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Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War / Miriam Gebhardt ; translated by Nick Somers.
Van Pelt Library D810.W7 G3913 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gebhardt, Miriam, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Als die Soldaten kamen. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Rape--Germany--History--20th century.
- Rape.
- Rape victims--Germany--History--20th century.
- Rape victims.
- Soldiers--Sexual behavior--History--20th century.
- Soldiers.
- Women--Crimes against--Germany--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Single mothers--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Single mothers.
- Armed Forces.
- History.
- Diplomatic and consular service.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Soldiers--Sexual behavior.
- Soviet Union--Armed Forces--Germany (East).
- Soviet Union.
- Germany (East).
- United States--Armed Forces--Foreign service--Germany--History--20th century.
- United States.
- France--Armed Forces--Germany--History--20th century.
- France.
- Germany--History--1945-1955.
- Germany.
- Armed Forces--Foreign service.
- Single mothers--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gebhardt, Miriam, author. Crimes unspoken.
- ISBN:
- 9781509511204
- 1509511202
- OCLC:
- 949669612
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