Rape in World War I
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Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, rape, sexual violence, World War I.Abstract
The article deals with the phenomena of rape and sexual violence in World War I. It compares the situation in the areas of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Galicia with that in the Balkans, where women were targets of systematic violence. Rape was a part of a military strategy that aimed to demoralize the civil population because it equally affected women and the community as whole. The article is based on reports of the Swiss criminologist Rudolph Archibald Reiss, who was commissioned by the Serbian government to report on war crimes against the Serbian population and on violence against the civilian Italian population.
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