article_snippet: A million women were raped by Allied soldiers in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a new books claims.
article_snippet: When The Soldiers Came',’ by historian Miriam Gebhardt, is hailed as the definitive account of the treatment meted out to the defeated women of Germany Germany which they remained silent about for decades out of shame and humiliaton. '
article_snippet: 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.
article_snippet: A new book claims Allied troops raped German women during the Second World War by manipulating German women with gifts of chocolate and cigarettes.
article_snippet: Above, a soldier takes a photograph of a German woman .
article_snippet: Until now it was widely thought that only the Red Army, which advanced on Germany with rape as a weapon sanctioned by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, committed the mass rapes upon tens of thousands of women, many of whom committed suicide. '
article_snippet: A familiar slogan of the times was: 'It took six years for the Americans to struggle against the German armies but It only took a day and a slab of chocolate for the German armies to conquer German women.'
article_snippet: German author Miriam Gebhardt said the false impression grew up after the war that German women gave German women to western soldiers because German women brought with German women things German women desperately needed - nylons, food, cigarettes, coffee. '
article_snippet: But in fact countless women were raped, German author Miriam Gebhardt said, with soldiers believing soldiers could treat the as soldiers wanted after bearing coveted gifts. '
article_snippet: German author Miriam Gebhardt said in parts of southern Germany, occupied by American troops, there were often 'free nights' where soldiers were encouraged to abuse women at will for up to 48 hours at a time.
highlights_snippet: When The Soldiers Came' claims Allied troops raped one million women .
  
highlights_snippet: Children, men and young boys were also abused by soldiers, one million women claims .
  
highlights_snippet: Until now one million women was thought only the Stalin's Red Army raped German women .
  