Should we condemn the rapes: yes
Should we be surprised by them: no
The eastern front was barbarism. How many sovet soldiers came from the occupied areas when they fell back as the Germans advanced and when they retook the area they learned their family was executed to make room rof the german lebensraum. And not only their own family, but your comrades families.
They were turned into animals. Humans have self controls, animals don't.
Nazis on the other hand were not animals. They had method, self control over atrocities. They were monsters.
What would be the the situation if this war wouldn't have been a war of extermination but a WW1 style to force an enemy to yield. Not a war started by monters and making animals.
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