The systematic rape of as many as 80,000 women by the Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of the Nanking Massacre is an example of such atrocities . During World War II an estimated 200,000 Korean and Chinese women were forced into prostitution in Japanese military brothels , as so-called " comfort women " . French Moroccan troops known as Goumiers committed rapes and other war crimes after the Battle of Monte Cassino . '' ( See Marocchinate . ) '' French women in Normandy complained about rapes during the liberation of Normandy . Rapes were committed by Wehrmacht forces on Jewish women and girls during the Invasion of Poland in September 1939 ; they were also committed against Polish , Ukrainian , Belarusian and Russian women and girls during mass executions which were primarily carried out by the Selbstschutz units , with the assistance of Wehrmacht soldiers who were stationed in territory that was under the administration of the German military ; the rapes were committed against female captives before they were shot . Only one case of rape was prosecuted by a German court during the military campaign in Poland , and even then the German judge found the perpetrator guilty of '' Rassenschande '' ( committing a shameful act against his race as defined by the racial policy of Nazi Germany ) , rather than rape.Jewish women were particularly vulnerable to rape during The Holocaust
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