Between the months of January and August of , Germany saw the largest incident of mass rape known in history, where an estimated two million German women were raped by the Soviet Red Army soldiers, as written by Walter Zapotoczny Jr. Between the months of April and May, the German capital Berlin saw more than , rape cases according to hospital reports, while East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia saw more than 1. Hospital reports also stated that abortion operations were being carried out daily across all German hospitals. This caused the deaths of no less than , girls and women due to the spread of diseases, especially that many eyewitnesses recounted victims being raped as much as 70 times in that period. Red Army soldiers would mass rape German women as a kind of revenge against their enemy: The German army.

IN PICTURES: How German women suffered largest mass rape in history by Soviets



IN PICTURES: How German women suffered largest mass rape in history by Soviets
Seventy-five years ago, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, bringing an end to a long and devastating World War II and making the Enola Gay, the B that delivered it, one of the most famous in history. The remote-controlled gun turrets were also taken away to increase speed. Only the tail gun position was left to defend it from enemies. Paul W.


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The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia , a title used for the film based on his wartime activities. Chapman left his wife and family in Ireland to cohabit with Junner. Chapman and Junner called themselves Mr and Mrs Lawrence, using the surname of Sarah's likely father; her mother had been employed as a servant for a Lawrence family when she became pregnant with Sarah. Between and he worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum , chiefly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria. Soon after the outbreak of war in he volunteered for the British Army and was stationed at the Arab Bureau established in intelligence unit in Egypt.




Military service is mandatory for all Turkish men - they can only escape it if they are ill, disabled or homosexual. But proving homosexuality is a humiliating ordeal. Ahmet, a young man in his 20s, told officials he was gay at the first opportunity after he was called up, as he and other conscripts underwent a health check.