One woman, born in 1932, described nearly 40 years later what happened when Soviet soldiers entered the air-raid shelter in which she, then a 13-year-old girl, had sought refuge:
And they took me out with them. And no I always thought, because my mother, she also never explained things to us, because I once asked her what rape is, then she said: then people are shot… And I just said: ‘now go ahead and shoot, now go ahead and shoot’. But in any case after the thing [i.e. the rape] I had to go back into the cellar. And that was terrible for me to see the people again… And then they called me out again. Then I knew what they wanted. And I simply sat down… I said: ‘I want to go to my mummy. I want to go to my mummy.’ I said that non-stop until he let me go.
Source:
Bessel, Richard. “The Last Days of the Reich.” Germany 1945: From War to Peace. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 2009. 117-18. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Interview quoted in Hoerning, ‘Frauen als Kriegsbeute’, p. 333.
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