Battle Which Stopped the Re united German Army From Taking Paris Again at the End of Ww1
Love Reader – This article contains some graphic details, it is unfortunately essential to include them, otherwise in that location is no possible way to encompass the scale and nature of the Hell unleashed on German language girls and women. Y'all have been taught in your schoolhouse books, countless movies and history channel documentaries of the [frequently misrepresented] horrors inflicted on everyone merely the German people. Y'all were made to look at terribly graphic photos and visit Holocaust museums funded by the survivors and descendants of the girls and women discussed in this article.
German girls and women have never stopped paying the price for Germany's defeat. In the volume Deutschland'southward War, a more detailed account is given providing a comprehensive insight into the genocidal vengeance wrecked on Germany. As you lot read this, please ask yourself:
Why are German women supposed to feel guilt for WWII? How did they endure the price of Germany'south defeat? Why is information technology acceptable that 70 years later they are one time again existence subjected to an invasion of foreign men and then silenced when they report a rise in violence? Will High german women endure the new invasion?
Part One – The Red Army
Stalin sought to ease the fears of the Western Allies apropos Soviet atrocities against the German people by issuing the post-obit order to his troops:
"Occasionally there is talk that the goal of the Red Army is to annihilate the German people….It would exist foolish to equate the High german people and the German language State with the Hitler clique. The lessons of history tell u.s. that Hitlers come and go, but the German people, the German State, they shall remain."[i]
Stalin's reasonable words were not followed past his troops. In reality, rape of German women was implicitly condoned past Stalin. Stalin asked Yugoslav communist leader Milovan Djilas,
"Tin can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"
The Ruby Army, most of whose soldiers were sexual practice-starved after four years of fighting, raped wherever it went.[ii]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, then a young captain in the Ruby Army, describes the entry of his regiment into Due east Prussia in January 1945:
"For 3 weeks the war had been going on inside Federal republic of germany and all of united states knew very well that if the girls were German they could be raped and then shot. This was almost a combat distinction." [iii]
Solzhenitsyn was a committed opponent of such atrocities and vocally opposed the rape of German women. As a upshot, he was arrested and banished to a gulag.
Some of the other Soviet front line troops shared Solzhenitsyn's mental attitude toward the proper treatment of German women. Many of these Soviet get-go echelon troops were more than concerned with fighting and survival than with rape and revenge. Still, most of the second echelon of Soviet troops were from Asiatic Russia and brought with them attitudes toward conquered people inherited from Genghis Kahn. Other 2nd echelon troops were members of penal battalions or were ex-prisoners from the German concentration camps who had been freed by the Red Ground forces and sent to the front. These soldiers who formed the second moving ridge of troops were regarded even by their comrades as completely merciless.[iv]
The savagery of Soviet soldiers was best-selling by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in his Memoirs. Montgomery states:
"From their behaviour it soon became clear that the Russians, though a fine fighting race, were in fact barbarous Asiatics who had never enjoyed a civilization comparable to that of the residual of Europe. Their approach to every problem was utterly different from ours and their behaviour, especially in their handling of women, was abhorrent to u.s.."[5]
Russian soldiers continually raped High german women as the Red Army advanced through Silesia and Pomerania towards Berlin. The German women were ofttimes ganged raped, oft again and again on successive nights. A woman interviewed in Schwerin reported that she had "already been raped by ten men today." A High german officeholder in E Prussia claims to have saved a few dozen women from a villa where "on average they had been raped 60 to lxx times a day." Another adult female in Berlin stated:
"Xx-three soldiers ane after the other. I had to be stitched up in a hospital. I never want to have annihilation to practise with any man again."[six]
Churches were frequently used past Russian soldiers to rape German women. A priest from Neisse reports:
The girls, women and nuns were raped incessantly for hours on end, the soldiers standing in queues, the officers at the head of the queues, in front of their victims. During the first nighttime many of the nuns and women were raped as many every bit fifty times. Some of the nuns who resisted with all their strength were shot, others were sick-treated in a dreadful manner until they were too exhausted to offering whatsoever resistance. The Russians knocked them down, kicked them, crush them on the caput and in the confront with the butt-cease of their revolvers and rifles, until they finally collapsed and in this unconscious condition became the helpless victims of brutish passion, which was and so inhuman as to be inconceivable. The same dreadful scenes were enacted in the hospitals, homes for the aged, and other such institutions. Even nuns who were seventy and 80 years old and were ill and bedridden were raped and ill-treated by these barbarians.[vii]
When Russian soldiers "liberated" Danzig they promptly liberated all the women of their virtue and chastity. A Russian soldier told the Danzig women to seek shelter in the Catholic cathedral to protect them from the rapes. After hundreds of women and girls were securely inside, the Russian soldiers entered and "playing the organ and ringing the bells, kept upwardly a foul orgy through the night, raping all the women, some more 30 times." A Catholic pastor in Danzig states, "They fifty-fifty violated 8-year-old girls and shot boys who tried to shield their mothers."[eight]
The following is office of an bystander account written by a veteran American newspaperman. He had been taken prisoner by the Germans in Paris and later freed by the Russians with whom he traveled every bit they swept over eastern Federal republic of germany to Berlin and beyond:
In the commune around our internment army camp—the territory comprising the towns of Schlawe, Lauenburg, and Buckow and hundreds of larger villages—Red soldiers during the first weeks of their occupation raped every woman and girl between the ages of 12 and 60. That sounds exaggerated but information technology is the elementary truth.
