Allies raped a million German women after the war

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In her new book, a well-known historian in Germany claims that in the western zone of occupation, the Allies raped a million German women. Until now, information has been spread in the West that the soldiers of the Red Army raped German women.

However, the author insists that there are people who can testify precisely to the atrocities of Western soldiers, who preferred force to achieve what they wanted.

A million women were raped by Allied soldiers in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

According to Jewish historian Miriam Gebhardt, the arrival of the Allied forces was perceived as settling scores with the women of defeated Nazi Germany, who for many decades, out of shame, kept silent about the humiliations they had experienced. “At least 860,000 women and girls, as well as men and boys, were raped by the soldiers of the allied occupation forces and their assistants. It happened all over the place,”the book begins.

Until now, rumors spread that the Red Army, during the offensive against Germany, committed massive outrages against tens of thousands of women, many of whom committed suicide.

However, as it turned out, the main criminals were the soldiers of the US and British Army. Miriam Gebhard interviewed the victims of the atrocities, who spoke about the ordeals that have befallen them at the hands of British and American soldiers.

The famous slogan of that time was: "It took the Americans six years to defeat the German troops, but only one day and a bar of chocolate in order to conquer the German women." But collaboration in the bedroom was not always voluntary, Gebhardt writes.

After the war, the false impression was created that there was no rape in the western part of the occupied country, but only some kind of prostitution. But in fact, countless women were raped by American and British soldiers, who believed they could now do whatever they wanted.

However, Miriam Gebhart is modestly silent about who was mainly engaged in violence and revenge. Here is what the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade from the British Army wrote, as well as the former "Jewish partisans":

Writer Khanokh Bartov, on the mood in the Jewish brigade: “A little: a thousand burned down houses. Five hundred killed. Hundreds of raped women … That's why we're here. Not for Roosevelt's freedoms. Not for the British Empire. Not for Stalin's sake. We're here to avenge the blood. One wild Jewish revenge. Once, like the Tatars. Like the Ukrainians. Like the Germans. All of us, all good, beautiful-minded boys … We will all enter one city and burn it down, street by street, house by house, German by German. Why only we should remember Auschwitz. Let them also remember one city that we will destroy …"

Tsivya Lyubetkin: “We knew only one thing: if there are people and if we have enough strength, we only need this: revenge! We were not in the mood to build, but only in the desire to destroy, to destroy what we can, what we can!”.

Aba Kovner: “The destruction was not around us. It was primarily within us. We did not imagine that we can, and that we have the right, to return to life, come to Palestine, create families, get up to work in the morning and thus settle scores with the Germans."

Pasha Raikhman (Itzhak Avidov), a bandit from Rovno: “It just happened. We were sitting with glasses, and this idea flew out, and suddenly it was not in the air, but on the table. We saw that this idea unites us all. Everyone wanted to take revenge. Someone suggested killing Germans by the millions by poisoning drinking water in German cities.

Poldek Wasserman (Yehuda Maimon), a raketer from the Krakow ghetto and future captain of the second rank of the Israeli Navy, joined the Nakam organized crime group in Bucharest in March 1945: "Our ideology was to kill six million as revenge of the Jewish people to the Germans."

(John Sack, "Eye For An Eye - The Story of Jews Who Sought Revenge For the Holocaust")

They took revenge not only on the soldiers. The testimonies of women and Bavarian priests collected by Gebhardt, data from archives and statistics on children born to unmarried women during the occupation, shattered the fables of "cool guys" from overseas. The historian believes that the Americans in their actions were guided by motives of revenge and "were angry because of their senseless desire to defend their country to the very end." In addition, they were enraged by the rather high level of welfare in Germany. And the chauvinist fantasies of American soldiers were also fueled by propaganda, according to which German women themselves dreamed of jumping into their bed.

At the same time, there is every reason to believe that the violence against the Germans was also a purposeful policy of the Allied command. According to Gebhardt, in some areas in southern Germany, cities and towns were handed over to the occupying American forces as victors for "three days and three nights," during which there were massive rapes.

ALLIES 'MASS VIOLENCE IN FRANCE AND ITALY

As a reminder, in 2013, the sensational book What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American Military in France during World War II by Professor Mary Roberts of the University of Vinsconsin, who noted in the foreword: “My book upsets the old myth about American soldiers who, by all accounts, they have always behaved well. Americans had sex everywhere and with everyone who was wearing a skirt."

Soldiers sent to another continent were promised an "erotic adventure", and it was this "mission" they carried out with great zeal. In addition, for the blacks and African tribes discriminated against in the United States, the European "adventure" has become a way to "take revenge on the whites."

In May 1944, the Allies - the forces of "democracy and equality" - finally succeeded in capturing Monte Cassino, in central Italy. The Allies included Moroccan troops. They were mediocre soldiers, but they had no equal in the killing of prisoners and in terms of the rape of the civilian population. On the night after the end of the Battle of Monte Cassino, a division of Moroccan soldiers - 12,000 Moroccans - withdrew from their camp and, like locusts, descended on a group of mountain villages in the vicinity of Monte Cassino. They raped all the women and girls they could find in these villages - their number is estimated at 3,000 women, ranging in age from 11 to 86 years. They killed 800 villager men trying to protect their women. They raped some women to such an extent that more than 100 of them died.

… Moroccan soldiers selected the most beautiful girls for gang rape and long lines of blacks lined up in front of each of them, waiting for their turn, while other Moroccans held the victims. Two sisters, 15 and 18 years old, were raped by over 200 Moroccans each. One of them died, the other spent the last 53 years in a psychiatric clinic. Moroccans raped in villages and young men.

William Luther Pierce, The Women of Monte Cassino

The study, based on the study of military archives not only in France, but also in the United States, helped to reveal the fact that violence and satisfaction of physiological needs were the main methods of the American military to "establish their power over the French."

And after the "charm of the liberators" finally passed, in 1951 the CIA conducted an experiment with the massive use of LSD on the inhabitants of the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, as a result of which 5 people died, and the remaining 500 residents were seized by an outbreak of mass madness.