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I just got an English version for my birthday today!
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In all liberated countries there were retaliation against women who had consentual relations with German soldiers. The Soviet troops who surrendered to the Germans were even sent to Gulags after liberation, so why do you think they wouldn't rape/kill women that willingly 'horizontally collaborated' with the Germans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_against_former_prisoners_of_war
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1382565/Red-Army-troops-raped-even-Russian-women-as-they-freed-them-from-camps.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:717tXfg4pv4J:www.kaleidoscopehistory.hu/download.php%3Fcikkid%3D196+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://books.google.com/books?id=_oHRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=german+soldiers+relationships+soviet+women&source=bl&ots=KY6lEHQOML&sig=KqixnRioGMvTjgsdpnDBtLmv4UI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSuf31yvvZAhVs4YMKHT6gCWoQ6AEImwEwEQ#v=onepage&q=german%20soldiers%20relationships%20soviet%20women&f=false
Rape did happen by German soldiers during their war in the East, both as part of the extermination campaign and as part and parcel of occupation, but it did not result in death every time, nor was all sex between German soldiers and Russian women rape either.
In this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-German-Fighting-Killing-Dying/dp/0307948331
about German soldiers being secretly recorded in captivity, they talked among themselves of relationships with women, consentual and rape, and did talk about rape without murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht#Rapes
There was also the brothel system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II#Eastern_Europe
Schucks, it's been a while since I've read it, but Soldaten: Fighting, Killing, Dying had passages where Luftwaffe PoWs were recorded talking about strafing and bombing civilian targets. Granted, whether those instances were single malevolent individuals acting spontaneously, or said individuals acting under orders, I cannot remember.
Pointing out a historical fact is not being a Nazi apologist. The majority of German soldiers were apolitical.
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Sorce- Soldiers: German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying
bySonke Neitzel