and secret police of West Germany was composed of a majority, or all, of Nazis. The Americans gave priority to the cold war against Russia and the punishment of the murderers was relegated to second or third place. The historiography about the war came practically from the German side, especially from the war in the East, and Anglo-Saxon historians, in many cases, relied on them. It was not until a few decades ago that English and American historians directly consulted Russian archives that offer a totally different experience from what happened in the  East.

Russian women and children

   An example of this is the reality of the rapes of     women. The rapes of German women by the Russians have been publicized ad nauseam. Also recently it has been shown that other allies also raped German women but the rape, and murder, of Russian women and girls by the Germans lies in complete oblivion. With the aggravating circumstance that the vast majority of the raped German women were still alive, but the percentage of Russian women, and those from other nations, murdered after raping them by the Germans is very high.

To this is added that Russian historians and the Russian people in general are reluctant to deal with this subject that threatens their honor.

Moscow historian Ksenia Sak recently published a book called "Missing and Forgotten: Women Raped in the Soviet Occupied Territories."

The report is emotionally horrible in terms of factual content, but on this subject it is necessary to speak: violence against women by the occupiers of the Axis countries and local collaborationist units was actually legalized as part of the implementation of the plan. Ost for genocide. civilians in Poland, Russia, Belarus, the Baltic countries and other territories within the Soviet Union.

The Germans used rape in many cases in a systematic way, creating brothels with forcibly recruited women, in the occupied cities there was a veritable hunt for young women for those brothels and many mothers who went out to look for some food never returned.

Some examples :

In Moldova, the Germans raped a 9-year-old girl - her mother found her covered in blood, unconscious. The next day, her mother went to the commander's office and filed a complaint - they laughed at her, it all ended in nothing.

The historian found in the archives the fact of the rape by German soldiers of a 9-year-old girl who was skiing. There have been cases of rape of older women, up to the age of 68. These crimes were almost always accompanied by beatings and injuries, and some victims went crazy and tried to hang themselves.

According to Ksenia Sak, the rapes of Soviet women committed by soldiers of the Wehrmacht, SS, SD and collaborators in the occupied territories were practically not documented during the first year and a half of the Great Patriotic War. But after Army Group Center, Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch was expelled from Moscow, thousands of rape cases were revealed. In 1942 the Extraordinary State Commission (CHGK) was created, which registered, among other things, this type of crime. The author of the report gave an example from the ChGK newscast about the third year of the war in Rzhev. This chronicle was shown during the Nuremberg Tribunal. "Next door, a family tortured by Nazi soldiers. Their 18-year-old son Valentin was shot in the eye. Raya's 15-year-old daughter was stabbed to death with a bayonet. Katya's daughter , 5 months old, was shot in the temple. Daughter Zina, 18 years old.

In the village of Khanino, a group of German officers organized a drunken party to which they dragged a local teacher and raped her one by one. Sixteen-year-old collective farmer Ch. She was raped by five German soldiers. The Nazis rounded up all the girls and young women from Tokarevo and the surrounding villages and led them in an unknown direction.

(Red Star, September 11, 1941)

In the Ukrainian village of Borodaevka, the Nazis raped all the women and girls.

Unfortunately, the facts of these crimes did not become part of the Nuremberg trials by the Nazis, and most Soviet women chose to hide their shame. There was an idea to demand reparations from Germany: 3,000 rubles for a raped woman and 5,000 rubles for a disgraced girl, but the Soviet leadership did not support it.

To be continue....