Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Seventy years too late
Wrong victims?
How many were affected
Sexual aggression against men
A word about method
Chapter 2 Berlin and the East – chronicle of a calamity
foretold
The great fear
The Red Army comes
Berlin
One year on
Extracts from police reports
A different perspective
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 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’
Chapter 5 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
Sources and selected literature
Index
Miriam Gebhardt is an historian and journalist who teaches at the University of Konstanz.
‘Miriam Gebhardt’s study is not the first that explores the
experiences of circa 860.000 German women, who were raped by Allied
soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World. But it shifts the
focus from the notorious mass rape of Soviet soldiers to the
members of the American, British and French forces and estimates
that at least 190.000 German women experienced sexual violence by
them. With her excellent study she thus challenges the common
picture of the “honourable” Western allied armies.’
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
‘Miriam Gebhardt has uncovered swathes of new evidence relating to
the rape of German women in the US Zone of Occupation. Her book
adds a further dimension to our knowledge of life in Germany in the
immediate aftermath of the war.’
Giles MacDonogh, historian and author
‘A harrowing and highly recommended work of scholarship.’
Times Higher Education Supplement
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