Even Jewish women were not safe. Red Army soldiers had little idea of the Nazis’ racial persecution, which had been concealed by Soviet propaganda during the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and then because Stalin did not want the Jews to be seen as a special category of victim. As a result, the reaction was simply one of ‘Frau ist Frau’. The Jewish women and girls still held in the Schulstrasse transit camp in Wedding were raped after the SS guards vanished.
