Czech historian Eve Hahnová wrote an article "About Anti-Russian Stereotype of Goebbels propaganda". The author argues that the contemporary Western media looks very much like Nazi propaganda in fascist Germany.
Among the earliest allegations of "Russian mass rape" came from Josef Goebbels. This is what Goebbels wrote in 1945: "Russian soldiers behaved like scum… Horrible stories came from Upper Silesia. They raped all women from 10 to 70." And sources coming from the English-speaking world or Germany basically repeated the contents of this allegation: 'They raped every German female from eight to 80'
Historians such as V.A. Zolov have largely debunked and discredited the allegation that there was "mass rape" committed by the Russian Army against Germans.
The Russians arrested approximately 4 million German, Japanese, Hungarian and other soldiers and they were placed in prisoner of war camps. These men were by and large treated humanely and they returned home after the war. The experience of these prisoners of war serves to undermine the claim that the Russians were out for bloody revenge.
The Report of the Military Prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front on unlawful acts against civilians from April 22 to May 5, 1945 documents 124 crimes were recorded in seven front armies for 908,500 thousand people, of which were for 72 rape. So, there was a grand total of 72 recorded of rape involving nearly 1 million men.
Moreover, often captured and displaced persons freed from the camps were engaged in looting and violence. They were not necessarily Russians, but somehow the Russian Army was blamed for this.
There were cases of individual Russian soldiers acting outside of the law engaging in abuses. There were strict orders, including the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of January 19, 1945 on the inadmissibility of rough treatment of the local population. This was communicated to the entire personnel of the military. The order was to be followed by commanders, political workers, and army counterintelligence.
Recollections by Russian eyewitnesses counter the allegations that Russians in general behaved with great cruelty towards Germans. One veteran M. Gareyev recalls in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda
"We cannot say that such phenomena did not exist at all. There were, but not on the scale of which today they tell us. In the documents, such facts were considered as “emergency incidents and immoral phenomena”. The leadership of the country and the command itself believed that this is not only that forms the negative image of the Red Army, but also loosens discipline. And they struggled with this by all means, starting with political work, explanations, ending with the sentences of tribunals, right up to the executions of marauders and rapists."
Another Russian soldier recalls:
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“The question of revenge on the Nazis somehow disappeared by itself. It is not in the traditions of our people to take revenge on women and children, the elderly and old women. And I did meet unarmed male Germans suitable for military service neither in the cities of Silesia, nor later, in April, in Saxony. The attitude of Soviet soldiers towards the German population where it remained could be called indifferent-neutral. None, at least from our regiment, pursued and touched them. Moreover, when we met a clearly hungry large German family, we shared food with her without further ado ”