Most of the sex workers rationalized their doubts away.
Most never met their fathers and many of these children were never adopted and remained in long-term public care The enemy Germans had been so thoroughly dehumanized that depravity and abuse by the victors was accepted.
But the martial instincts of the French must never be doubted.
No one will ever know how many women were raped, but doctors' estimates run as high as 100,000 for the city of Berlin alone, their ages ranging from 10 to 70.
By April 1945, 500 rape cases per week were being reported to the Judge Advocate General of American forces in Europe and those were only the reported rapes in limited areas.
They have been punished, but yet not enough! How did you describe the project to them? Once they arrived, they were paraded naked in front of the camp officials who would select favorites, promising lighter work in exchange for sex.