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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Door Miriam Gebhardt

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#425436-YD13
Titel
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
Auteur
Gebhardt, Miriam
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge : Polity
Jaar van uitgave
2017
ISBN10
1509511202
ISBN13
9781509511204
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original burgundy boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which continued long after the hostilities had ended. Discussion in recent years of the rape of German women committed at the end of the war has focused almost exclusively on the crimes committed by Soviet soldiers, but Gebhardt shows that this picture is misleading. Crimes were committed as much by the Western Allies – American, French and British – as by the members of the Red Army. Nor was the suffering limited to the immediate aftermath of the ... (Lees verder)war. Gebhardt powerfully recounts how raped women continued to be the victims of doctors, who arbitrarily granted or refused abortions, welfare workers, who put pregnant women in homes, and wider society, which even today prefers to ignore these crimes. Crimes Unspoken is the first historical account to expose the true extent of sexual violence in Germany at the end of the war, offering valuable new insight into a key period of 20th century history.
Pagina's
252
Conditie
Goed — Edge back cover dust jacket slightly damaged.
Prijs
€ 30,00

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