ABSTRACT
Over the course of several weeks in 1945 in Berlin, anywhere between a few hundred thousand and two million German women were raped. This took place even in urban spaces, where cameras were present as the destruction of buildings was carefully recorded in numerous trophy photographs. The rapes are discussed, though not in depth or at length, in quite a few historical accounts. There is no disagreement among researchers about the widespread occurrence of rape – only about the precise number of women who were violated.
