East Prussia was the first German region visited by the Red Army, and to some extent the worst treated. The first incursion, at Nemmersdorf on 21 October 1944, was to be a foretaste. In the course of a single night the Red Army killed seventy-two women and one man. Most of the women had been raped, of whom the oldest was eighty-four. Some of the victims had been crucified. Gauleiter Koch refused to allow the population to flee. Hitler wanted East Prussia to prove the resilience of the German people. That autumn the East Prussians watched the departure of the birds: ‘Yes, you are now flying away! And us? What is to become of us and our land?
After The Reich by GILES MACDONOGH
HOW IT ALL BEGAN.....
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"One woman told of being raped 20 times in one night" by Russian soldiers, and then taken along with several other women, and a young girl, and kept in a house for a week. Raped day and night, until the Russian secret police came upon the house looking for deserters.....
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine that kind of hell.... Unfortunately, I fear that we'll see a repeat of those horrors, when the SHTF, here.....
Fight, never say die, for there are fates worse than death!
Absolutely and never surrender. Here is a family story and I just made a comment there for you.
DeleteTante Marie........
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2013/12/tante-marie.html
Thank you for the link and comments Brock!
ReplyDeleteI have a genuine HATE for anyone (male/female) who commit such heinous physical acts upon women and children!! (If caught... No mercy, only GOD can grant that, because I won't).
Neither I, Sir, and we can go forward shoulder to shoulder takings reprisals.
Delete"shoulder to shoulder".... Guaranteed!! (I'm already there, Sir)
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