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As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany by soldiers from all advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. [1]
The historiography of "ordinary" German women in Nazi Germany has changed significantly over time; studies done just after World War II tended to see them as additional victims of Nazi oppression. However, during the late 20th century, historians began to argue that German women were able to influence the course of the regime and even the war.
The crimes of women in early modern Germany (Oxford University Press, 1999). Ruble, Alexandria N. Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany ((University of Toronto Press, 2023) online scholarly review of this book; Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing women for war: German and American propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton University Press ...
The sisters were sent to different forced labor camps in Germany during World War II and spent years afterward looking for each other. Barbara was offered the chance to leave Germany and return to ...
Trümmerfrauen at work, Berlin. Trümmerfrau (German pronunciation: [ˈtʁʏmɐˌfʁaʊ̯] ⓘ; literally translated as rubble woman) were women who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria.
After the war, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere in the 1960s. [ 90 ] Many women filled staff roles at the heart of the Nazi system, including minor posts in the Nazi concentration camps . [ 91 ]
After the collapse of the Third Reich, women were gradually relieved of their new duties by returning prisoners of war. [25] Women who served the country during the war as volunteers or conscripts had to face the repercussions of their actions, which affected their careers and personal lives. [26] Feminism was virtually non-existent from 1945 ...
Abortions were denied to the majority of German women, while coercive abortions were violently imposed on Roma and Jewish women. Nazi sexual politics harnessed two competing tendencies, playing into either when politically expedient: conservative currents of consternation and concern with sex on the one hand, and the greater historical trend of ...