With the knowledge of Stalin, mostly Russian troops raped an estimated 1/3 of Berlin women and girls (fathering between 150,000 and 200,000 babies in Germany alone), spreading typhus, syphilis, and gonorrhea. Even though the postwar German population was now smaller than before, four times as many people were dying per day after the war than during it. And yet, on the first agenda of the first meeting of the new borough mayors of Berlin, on May 24, 1945, was street names. The German Communist Party combed through every street name and recommended 1,795 street name changes—out of an estimated
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