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Wednesday 3 June 2020

Rapes of Russian women by the Germans


  In the terrible history of the Second World War, there are many totally forgotten events.
The rapes of German women by Allied forces, Russians, Americans, French, etc., have been widely publicized and aired, especially by the Germans, but like all stories they must be told from their beginning and the beginning is not the invasion of Germany. by the allies but the action of the Germans in the countries occupied with the civilian population.
n World War I, the German army's losses from sexually transmitted diseases amounted to approximately 2 million people. The losses of the German army in World War II from sexually transmitted diseases were significantly lower, the exact figure is 706 thousand people. These are the ones who had gonorrhea and syphilis, and those who couldn't fight for some time.

In total, during the war, according to historians, according to documents, the German army organized 569 brothels, in which at least 50 thousand women worked. Some conservatives say that there were, in fact, 35,000. We will not establish the exact figure, but I think the 50 thousand figure is closer to the truth.


These estimates do not take into account the violations committed "in situ" when occupying cities and towns, which were undoubtedly higher.
How were women recruited there? Differently. In different sources, in general, there is different information. In Kharkov, say, it was reported that they simply pulled relatively pretty girls out of the tail of the job exchange and were forcibly taken to a specific service. Another option was an alternative, to go to Germany for forced labor or to go to a brothel.
I must say that many of the German soldiers did not like going to these establishments too much, because they underwent a strict medical control; There, I will not tell all kinds of details about the injections and other charms that precede and enclose the pleasure received and the lines. that was there in the streets and so on. Very often, German soldiers solved their sexual problems in a different way.

The violations of the Germans were publicly known and this poster warns of them and asks the sailor in the picture for help and revenge.


Initially, exclusively due to violence. As early as January 1942, the Molotov note on Nazi crimes of January 7, 1942 was presented to the world community. Among other things, this note spoke of rape, often accompanied by murder and all kinds of atrocities against women. This practice continued, in fact, throughout the war. And about some of the wildest cases, we know, oddly enough, from German judicial investigation materials. Because it is very rare, but nevertheless, rapists were tried.
the court was never intended to protect a woman. . Furthermore, it was written there so that "since Russian women have lost the concept of feminine honor, there can be no doubt that a German court does not protect them."*
*Oleg Budnitsky.Doctor of Historical Sciences,
The number of rapes in the Soviet Union was much higher than in western Europe. There was a special attitude towards the civilian population: that this is a second-class population, these are completely different people. And the war in the East was completely different from the war in the West. In fact, German soldiers were granted the right to kill the civilian population.

The Russian army had a large number of women in ranks, note the treatment the Germans gave to female prisoner soldiers.



Attrocities

Occasionally, from deployment locations for parts of the Wehrmacht, "hunting expeditions" would depart for the surrounding settlements. "We went to the village of Rozhdestveno near Gatchina," said Private Peter Schuber, who was serving at Seversky Airfield. officers, in the morning they gave the girls to our soldiers. "
In Smolensk, the German command opened an officers' brothel in one of the hotels, to which hundreds of girls and women led; they were dragged by the hands, by the hair, ruthlessly dragged along the pavement. In the village of Semenovskoye, Kalinin region, the Germans raped 25-year-old Olga Tikhonova, wife of the Red Army, mother of three children, who was in the last stage of pregnancy.


Hungarian soldiers, allies of the Germans, with Russian women killed after raping them

In Belarus, near the city of Borisov, 75 women and girls who fled as German troops approached fell into the hands of the Nazis. The invaders raped and then brutally murdered 36 women and girls.
After the Red Army forces expelled the Nazis from Kerch, the Red Army had a terrible vision: "In the prison yard a lot of mutilated naked bodies of naked girls were found, savagely and cynically tormented by the Nazis" . In the city of Tikhvin, Leningrad region, a high school student M. Kolodetskaya, who was injured by a missing fragment, was taken to a hospital located in a former monastery. As witnesses later showed, "Despite the injury, Kolodetskaya was raped by a group of German soldiers, resulting in her death."
In the town of Borodayevka, Dnipropetrovsk region, the Nazis raped all women and girls without exception.**
This photo of the deceased Russian woman - mother, needs no comment.



**Vladimir Zabarovsky, director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War

The Germans knew what they had done and feared retaliation.

From the diary of the German Dieter Borkovsky, 16, from April 15, 1945. The day before the start of the final operation of the Red Army to capture Berlin:

Berlin train The car is full of women and children, refugees, noise, roar, panic. Someone shouted. Everyone saw a simple and dirty German soldier, with iron crosses for participating in a battle with tanks. "" I want to tell you something, "he yelled, and there was silence on the train.

This is what the Germans did. The revenge of the Russians is fair and it seems very soft to me.

"- Even if they don't want to listen! We must win this war, we must not lose courage. If the others win - Russians, Poles, French, Czechs - and at least one percent do to our people what we did to them for six years "They have been working with them for years in a row, in a few weeks not a single German will be alive. This is what someone who has been in the occupied countries for six years tells them! "The train was so quiet that you could hear the fork drop."

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