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The rape of Berlin
The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 70 years ago is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. 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.
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The wholesale rape of German women is no secret. The German Army campaign of scorched earth in Russia led to equal brutality when the Russians turned the tide. There were many stories of Western Allied Army rape, though seemingly not on the scale of the Russians.