Miriam Gebhardt — When the Soldiers Came: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
- ISBN: 978-5-8243-2222-4
- BBK: 63.3(0)6
- UDC: 94(100)"654"
- Author: Miriam Gebhardt
- Translated from German by: M. A. Elizarieva
- Publisher: Political Encyclopedia
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 229
- Binding: Hardcover
- Format: 60×90/16
- Weight: 336 g
- Price: 477 rubles
The soldiers who liberated Germany from National Socialism at the
end of the Second World War also inflicted further suffering on many German women. Across the country, countless girls and women, as well as a
number of men, became victims of sexual violence. Drawing on new
historical sources, Miriam Gebhardt reconstructs for the first time the
scale of this violence during the final phase of the war and the
occupation that followed.
The book also contains references to Vladimir Gelfand and his diary
of 1941–1946, including passages concerning his service in the
Red Army, the approach to Berlin, encounters with German civilians,
relations between Soviet soldiers and German women, and the
contradictory mixture of revenge, hatred, attraction and personal
feeling recorded in his diary.
© Political Encyclopedia, 2018
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