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Did (Western) Allied troops rape 285,000 German women? [tr ed]
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 26, 2015 | Guy Walters

Posted on 03/26/2015 8:34:12 AM PDT by C19fan

There was no doubt that Private Blake W. Mariano of the 191st Tank Battalion was a brave man. As part of the American Army's 45th Infantry Division, he had killed many Germans as he fought through Africa, Italy and southern France, before finally, in March 1945, he and his Sherman tank had crossed the Rhine into Germany. By April 15, 1945, Mariano had been away from his home in New Mexico for nearly three years. A father of three, the 29-year-old was divorced, although he did have a girlfriend in England.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: africa; allies; americanarmy; battalion; england; france; germans; germany; hitler; infantry; italy; newmexico; rape; rhine; tank; unitedstates; war; wwii
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This Jezebel feminist's number is as credible as the supposed 1 in 5 college co-eds are raped. The Red Army that is a different story.
1 posted on 03/26/2015 8:34:12 AM PDT by C19fan
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After EVERYTHING Germany subjected the world to, I sincerely think rape would have been a predictable act of the Allies since the Allies lost so much in just fighting in the war. Throw in the Holocaust and suffering of civilians and of course, the cost of war, Germany had it coming. THEY LET Hitler and his band of crazies take over and willingly participated in the rounding up and shipping off of Jews and participated in euthanasia.

Russia lost twenty million defending their Motherland and go figure, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.


2 posted on 03/26/2015 8:37:45 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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No doubt there were some rapes, but this huge figure sounds like typical feminist drivel.


3 posted on 03/26/2015 8:39:52 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan

During WWII there were 9 Red Ball Express drivers who would stop their trucks and rape French women. Eisenhower learned about it and had them hanged. There must have been rapes of German women by U.S. soldiers, but I doubt that they were in the vast numbers the feminists are using to disparage our military in WWII.


4 posted on 03/26/2015 8:40:04 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To pretend that such Rapes by Western Troops didn't happen at all is doing a disserves to the History.

Every Army under the sun has done so since the Begging of Time and later hated to admit it.

However, to say it was a sanction top down effort (unlike OTHERS) isn't something that happened either.

The Largest Human Migration in History was the Flight from East Prussia and they wouldn't be doing that if they Feared the Americans more than the Soviets.

The Americans Would Disarm the Germans.

The British Might Shoot them.

The Russians would ship them off to Siberia, or Worse.

5 posted on 03/26/2015 8:40:50 AM PDT by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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I have little doubt this sort of thing happened a lot more than people think. So? That is not news. War is hell.

Only little kids think soldiers on either side are pure.


6 posted on 03/26/2015 8:40:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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This Jezebel feminist’s number is as credible as the supposed 1 in 5 college co-eds are raped.


I thought it was six out of five...


7 posted on 03/26/2015 8:42:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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“Did (Western) Allied troops rape 285,000 German women?”

*shrugs* I’m sure people were too busy dodging German women snipers, anti-aircraft gun operators, and Panzerfaust shooters to count.


8 posted on 03/26/2015 8:43:08 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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This is pure agitprop from the Rooskies.
9 posted on 03/26/2015 8:47:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Enterprise

I can’t remember where I read it, but it was about German women who committed suicide rather than face the Soviet soldiers who had invaded Germany at the end of the war.


10 posted on 03/26/2015 8:50:10 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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Well the Russians were allied with the west ......


11 posted on 03/26/2015 8:50:25 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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Because there were 200,000 pregnancies among single women in the American occupied zone, she’s decided they were all rapes.

By the Spring of 46’, the official ration in the American zone was only 1275 calories. In some places it was only 700.

They were trading sex for food.


12 posted on 03/26/2015 8:52:59 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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You are correct. Many German women committed suicide. Some committed suicide before they could be raped, and others committed suicide after they were raped.


13 posted on 03/26/2015 8:53:18 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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I’m sure it happened on occasion but it certainly wasn’t sanctioned.

The number of pregnancies doesn’t mean much especially considering the fact that the nazis had been encouraging unwed motherhood all along.


14 posted on 03/26/2015 8:56:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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How did she determine that the precise number of 285,000 rapes occurred? By actual count? By a random sample? Stratified sample? We live in Western Civilization where crazies rise to notice and even celebrity status. Rape claims abound which are often false. I don’t believe the claim.


15 posted on 03/26/2015 8:59:33 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: cripplecreek; Enterprise; CorporateStepsister; SkyDancer; Steve_Seattle
I’m sure it happened on occasion but it certainly wasn’t sanctioned.

Unlike some Others I could Name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany#Soviet_Military

16 posted on 03/26/2015 9:02:58 AM PDT by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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To: CorporateStepsister
After EVERYTHING Germany subjected the world to, I sincerely think rape would have been a predictable act of the Allies since the Allies lost so much in just fighting in the war.

Incredible, incredible for thinking that raping wives and daughters and sisters and mothers is payback, and incredible for thinking that good American men can just call it up at will when they are angry at the enemy.

One has to be evil to rape.

17 posted on 03/26/2015 9:04:33 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: SkyDancer

“Well the Russians were allied with the west ....”

Of those 250,000 i would wager over... well over 50% were from the russian side.

Also are they counting sex for food and supplies as rape?


18 posted on 03/26/2015 9:05:54 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Snickering Hound

They were dating nice, attractive, American men who treated women like princesses.

American men have always appealed to women, even in Britain during the war.


19 posted on 03/26/2015 9:06:44 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: KC_Lion

Knowing the way Stalin did things I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he didn’t have orders filtering down the line to do things like that.


20 posted on 03/26/2015 9:08:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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