Women were the victims of war crimes throughout the Second World War, and the forms it took were many. They were raped and forced into military brothels. They were seized for slave labor in factories and fields far from home. They were used as subjects in medical experiments that maimed and killed. They were shot, gassed, and worked to death alongside the men, or in their place. What follows are a few of the documented cases, named here so that what was done to them is not lost in the count of the dead.
