yes, you're right; it's now thought that 2 million German women were raped, usually gangraped in the last months of WWII. The Soviets wanted revenge for their 27 million dead (20,000 every day for four years) at the hands of the Germans - and indeed lots of Russian and Ukrainian girls had been raped by the Germans during their occupation. Moreover, the Red Army was sex starved for years because they were denied leave by Stalin. So, in Germany, for revenge, and for sex, they lit rip. In East Prussia in particular, there was sadistic gangrape, with women often crucified and raped to death. Later on it became more 'casual' - rape for pleasure, or rape for a cigarette (desperate German women half accepted that, as cigarettes after the war were like an underground currency). After the Battle of Berlin in April 1945, a hundred thousand Berlin fraulein were raped and gangraped, so much so that even the Catholic Archbishop gave permission for mass abortions.
As an Irishman however, the rape of Irish colleens over the centuries by brute English soldiery has a masochistic appeal. In the 17th century Cromwell's soldiers enslaved tens of thousands of Irishwomen who were sold into slavery, usually sex slavery in Jamaica, controlled by English planters.
also noteworthy, the mass rape and piracy by Muslim raiders in the Middle Ages up to the 17th century who often raided European towns and carried off European white women into sex slavery throughout the Middle East - why do you think some Arabs and Turks today have blue eyes and even blonde hair.
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