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Abstract: »The volume starts with an analysis of sexualized violence by German soldiers. MONIKA J. FLASCHKA in her contribution on ‘Child abuse and the creation of the German Soldier, 1933–1945’ underlines that the sexual assault of children under the Nazi regime has received relatively little attention, even as scholars of the Second World War increasingly focus on topics related to sexual violence. Relying on court-martial records, FLASCHKA examines the language used by all those involved in child abuse cases to determine how the intersection of the gender and racial ideologies of the German military affected the determination of punishment and perceptions of victims and perpetrators. What the courts-martial illustrate is how the law and the trials provided a space for the creation and negotiation of a specific identity: Nazi German soldier.« (Source: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johannes-Dieter Steinert. »Introduction: Ideological Intersection of Sexualized Violence during Nazi Persecution.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 14)

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