The troops raped and then raped again. ‘An educated German is explaining in broken Russian that his wife has already been raped by ten men today,’ wrote Grossman. A breast-feeding mother spoke of being raped in a barn. ‘Her relatives came and asked her attackers to let her have a break, because the hungry baby was crying the whole time.’ The Soviet troops did not only rape German women. They raped Poles, French and even Soviet women who fell in the frontiviki’s path. These victims were usually young slave labourers, brought here to work in German farms and factories.
