Two million German women were savagely raped and tortured at the tail end of WWII. No one has yet apologized for these horrific war crimes. Why not?

“In the German race there is nothing but evil. Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill!”
— Ilya Ehrenberg, Jewish propagandist for the Stalin regime

This 6000-word article consists of two parts. Part 1, by Lasha Darkmoon, sets the scene and provides many factual details about rape atrocities against German women by Allied soldiers in the 1944-1947 period. Part 2, by JA Sexton, is a review of Thomas Goodrich’s Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany (1944-1947). This brings to life in vivid detail all the horrors defeated Germany had to go through at the hands of the victorious Allies.

If you have a delicate constitution and want to protect your mind from images of extreme terror, images bordering on the grotesquely obscene, please read no further. If, on the other hand, you have an appetite for the gruesome truth and wish to take a peek into the Devil’s cauldron, then by all means read on.

Part 1: The Devil’s Cauldron
by Lasha Darkmoon


One German woman came to her priest and broke down in tears. “Father, I can’t go on living! Thirty of them raped me last night.” (Goodrich, p.158).The German clergy were only too aware of the rape and mass murder of Catholic nuns, many of them bedridden geriatric women. One of these priests writes in his diary:

“The girls, women and nuns were raped incessantly for hours on end, the soldiers standing in queues, the officers at the head of the queues, in front of their victims.

During the first night many of the nuns and women were raped as many as fifty times.The Russians knocked them down, kicked them, beat them on the head and in the face with the butt-end of their revolvers and rifles.

The same dreadful scenes were enacted in the hospitals, homes for the aged, and other such institutions. Even nuns who were seventy and eighty years old and were ill and bedridden were raped and ill-treated by these barbarians. (Ibid. p.84)

The Americans and the Brits knew all these atrocities were going on but did nothing to stop them. They stood by and saw it all happening, cruel accomplices to crime. Indeed, many of them joined in the bloodbath of sadistic sexuality: Americans, Brits, French, and French Moroccans in particular.

“Staggered by what he had seen and heard, a German officer tried desperately to make sense of the disaster; to understand the minds of men ‘who find . . . pleasure in raping the same woman over and over, dozens of times, even while other women are standing near.’” (Ibid. p.93)

Inflicting savage sex wounds on German women, including their children in the presence of their parents, was one the perks of war for these coldhearted killers. “Our fellows were so sex-starved,” a Soviet major told a British journalist at the time, “that they often raped old women of sixty, seventy or even eighty — much to these grandmothers’ surprise, if not downright delight.”

This cynical throwaway comment is indicative of the surreal atmosphere of war fever that possessed so many otherwise sane and well-balanced people at that time: the bizarre idea that an 80-year-old German grandmother should actually be flattered and pleased to be raped.

Several German women recorded how even Soviet servicewomen watched and laughed while they were being gang-raped.

While the idea that the Russians were largely to blame for this orgy of mass rape cannot be denied, the overall picture is more nuanced. “There were Russian freebooters who drank and raped quite shamelessly,” British historian Anthony Beevor tells us, “but there were also idealistic, austere communists and members of the Russian intelligentsia who were appalled by such behaviour.”

“Beria and Stalin, back in Moscow, knew perfectly well what was going on from a number of detailed reports….Marshal Rokossovsky issued order No 006 in an attempt to direct “the feelings of hatred at fighting the enemy on the battlefield.” It appears to have had little effect. The commander of one rifle division is said to have “personally shot a lieutenant who was lining up a group of his men before a German woman spreadeagled on the ground”. But either officers were involved themselves, or the lack of discipline made it too dangerous to restore order over drunken soldiers armed with submachine guns.” — Historian Anthony Beevor, acclaimed author of “Berlin: The Downfall 1945.”

Drink of every variety, Beevor discloses, including dangerous chemicals seized from laboratories and workshops, was a major factor in the violence.

“It seems as if Soviet soldiers needed alcoholic courage to attack a woman. But then, all too often, they drank too much and, unable to complete the act, used the bottle instead with appalling effect. A number of victims were mutilated obscenely.”

According to Beevor, estimates of rape victims from Berlin’s two main hospitals ranged from 95,000 to 130,000. One doctor calculated that out of approximately 100,000 women raped in Berlin, roughly 10,000 died as a result. Mostly from suicide. The death rate was thought to have been much higher among the 1.4 million estimated victims in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. “Altogether at least two million German women are thought to have been raped,” Beevor concludes, “and a substantial minority, if not a majority, appear to have suffered multiple rape.” (See here)

Note that we are talking about 2 million different women being raped, not about two million rapes. Given that women were often raped several times a day—sometimes 60-70 times according to one authority—the total number of rapes could well have numbered over 20 million.

Since the Red Army included a substantial number of Jews in it, many in supervisory positions, there appears to have been an unwritten rule that Jewish women should be exempt from rape. After all, the Bolshevik regime whose forces were carrying out most of these rapes was known to be an essentially Jewish regime, with the cheka or secret police and other top government functionaries being predominantly Jewish. There is a curious account, however, of one German Jewess being raped by Soviet troops. When this was pointed out to the rapists as some kind of anomaly — “Hey, don’t rape her, she’s Jewish!” — the brutalized soldiers are reported to have sneered, “So what? A woman is a woman. Frau ist Frau.”

Here are some relevant facts which the reader might wish to bear in mind when reading JA Sexton’s chilling review of Goodrich’s Hellstorm that follows in Part 2 of this article:

These acts of sexual violence against German women, described by Beevor as “the greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history,” took place mostly in 1944-1945 as the Western Allies and the Red Army fought their way into the Third Reich. They began in October 1944 and reached their climax in 1945, continuing until the winter of 1947-1948.

This is chilling. I can't even begin to imagine this