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Aftermath book8/25/2023 There were also repeated attacks by soldiers in the western occupied zones. The wave of rapes in the first few weeks after the arrival of the Red Army had confronted women with raw masculine aggression. It’s true, but in a shocking way it also isn’t. We hear over and over again that in 1945 Germany was a land of women. All the film’s sympathies are with the girl that fresh tone was precisely what more forward-looking circles in post-war society were keen to hear more of. ‘I don’t just want to be charming, I need to earn money,’ announces a young school-leaver in the 1948 film Morgen ist alles besser ( Everything Will Be Better in the Morning), addressing an elderly gentleman who is smarmily heaping her with compliments. As in the late 1920s, when a new class of young female office workers adopted a ‘brazen’ tone that had not been seen before, the post-war period was similarly energised by women who no longer wanted to be told what to do, and spoke for themselves all the more clearly. Women’s independence, enforced by the anarchy of a country in collapse and men’s failure, led to a boost in sexual activity. Sprite-icon-accessible-parking sprite-icon-analysis sprite-icon-apple-podcasts sprite-icon-arrow-up sprite-icon-audio-description sprite-icon-baby-changing-facilities sprite-icon-british-sign-language sprite-icon-caret sprite-icon-chevron-in-circle sprite-icon-chevron sprite-icon-comment sprite-icon-cross sprite-icon-deezer sprite-icon-disabled-parking sprite-icon-down-block-arrow sprite-icon-download sprite-icon-external Facebook sprite-icon-google-podcasts sprite-icon-hearing-loop sprite-icon-instagram LinkedIn sprite-icon-live-subtitling sprite-icon-medium sprite-icon-menu sprite-icon-minus-in-circle sprite-icon-news sprite-icon-online-and-in-person sprite-icon-online-event sprite-icon-open-quote sprite-icon-padlock sprite-icon-pause sprite-icon-play sprite-icon-plus-in-circle sprite-icon-podcast-addict sprite-icon-press-release sprite-icon-quote sprite-icon-right-arrow sprite-icon-search sprite-icon-soundcloud-blank sprite-icon-soundcloud sprite-icon-spotify sprite-icon-stitcher sprite-icon-subtitles Twitter sprite-icon-up-block-arrow Vimeo sprite-icon-warning sprite-icon-wheelchair-accessible-venue sprite-icon-youtube
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