Women were dragged out of their homes and raped in the street .
Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, wrote a book on the topic in which he recounts the extreme violence of many of the encounters.
He wrote: ‘Rape was often accompanied by torture and mutilation and frequently ends in the victim being shot or bludgeoned to death.
The raging violence was undiscriminating.'However Russia don't accept all these claims. Critics argue that the numbers are based on faulty methodology and questionable sources.
It is argued that although there were cases of excesses and heavy-handed command, the Russian Army as a whole treated the population of the former Reich with respect.
Recently a statue in Gdansk, Poland representing a Russian Army soldier raping a pregnant woman has caught the attention of unhappy Polish and Russian authorities alike.
