"Frau, komm (Woman, come)," the Soviet soldier’s pidgin-German command to females he encountered, became the words every woman in Berlin, from seventeen to seventy, knew and dreaded.

The post-war Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergaren was known, with typical dark Berlin wit, as the "Tomb of the Unknown Rapist." The two million abortions a year carried out in occupied Germany in the immediate post-war period, mostly in the Soviet Zone, witnessed unimaginable suffering, as did the rocketing incidence of venereal disease and the 150,000 to 200,000 "Russian babies" born as the result of the rapes.

–– Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall, 2006, Harper Collins, New York, pp. 32

The Cannibal
of Ma'arrat

Women of Berlin

Jassy Pogrom

The Original
Untermenschen

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