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Russia's Rape of Germany

Why didn't we learn this in history class?  Relations between Russia and Germany have not been good since Vladimir Putin's nationalist sabre-rattling this summer, but they are about to get a whole lot worse. A new film about to be released in Germany will force both countries to re-examine part of their recent history that each would much prefer to forget. Yet it is right that the ghastly truth should finally be acknowledged. The movie, A Woman In Berlin, is based on the diary of the German journalist Marta Hillers and depicts the horror of the Red Army's capture of the capital of the Third Reich in April and May 1945. Marta was one of two million German women who were raped by soldiers of the Red Army  -  in her case, as in so many others, several times over...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 13, 2009 (boomark / email).