It started as soon as the Red Army entered East Prussia and Silesia in 1944, and in many towns and villages every female aged from 10 to 80 was raped.
They were in the process of stapling me back together.
All too often, soldiers who had drunk too much and were unable to perform the sex act, used the bottle to mutilate their victims obscenely.
Children were shot indiscriminately and all those trying to flee were crushed to death under the treads of the Soviet tanks.
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Photos shared with permission from The Breastfeeding Project This post was originally published in June, 2013.