Military Review English Edition July-August 2014 | Page 87

REVIEW ESSAY

recognize the similarities between the current Uniform
Code of Military Justice and the legal procedures
regarding rape that were practiced in both the German
and Russian Armies on the Russian front described
by Regina Mühlhäuser and Marianna G. Muravyeva.
Even the highly professional Wehrmacht had high rates
on unpunished sexual assaults, treating rape as “a crime
against discipline” rather than a capital crime.
This book also demonstrates how women—both
fighters and civilians—often endure the hardships of
war. An essay by Norman M. Naimark describes the
way that German women on the Russian front endured
rape as punishment in response to German military atrocities. They were able to move forward with
their lives by recording their experiences in me [