You're correct. Spouses's relatives raped by Red Army.
Main consideration of those in area of Red Army advance was to get to the US front during the war or US sector after the war. Germans I know who were kids at the time still remember the things GI's would give them to eat or how the GIs helped them out in situations where German police (after the war) would bust their chops for no good reason.
I live near the old iron curtain (on the US sector side). Near the main destination for German refugees from the east. Walked hundreds of miles to get to the US sector.