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The web page covers the mass rapes of women by Soviet troops in Germany during and after World War II. It estimates the number of victims, the motives and consequences of the rapes, and the Soviet and Allied responses.
Herta Oberheuser was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg "Doctors' trial" and served 10 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
Learn about the role and status of women in Nazi Germany, from the exclusion of women from political and academic life to the promotion of motherhood and wifehood. Explore the historical and social factors that shaped women's experiences under Nazism, and the exceptions and resistances that challenged the regime.
The Wehrmacht, the German armed forces during World War II, committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, rape, looting, and genocide. The article examines the creation, motives, orders, and crimes of the Wehrmacht, as well as the controversies and debates surrounding them.
This article explores the sexual abuse and discrimination of Jewish men and women by the Nazi regime and its allies during World War II. It covers the origins, motivations, stereotypes, and erasure of this violence, as well as its impact on survivors and history.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a German overseer in the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. She was executed by hanging on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
It is well known that brutal mass rapes were committed against German women; both during and after World War II. According to some estimates, over 100,000 women were raped by Soviet soldiers in Berlin both during and after the Battle of Berlin. [32] The phrase "from eight to 80" was used to describe potential victims of Soviet mass-rape.
Hermine Braunsteiner was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany, where she was sentenced to life imprisonment.