Berlin woman's memoir of mass rape reviewed: from the archive, 17 June 1955

Controversial book suggests many Berlin women were raped by drunken Red Army soldiers during the second world warObserver, 19 June 2005: When rape was a spoil of warTwo years after the end of the war Berlin still smelled of death. Each street contained dozens of ruins and every ruin, especially after rain had fallen and there was still a dampness in the air, retained the same sickly smell. It may have been, as some Germans honestly believed, corpses buried beneath them, or it may have been the s