Stalin's army of rapists
RAPE OF GERMAN WOMEN: After Germany lost the Second World War
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VE Day, what comes to mind? Churchill’s two-fingered Victory salute; the Royal Family waving from the balcony; the Princesses escaping to join the crowds dancing in the streets; the pealing of bells from country churches to mark the longed-for benison of peace.
Yet, for the defeated, peace was a dirty word, a bitter shrug of laughter. Throughout Europe and beyond, the reality was not peace but hunger, despair and revenge.
Ian Buruma’s wonderful book is about a time, immediately after the end of the war, which has somehow fallen between the cracks of history, and which the author has now devastatingly brought to light.
He was prompted to write it, he tells us, by his father’s wartime experience of forced labour in a concentration camp. How, he wondered, could the world return to normality after such horrors? How could the starving survivors be stopped from exacting bloody revenge? How could societies be mended and ‘civilisation’ put together again?
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Unfortunately there are casualties not only upon the battlefield. Revenge and hate go hand in hand and in the end, the innocent will always suffer.
ReplyDeleteSuch a shame. Check out the video in the second link above if you haven't.
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