Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
Record details
- ISBN: 1509511202
- ISBN: 9781509511204
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Physical Description:
vi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, [2017]
Content descriptions
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 -- Year on -- Extracts from police reports -- 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. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
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