ABSTRACT
The feminist academics and activists demanded that the era of silence be replaced with international recognition. They focused their attention to find causes of Conflict-related sexual violence by analysing militarism, patriarchy, gender and structural inequality, all of which enable and encourage violence against women. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court promulgated wartime rape as a crime of war and a crime against humanity. This development has been strengthened further by the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions, dealing with the situation of women in armed conflict. Jewish women were particularly vulnerable to rape by German soldiers, while German women were the target of mass rape by the Soviet Red Army and their allies after Germany surrendered, during the Holocaust. The rape of German women marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany.
