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Author Topic: Did Allied troops rape 285,000 German women in WWII?  (Read 1746 times)
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March 29, 2015, 04:46:06 AM
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Only women are allowed to join army, problem solved  Grin

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March 29, 2015, 06:52:02 AM
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Only women are allowed to join army, problem solved  Grin

There is a sizable number of women in prison on charges of statutory rape. Hell, there are cases of women prison officials in charge of juvenile prisons being charged with sexual misconduct as well.
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March 29, 2015, 06:34:44 PM
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Only women are allowed to join army, problem solved  Grin

There is a sizable number of women in prison on charges of statutory rape. Hell, there are cases of women prison officials in charge of juvenile prisons being charged with sexual misconduct as well.

Statutory rape isn't exactly the same as violent rape. Statutory rape usually has the consent of the underage party, where forcible rape does not. Statutory rape, even though consent is given, is usually a case of the state saying that the underage party doesn't have the ability to give consent, so the consent isn't legitimate. So I don't think the analogy transfers very well.
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March 30, 2015, 12:19:09 AM
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Unfortunately since war has existed, rape has also been something that comes right along with it. It has happened before and still continues to this day. When your job is to explode people's heads all day, rape does not seem all that bad in comparison.

True that 100%.
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March 30, 2015, 01:07:31 AM
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Unfortunately since war has existed, rape has also been something that comes right along with it. It has happened before and still continues to this day. When your job is to explode people's heads all day, rape does not seem all that bad in comparison.

True that 100%.
Also, in such bad times, sex for a loaf of bread might be more the norm, than the exception.  Someone later might reframe that to be "rape" because it was under duress, when it was more transactional. 

Really nightmarish thing, war.   

Better to be thankful that such is not our lot, than to split off one tiny aspect - rape - and  use it for current politically correct and manipulative goals.
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March 30, 2015, 04:51:22 AM
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In war rape happens, it is an unpleasant truth that no one wants to see applied to "Their side" but we would be stupid & naive to think allied soldiers never did this. Of course they did. What I am puzzled about & what I think destroys the impact of this is putting such a precise number on it is always going have people crying falsehood. Why not just say "Thousands" as there's no way we can ever really know how many.
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March 30, 2015, 07:31:20 AM
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Well the allied forces were never the 'good guys' in that war, at best they were the lesser of two evils (even that is stretching it). Now and again they would've needed to vent out the rage/hatred/whatnot within themselves in any number of ways available to them at the time.
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March 30, 2015, 05:32:24 PM
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Rape was used as a weapon by every side in the WW2. The Nazis and Japs started it, provoking retaliation from the opposing parties. The Allies (especially the Americans and the French) gave a racial angle to it, by encouraging black soldiers to rape German, Japanese and Italian women.
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