The way I see it is you can't engage in war without dehumanizing the enemy (people in general don't like killing another person, much less 300 of them), so if you are being invaded by a genocidal force that dehumanization is excusable if it's the cost of rebuffing them. Besides it's not like the USSR did a counter genocide against Germany so I'm not sure what "shit" was started in this case
I'm not an expert, and of course such an inflammatory historical narrative is going to have disagreement, but the evidence pretty strongly suggests that mass-rape took place during the occupation and invasion of Germany proper.
Now that MIGHT not rise to the level of genocide, but it sure as shit ain't the action of benevolent liberators either. One could see how virulent dehumanization might lead to a greater rate of war-time rape.
The way I see it is you can't engage in war without dehumanizing the enemy (people in general don't like killing another person, much less 300 of them), so if you are being invaded by a genocidal force that dehumanization is excusable if it's the cost of rebuffing them. Besides it's not like the USSR did a counter genocide against Germany so I'm not sure what "shit" was started in this case
I'm not an expert, and of course such an inflammatory historical narrative is going to have disagreement, but the evidence pretty strongly suggests that mass-rape took place during the occupation and invasion of Germany proper.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany
Now that MIGHT not rise to the level of genocide, but it sure as shit ain't the action of benevolent liberators either. One could see how virulent dehumanization might lead to a greater rate of war-time rape.