Couple hundred thousand German women were raped during the battle of Berlin.
So much rape during WWII! A French commander allowed his Moroccan troops to rape over 60,000 women outside Rome. It was the subject of the great novel “Two Women” and the wonderful movie.
German behavior in Russia was a bit rude as well.
My great-grandparents lived in Danzig from about 1890 until 1945. In 1945, the Soviets made them leave their house by sundown pretty much with the clothes on their backs. In their late 60s and early 70s, they walked back to Cologne where the family had lived until the 1890s. Fortunately, my grandfather had left in 1927 and took his young family to NY City. I never heard stories of my great-grandparents 700 mile march back to Cologne, but I know the rest of their lives in Cologne were awful. I can imagine it was a dreadful march with no clean water, scarce food, and the threat of death and rape everywhere every day. Great-grandfather died the year I was born, 1951.
“Couple hundred thousand German women were raped during the battle of Berlin.”
Thousands of German civilians were killed in revenge in some countries after the end of the war.