re: Allied Troops fathered 400,000 children in post-war Germany

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I'm sure the number of women raped in the East following Barbarossa till the end must be insane.

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They raped women of all ages, including even Soviet women who had been imprisoned by the Germans, sometimes in the presence of their husbands or parents. Stalin was known to have had no problem with it (he essentially regarded it as victors' reward) and so of course neither did anyone else in the Red Army.

From Anne Applebaum's excellent work Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

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Violence, especially sexual violence, made both men and women profoundly afraid Men could not protect women; woman could not protect themsevles; neither could protect their children. The horror could not be openly discussed, and official responses were usually oblique. In Hungary, the Budapest National Committee suspended the ban on abortions in February 1945, though without explaining why. In January 1946, the Hungarian Social Welfare Minister issued an evasive decree: "As an effect of the front and the chaos following it there were a lot of children born whose families did not want to take care of them. I ask hereby the bureau of orphanages to qualify all babies as abandoned whose date of birth is from nine to eighteen months after the liberation.

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