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https://www.dw.com/en/troops-fathered-400000-children-in-post-war-germany/a-18237282

The study to be published next Monday in a German-language book whose title translates as "Bastards, the children of occupation in Germany after 1945" found that at least 300,000 children were fathered by occupying Soviet Red Army soldiers.
Rapes perpetrated on German women occurred in all four zones, including forced sex by members of French and US units.

https://www.dw.com/en/children-of-occupation-troops-seek-long-lost-fathers/a-16270872

Historians say 400,000 children fathered by Soviet and Western occupation troops in once divided Germany and Austria just after World War II need help in tracing their roots. The number is higher than initially assumed.

Researchers had previously assumed that there were 68,000 such children in what was once occupied West Germany - before German unification in 1990 - and 8,000 in Austria.
A bazooka squad of US Military Police man a rooftop position on Oct. 29 1961, near the Friedrich Strasse border in Berlin. Photo: APA bazooka squad of US Military Police man a rooftop position on Oct. 29 1961, near the Friedrich Strasse border in Berlin. Photo: AP
Troops of many nations served in Germany after WWIIImage: AP
Satjukow said the current estimate was 100,000 for former West Germany, 300,000 in former East Germany, and 40,000 in Austria.
Deathbed disclosures
She said those affected, now aged between 60 and 70 years old, were often uninformed until the mother, on her deathbed, disclosed the father's identity, or when the child learned of his or her origins later by reading the mother's will and documents left behind.