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Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
- Title
- Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War / Miriam Gebhardt ; translated by Nick Somers.
- Author
- Gebhardt, Miriam
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA : Polity [2017]
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Details
- Description
- vi, 252 pages; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Als die Soldaten kamen. English
- Alternative Title
- Als die Soldaten kamen.
- Rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
- Subjects
- United States
- Women
- France
- Women > Crimes against
- Rape victims
- Rape
- Soldiers > Sexual behavior
- Soviet Union
- Germany
- Armed Forces
- Women > Crimes against > Germany > History > 20th century
- Single mothers > Social conditions
- Germany (East)
- Soldiers > Sexual behavior > History > 20th century
- Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
- Soviet Union > Armed Forces > Germany (East)
- Armed Forces > Foreign service
- History
- Rape victims > Germany > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Germany
- United States > Armed Forces > Foreign service > Germany > History > 20th century
- Massenvergewaltigung
- Frau
- World War (1939-1945)
- Single mothers > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century
- France > Armed Forces > Germany > History > 20th century
- Soldat
- Kriegsende
- Allied Forces
- 1900-1999
- Germany > History > 1945-1955
- Rape > Germany > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- Seventy years too late -- Wrong victims? -- How many were affected -- Sexual aggression against men -- A word about method -- Berlin and the east -- chronicle of a calamity foretold -- The great fear -- The Red Army comes -- Berlin -- Year on -- Extracts from police reports -- A different perspective -- South Germany -- who will protect us from the Americans? -- No one's time -- Moderate indignation -- A "feeling of great insecurity among our soldiers" -- Discussion -- A "sexual conquest of Europe"? -- Unbroken assertion of power by the occupiers -- Parallels and differences -- Pregnant, sick, ostracized -- approaches to the victims -- Victims twice over -- Fraternization -- The abortion problem -- No one's children -- "The other victims are also taken care of" -- First the French, then the public authorities -- "I love this child as much as the others" -- The long shadow -- The effects of the experience of violence -- The myth of female invulnerability -- "Anonymous" and the censorship of memory -- Duties of loyalty -- First feminist protests -- Helke Sander's "BeFreier" and the German victim debate -- The past today.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3369
- ISBN
- 9781509511204 (hardback)
- 1509511202 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2016021691
- OCLC
- 949669612
- Author
- Gebhardt, Miriam, author.
- Title
- Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War / Miriam Gebhardt ; translated by Nick Somers.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA : Polity [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3369