Such an examination of the whole spectrum of sexual contacts is new and Regina Mühlhäuser succeeds in showing that an understanding of the structures of power and violence in wartime is essential if we are to comprehend consensual relations, as well. […] Regina Mühlhäuser has probed the complex nature of encounters between military society and civil society. […] To "get to the roots of the multilayered interconnectedness of gender, sexuality, war, and violence" was the goal which Mühlhäuser formulated for her work. With her close analysis of a wide variety of sources, she has achieved this in what is, altogether, an outstanding way.

- Veronika Springmann, H-Soz-u-Kult, May 2010

Thanks to her innovative research focus, the study’s multiple perspectives, her clear lines of argument, and her careful use of terminology, Mühlhäuser has made an important contribution to this field of research.

- Maren Röger, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 58 (2010): 7/8, 671–672

Regina Mühlhäuser's extraordinary account of wartime sexual relations dismantles many myths associated with Nazi sexual ideology and practices during the Second World War. She not only delves deeply into official policies regarding sexual behaviours (both forced and consensual) but is sensitive to the ways men and women attempted to make sense of the brutality of sex in times of war. This is a book that will change the way historians think about sex and war.

- Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London,