[The following is in regards to sexual violence suffered by the German population during the early days of Soviet occupation at the end of World War II.]
Another, born on 1928, described what she experienced:
I counted them, there were eight Russians, yes… and I have to tell you, I did not cry, I didn’t do anything, I whimpered, yes, because I, back then one heard, rape and then a shot in the back of the head and I was incredibly afraid. Yes, and the first one, he had me quasi, they tore the clothes from my body, yes therefore I had nothing more on, nothing more at all… and the last one, he had me, and you know, I screamed, but afterwards I had no tears anymore, and the last one… then I thought how many more still are coming, and then I constantly thought and when this is over then there will be a shot in the back of the head anyway.
This, and not some heroic final struggle to inspire future generations, was the experience of tens of thousands of Berliners at the end of April 1945.
Source:
Bessel, Richard. “The Last Days of the Reich.” Germany 1945: From War to Peace. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 2009. 118. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Interview quoted in Hoerning, ‘Frauen als Kriegsbeute’, p. 334.
I'd prefer more light shed on this topic. Germany got it really bad after both world wars and what happened to their populace was horrific. They burned all the crops in Austria in fear there were german soldiers hiding in the corn fields and entire villages went hungry because of it. I know this because the old man who feeds squirrels with me is Austrian and tells me tidbits of his early life post WW2.