The simply exceptions were girls who managed to remain in hiding in the forest or who had the presence of mind to feign illness—typhoid, dyptheria or some other infectious affliction. Flushed with victory—and oftentimes with wine found in the cellars of rich Pomeranian state owners—the Reds searched every house for women, cowing them with pistols or tommy guns, and carried them into their tanks or trucks.
Husbands and fathers who attempted to protect their women folk were shot downward and girls offering extreme resistance were murdered.
Some weeks afterward the invasion, Carmine "political commissions" began a tour of the countryside ostensibly in search of members of the Nazi party. In every hamlet the women were told to report for exam of papers to these commissions, which looked them over and detained those with sexual practice appeal. The youngest and prettiest were taken by the officers and the rest left to the mercy of the privates.
This reign of terror lasted as long every bit I was with the Reds in Pomerania. Several girls whom I had known during my captivity committed suicide. Others died after having been raped by ten soldiers in succession….
Whenever possible, girls adhere themselves to liberated Anglo-American or French prisoners of war for protection against the Russians. Curiously, the Reds seemed to have a special code of accolade in this respect—they will take an Allied prisoner's scout but won't touch his girl.[nine]
When a German counterattack temporarily recaptured the town of Neustettin, a German soldier describes what he saw in houses where Russian soldiers had raped German women:
Naked, dead women lay in many of the rooms. Swastikas had been cutting into their abdomens…[too graphic] , faces beaten to a pulp and swollen puffy. Others had been tied to the furniture by their hands and anxiety, and massacred…
The mothers had had to witness how their 10 and 12-year-old daughters were raped by some 20 men; the daughters in turn saw their mothers being raped, fifty-fifty their grandmothers. Women who tried to resist were brutally tortured to death. There was no mercy….
The women we liberated were in a land almost impossible to describe…. Their faces had a confused, vacant look. Some were beyond speaking to, ran up and downwards and moaned the same sentences over and once more. Having seen the consequences of these bestial atrocities, nosotros were terribly agitated and determined to fight. Nosotros knew the war was past winning; simply it was our obligation and sacred duty to fight to the final bullet.[x]
The Russian rapes caused many German women to commit suicide. The preferred class of suicide was poisonous substance, and most Berlin women seem to have been provided with poison before the Red Ground forces arrived. Fifty-fifty when Berlin women were not driven and then far as to accept their ain lives, the rapes inevitably caused disease and unwanted babies. A loftier percentage of women became infected with venereal illness. Since antibiotics were often unaffordable, eventually the Russians decided to treat the local population themselves. Abortion was a mutual occurrence, and many abortions were performed without anesthetic. Despite the high incidence of abortion, it is estimated that betwixt 150,000 and 200,000 "Russian babies" were born to German language women.[eleven]
Function Two – German Women In French & American Occupied Territory
Cease NOTES
[i] De Zayas, Alfred-Maurice, A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 2nd edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 41.
[ii] MacDonogh, Giles, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, New York: Bones Books, 2007, pp. 25-26.
[iii] Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I., The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Vol. one), New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974, p. 21.
[iv] Botting, Douglas, From the Ruins of the Reich—Frg, 1945-1949, New York: Crown Publishers, 1985, p. 68.
[5] De Zayas, Alfred-Maurice, Nemesis at Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, pp. 71-72.
[vi] Lowe, Keith, Savage Continent: Europe in the Backwash of World War II, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012, p. 54.
[seven] Goodrich, Thomas, Hellstorm: The Expiry of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947, Sheridan, CO: Aberdeen Books, 2010, p. 84.
[eight] Ibid.
[ix] Keeling, Ralph Franklin, Gruesome Harvest: The Allies' Postwar War against the High german People, Torrance, CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1992, pp. 59-threescore.
[x] Goodrich, Thomas, Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Deutschland, 1944-1947, Sheridan, CO: Aberdeen Books, 2010, p. 159.
[xi] Ibid., pp. 99, 102.
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