Miriam Gebhardt - Crimes Unspoken - The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Opladen

Otterfing

Oxford Companion to World War II

P

Palling

Paris Agreements

patriarchy

Penzing bei Landsberg

personal testimonies

police see German police; military police

Polish soldiers

political alliances

political appropriation

political representatives

Pomerania

post-traumatic stress

power

pregnancy

as result of rape

at time of rape

see also abortions; occupation children

priests see clergymen

prisoners of war

propaganda, American

German

Soviet

prosecutions

prostitution

psychological effects

psychological therapy

punishments, for rapists

R

racism

rape, definitions of

rape of nation metaphor

rape victims

abortions

blaming of

children resulting from rape

compared with other victims of war

compensation claims

coping strategies

credibility

cross-examination of

defensive strategies

elderly

estimated numbers of

historians’ treatment of

male

murder of

personal testimonies

political appropriation of experiences

pregnant as result of rape

pregnant at time of rape

psychological effects upon

resistance by

secondary victimization of

venereal disease infections

silence about

silence of

social exclusion of

suicide of

transgenerational consequences

young

Reckwitz, Andreas

reformatories

refugees

see also expulsion; flight

Reich-Ranicki, Marcel

Reichling, Gerhard

relativization

resistance

resistance fighters

reunification

revenge

Roberts, Mary Louise

Romania

Rosenthal, Hans

Rössel

Russian soldiers see Soviet soldiers

‘Russians in Berlin’ articles

Rwanda

Ryan, Cornelius

S

Sagan, Günter

Sander, Helke

Satjukow, Silke

scapegoating

Schausbreitner, Johann

Schellenberg bei Salzburg

Schieder, Theodor

Schiml, Alois

Schmidt-Harzbach, Ingrid

Schmittingen, Peter

Schönberg

Schönlanke

Schröder, Gerhard

Schulze, Eva

Schwarzer, Alice

secondary victimization

Segmüller, Albin

self-sacrifice

Sellwethen

Senegalese soldiers

see also colonial soldiers

sentences see punishments, for rapists

Sergeevic, Boris

sexual morality

shaming rituals

Silesia

Simonov, Konstantin

Sino-Japanese War

Sittlichkeit

slave labourers

social class

social exclusion

Soltau

South Württemberg-Hohenzollern

Soviet Control Commission

Soviet Military Administration

Soviet soldiers

‘Asiatic’ and ‘Mongol’ soldiers

billeting of

children fathered by

compared with American soldiers

diaries and letters

discipline and training

and the fall of Berlin

fear of

flight from see expulsion; flight; refugees

and fraternization

internal military structures

motives for raping

murders committed by

numbers stationed in Germany

propaganda about

propaganda aimed at

rapes committed by

reputation of

stereotyping of

and venereal disease

Spiegel

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad

Stargardt, Nicholas

starvation

Stefanskirchen

Stein, Bertram von der

Steinkirchen an der Ilm

stereotyping

sterilization

Stuttgart

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Sudetenland

suicides

syphilis

Syria

T

Tage des Überlebens (Boveri)

Tagesspiegel

Taufkirchen an der Vils

Telegraf

Terry, James

Thiele, Hannelore

Thuringia

Tittmoning

transgenerational effects

trauma

Traunstein

‘Trümmerfrauen’

Tunisian soldiers

see also colonial soldiers

Two Plus Four Agreement

U

unemployment

University of Greifswald

Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (TV programme)

Unterstein bei Berchtesgaden

Uris, Leon

V

vagrancy

Vasilevic, Pavel

Veit, Alfons

venereal disease

‘Veronika Dankeschöns’

victim discourse

victims see rape victims

Vienna

Villingen

Villinger, Werner

Vladimirovna, Anna

Volkmann-Steinhardt, Gela

W

Waldherr, Kaspar

Wall, Georg

‘war childhood’ research

Wasserburg

wealth

welfare homes

welfare services

Welzer, Harald

West Prussia

Westphalia

What Soldiers Do (Roberts)

Woldenberg

Wolfratshausen

Woman in Berlin, A (anon.)

Würzburg

Y

young victims

Yugoslavia

Zaun, Inge

Ziegler, Walter

Zietlow

Zipfel, Gaby

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First published in German as Als die Soldaten kamen. Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs , © Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich, Germany, 2015

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1123-5

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gebhardt, Miriam, author.

Title: Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War / Miriam Gebhardt.

Other titles: Als die Soldaten kamen. English | Rape of German women at the end of the Second World War

Description: Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016021691 (print) | LCCN 2016022335 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509511204 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509511228 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509511235 (Epub)

Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945–-Women--Germany. | Rape--Germany--History--20th century. | Rape victims--Germany--History--20th century. | Soldiers--Sexual behaviour--History--20th century. | Women--Crimes against--Germany--History--20th century. | Single mothers--Germany--Social conditions--20th century. | Soviet Union--Armed Forces--Germany (East) | United States--Armed Forces--Foreign service--Germany--History--20th century. | France--Armed Forces--Germany--History--20th century. | Germany--History--1945–1955.

Classification: LCC D810.W7 G3913 2016 (print) | LCC D810.W7 (ebook) | DDC 940.53082/0943–-dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021691

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