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The rape of Berlin - BBC News. Image copyright. ALAMYThe USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 7.
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But there is another story - of mass rapes by Soviet soldiers of German women in the dying days of the war. Some readers may find this story disturbing.
Dusk is falling in Treptower Park on the outskirts of Berlin and I am looking up at a statue dramatically outlined against a lilac sky. Twelve metres (4. Soviet soldier grasping a sword in one hand and a small German girl in the other, and stamping on a broken swastika. This is the final resting place for 5,0. Soviet troops who fell in the Battle of Berlin between 1. April and 2 May 1.
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The colossal proportions of the monument reflect the scale of the sacrifice. At the top of a long flight of steps, you can peer into the base of the statue, which is lit up like a religious shrine. An inscription saying that the Soviet people saved European civilisation from fascism catches my eye. But some call this memorial the Tomb of the Unknown Rapist. Stalin's troops assaulted an uncounted number of women as they fought their way to the German capital, though this was rarely mentioned after the war in Germany - West or East - and is a taboo subject in Russia even today. The Russian media regularly dismiss talk of the rapes as a Western myth, though one of many sources that tells the story of what happened is a diary kept by a young Soviet officer.
Image copyright. Vitaly Gelfand Vladimir Gelfand, a young Jewish lieutenant from central Ukraine, wrote with extraordinary frankness from 1. Soviet military's ban on diaries, which were seen as a security risk. In February 1. 94. Gelfand was stationed by the Oder River dam, preparing for the final push on Berlin, and he describes how his comrades surrounded and overpowered a battalion of women fighters.
Our soldiers suggest stabbing them through their genitals but I would just execute them. Gelfand was whirling around on a bicycle by the River Spree, the first time he'd ever ridden one, when he came across a group of German women carrying suitcases and bundles. Image copyright. Vitaly Gelfand In broken German, he asked them where they were going and why they had left their homes. They were old, some were covered in pimples and they all climbed on me and poked - no less than 2.
You can do whatever you want with me, but only you!'. And he saw evidence of rape. Nazi commanders were in fact so concerned about venereal disease that they established a chain of military brothels throughout the occupied territories. It's hard to find direct evidence of how the German soldiers treated Russian women - many victims never survived - but in the German- Russian Museum in Berlin, director Jorg Morre shows me a photograph taken in Crimea from a German soldier's personal wartime album. A woman's corpse is sprawled on the ground.
Her skirt is pulled up and the hands are in front of the face. We had discussions in the museum, should we show the photos - this is war, this is sexual violence under German policy in the Soviet Union. Not talking about war but showing it.
The hour of revenge has struck! They were sent by the NKVD, the secret police, to their boss, Lavrentiy Beria, in late 1. Image copyright. German- Russian Museum. Image caption. Soviet soldiers distribute food in Berlin, in May 1.
Timofey Melnik). As they await the arrival of the Red Army, they joke . But when the soldiers reach their basement and try to haul women out, they beg the diarist to use her Russian language skills and complain to the Soviet command. Braving the chaos on the rubble strewn streets, she manages to find a senior officer. He shrugs his shoulders. Despite Stalin's decree banning violence against civilians, he says, ? What did the Germans do to our women!' He is screaming: 'They took my sister and. She is brutally raped and nearly strangled.
The terrified neighbours, or . Everyone stares at me. I start yelling 'You pigs! Here they rape me twice in a row and you leave me lying like a piece of dirt!'.
The relationship between aggressor and victim becomes less violent, more transactional - and more ambiguous. She shares her bed with a senior officer from Leningrad with whom she discusses literature and the meaning of life. To some extent I'm sure I am. In addition, I like the major and the less he wants from me as a man, the more I like him as a person. Not surprisingly, she refused to allow the book to be republished until after her death. Seventy years after the end of the war, new research on sexual violence committed by all the Allied forces - American, British and French as well as Soviet - is still emerging.
But for years the subject slid under the official radar. Few reported it and even fewer would listen. Besides the social stigma, in East Germany it was sacrilegious to criticise Soviet heroes who had defeated fascism while across the Wall in the West, the guilt for Nazi crimes made German suffering unmentionable. The film had a cathartic effect in Germany and encouraged many women to come forward, including Ingeborg Bullert.
Image copyright. Dorothy Feaver. Image caption. Ingeborg: .
She was 2. 0 in 1. Berlin's Charlottenberg district. When the Soviet assault on the city began, like the woman diarist, she took refuge in the cellar of her building. I thought I would die, that they would kill me. Image copyright. Ingeborg Bullert.
Image caption. Ingeborg: . Ingeborg recalls that women between the ages of 1. The most often quoted number is a staggering 1. Berlin and two million on German territory. That figure - hotly debated - was extrapolated from scant surviving medical records. In a former munitions factory which now houses the State Archive, Martin Luchterhand shows me an armful of blue cardboard folders.
These contain abortion records dated July to October 1. Neukolln, just one of Berlin's 2. Abortions were illegal in Germany according to Article 2.
Luchterhand says . The files contain over 1,0. In childish round handwriting, one girl testifies that she was assaulted in the living room of her home in front of her parents. We will probably never know the true scale of the rapes. Soviet military tribunals and other sources remain classified. The Russian parliament recently passed a law which says that anyone who denigrates Russia's record in World War Two could face fines and up to five years in prison. Vera Dubina, a young historian at the University of Humanities in Moscow, says she knew nothing of the rapes until a scholarship took her to Berlin.
She later wrote a paper on the subject but struggled to get it published. That's why first- hand accounts are so valuable - from those who brave the subject now, in their old age, and from those younger voices who put pencil to paper on the spot. Vitaly Gelfand, son of the Red Army diarist Vladimir Gelfand, doesn't deny that many Soviet soldiers showed great bravery and sacrifice in World War Two - but that's not the whole story, he says. Recently Vitaly did an interview on Russian radio, which triggered some anti- Semitic trolling on social media, saying the diary's a fake and he should clear off to Israel (he has in fact lived in Berlin for the last 2.
Yet he is hoping the diary will be published in Russia later this year. Parts of it have been translated into German and Swedish. We can't move forward until we look back..