![]() In communist East Germany, where the Soviet Union was hailed as friend and protector, the dark days of postwar rape and abuse were forgotten in West Germany they were locked away among family secrets. It was the crime that no one talked about. Within days of the occupation she had been raped several times by Red Army soldiers, one of many hundreds of thousands of German women abused in this way. She began to scribble it in a dusty cellar on Friday Ap– Hitler’s birthday, the last before his suicide ten days later. The film is based on a diary written by the German journalist Marta Hillers. ![]() The hidden horror of those months is about to be revealed in a new German film, A Woman in Berlin, that is likely to shock the nation, stir resentment against the Russians and provoke a debate about morality in war. It was the command given by Russian soldiers as they prowled Berlin and other bombed-out postwar German cities, searching for women to rape. The gruff phrase “Komm Frau!� – Come, woman! – still sends shivers down the spines of elderly Germans. ![]() German war film A Woman in Berlin opens old wounds over Red Army rapes ![]()
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