A million women were raped by Allied soldiers in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a new books claims. ‘When The Soldiers Came,’ by historian Miriam Gebhardt, is hailed as the definitive account of the treatment meted out to the defeated women of Nazi Germany which they remained silent about for decades out of shame and humiliaton. 'At the very least 860,000 women and girls - and also men and young boys - were raped by the occupying Allied soldiers and their helpers. It happened everywhere,' begins the book. A new book claims Allied troops raped German women during the Second World War by manipulating them with gifts of chocolate and cigarettes. Above, a soldier takes a photograph of a German woman'When The Soldiers Came' claims Allied troops raped one million womenChildren, men and young boys were also abused by soldiers, it claimsUntil now it was thought only the Stalin's Red Army raped German womenBut author insists she has spoken to some who can attest to the abuseThere was a misconception all women traded sex for coveted goodsBut western soldiers took advantage of power to rape, says the author
She said the false impression grew up after the war that _ women gave themselves to western soldiers because they brought with them things they desperately needed - nylons, food, cigarettes, coffee.