Soviet Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing Through Rape

Soviet Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing Through Rape

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Marta Hillers
"It covers the weeks from 20 April to 22 June 1945, during the capture of Berlin and its occupation by the Red Army. The writer describes the widespread rapes by Soviet soldiers, including her own, and the women's pragmatic approach to survival, often taking Soviet officers for protection."
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/berlin/pdf/literature/Anon_WomaninBerlin.pdf

"They Raped Every German Female From Eight to Eighty"
Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed new book about the fall of Berlin, on a massive war crime committed by the victorious Red Army.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11

Silence Broken on Red Army Rapes in Germany
"The American premiere of the German film A Woman in Berlin and a groundbreaking university study on German rape vicitms are bringing new attention to an issue long considered a taboo in German society: the mass rape of women by Soviet Red Army soldiers after the fall of Hitler's Third Reich."
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106687768

IN PICTURES: How German Women Suffered Largest Mass Rape in History by Soviets
"In his book, Zapotoczny said that even female Russian soldiers did not disapprove of the rapes, some finding it amusing."
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/03/11/PICTURES-The-largest-mass-rape-in-history.html

Remembering Rape: Divided Social Memory and the Red Army in Hungary 1944-1945 by James Mark
"After Berlin, the women of Budapest suffered in greater numbers than those of any other Central or Eastern European capital."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3600834?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Red Army Troops Raped Even Russian Women as They Freed Them From Camps
"But he [Beevor] admits that he was 'shaken to the core' to discover that Russian and Polish women and girls liberated from concentration camps were also violated. 'That completely undermined the notion that the soldiers were using rape as a form of revenge against the Germans,' he said."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1382565/Red-Army-troops-raped-even-Russian-women-as-they-freed-them-from-camps.html

The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
"During the Second World War, tragic scenes like those were commonplace, as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin moved around entire populations like pieces on a chessboard, seeking to reshape the demographic profile of Europe according to their own preferences. What was different about the deportation of Loch and his fellow passengers, however, was that it took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet Union, nearly two years after the declaration of peace."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-European-Atrocity-You/132123