That’s sad but true. But it depends on the person. I’m sure not exactly everyone in every army in every war would do that. There’s both good and bad people.
many , MANY commenters in the past complained that this channel only showed crimes against humanity perpetrated by the axis powers and not by the allies , this video goes some way to set the record straight
There was a German Holocaust at the end of WW2. Germans were rounded up in the occupied areas, those that had native German populations. They were forced marched to what was left of Germany. Many were murdered along the way.
The famous 1961 Italian film Two Women starring Sophia Loren was mainly about the battle of Italy as the Germans fought the allied soldiers fleeing north to escape before Italy surrendered to the allies. Sophia, the main character and her daughter were attacked and raped by allied soldiers when they were caught in the fighting. Many Italian civilians were attacked, raped or killed when a lot of them were caught up in the fighting between the Allies and German soldiers in the decisive battle for Italy.
During colonial rule in India, Britishers used to commit these crimes on large scale. My Grandmother used to tell me that whenever they saw Britishers the women used to jump in wells or hide in house.
Hmmm... making negative comments about the British for actions that happened nearly 100 years, whilst living in a fair and relatively safe place called Britain!!!!! Can't make it up!!
@Cher cher You want proof then here it is (1)Queen's daughter in india written by an English woman. (2) Anglo indian community. (3)Dairies of British soldiers and officers. (4)The contagious diseases acts 1866. (5) Many Indians have british dna. (6) The chakla system in british era. There are many more why don't you search on this topic by yourself.
War brings out the evil on both sides. I’ve heard war stories as a bedside nurse in VA hospitals over a 35 year career that I can not repeat, and if I did, would make your skin crawl.
It is the duty of anyone who knows anything about this to pass it on to the rest of the world so that the recurrence of such horrors is minimized as possible.
The horrors of war. It turns men into rabid beasts, on ALL sides. I'm hoping it's the minority and NOT the majority of men. A lot of men are so traumatized when they come home, they have PTSD!! I'm wondering if it's because they saw too much death, or maybe they saw these rapes and outright murder?! Probably BOTH!!! That would be hard for a REAL man to accept.
I wonder if those soldiers who committed rape after rape suffered from PTSD, I HOPE SO. Two wrongs can NEVER make. a right. The rapists were probably misogynistic pigs anyway. Many makes are ruled by their genitals, as they are today.
My friend served three tours in Iraq and 3 more in Afghanistan. He and his pals rescued a boy the Bacha Bazi tribal warlords had tied to a bed. The kid was 10 years old and had been raped thousands of times by the Muslim adult male, who bought him. The Army told these heroes "We don't interfere with the customs of the locals" and ordered the boy returned to bondage and sexual slavery to Allah man. My friend ended up becoming alcoholic, getting divorced and moving to rural Montana to escape the PTSD as much as he could.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 lütfen arkadaşına saygılarımı ilet. Türkiye' den sevgilerimi yolluyorum sizlere, diğer yandan da devletimizin ülkemize göç ettirdiği 1.5 milyon bacha bazi sever ile aynı ülkede yaşamak zorunda kalıp, çocukları korumaya çalışıyorum. Yine de sizin suçunuz yok, iyi insanlar her nerde ise güçlü olsunlar.
My in laws met in a force work camp in Germany. My mother in law was Ukrainian and my father in law was Belarusian. My husband was born in the Republic of Germany in 1949. They were allowed to come to America in 1952. They were not Jewish. They were eastern orthodox. My inlaws had a very painful difficult life. I wish I learned more from my mother inlaw.
They were used as slave labor. I'm friends with an American who had two parents from Ukraine that worked for the German regime during the war. My mother was brought from Hamburg, Germany at age 6 in 1927. My Oma und Opa lived through WW l and wanted a better life in the U.S.A.. They went through hell as Germans during the war. Americans and many people in the world don't realize that living hell awaits us all. Feeling safe is not a fact. @@myhonorwasloyalty
You are a light in this world to carry the flame of their legacy. Thank you for sharing their spirits and who they were. Are. They live because we remember. Thank you for doing that. Peace be with you always.
@@albertmarnell9976 Thank you also for sharing the legacy of your loved ones. It's so cruelly ignored, and I'm so sorry that people forget how to see human beings. My heart breaks because of that. May their memory be a blessing to you. Peace be with you always.
Its a way to take away the pride of a people. I am German and this pride never got restored, I can see it when I talk with my grandparents. My Grandpa started to cry when he told me how he witnessed as a child that his mother went with allied soldiers to come back beaten up and in bad shape (raped). His father died in combat he has only seen him twice. I see this humiliation is still inside him as an 80y old man, and in a way it also affects my father and me on an epigenetic level and we can still see in our society that men who have pride get shut down very fast as its not wanted anymore.
What your Nazi people did to Jews done to your women by allied forces. ...and remember, you civilians German so called elite class used to make mockery and laugh at Jews people when they were dragged and tortured in the streets. You were in the majority in terms of population...are you not ashamed of what you did to minorities that time?
This is exactly what the purpose of the humiliation of the conquered enemy is. Humiliation and breaking up spirit of a potential adversary. Your comment and the fact that Europe so far enjoyed peace are testimonies of effectiveness of it. With few exceptions it is men who are worriers. Most of the time propaganda portraits them as defenders of the week and helpless (women and children), it is rape of women ultimate proof of their inability to fulfill this duty. After these brutal events no German will be able to present himself as superior to others.
The Eastern tribunals should have lasted longer.I think MacArthur wanted them over with to facilitate his occupation. I sit on the "They got off too easy " side.
@@sheldonwheaton881 dating in germany untill 1989 (the soviets)... This is not a long time for you lol. Annexing, under cover of liberation. Do not change the roles. The terrorist east block will never win. Even if they destroy the whole planet
It seems any war will involve the rape of women by soldiers regardless of drunkenness or nationality. It's as though taking women is an unwritten law of war. The men forget they have their own mothers, sisters, wives in their lives and they are able to dehumanize and use females of "the enemy". Most often no one is punished and the soldiers can proceed with impunity. These crimes are happening again in Ukraine as they did in Bosnia etc etc.
There will always be individual bad actors in every military. The difference being some countries will tolerate, condone or even encourage the rape of women. That would be countries like Russia and Japan or the Nazis. The Allies countries of WWII may have at times looked away to some extent but would never condone or encourage the rape of women.
@@CM-ve1bz The USA allows rapists of women and children to walk away from their crimes every day. This isn't just a war thing. This is a women and children aren't important thing.
@@wildnette That's because the Democratic party is in charge. The Democrats allow and even encourage alternative lifestyles and perverted thinking. They are the ones putting perversion into our schools and our streets. If the Conservatives were making the laws rapist and those that harm our children would suffer severe consequences. Rape and child molestation where capital crimes in the United States once upon a time. We've become very European as of late. You might want to say that Republicans have been in charge before and nothing changed. The problem with that is most Republicans in Washington DC are much like Liz Chaney, they are rhinos at best. They just hide it better than she does. They are more worried about their government job then your children.
The russians are the worst attacking innocent civilians in an unprovoked attack. Many german women were protected by the american soldiers from the russian dogs and went to america to start new lives with them. Russia brought the german attack in ww2 on themselves by stealing neighbors countries exactly like we are seeing today. Living anywhere near russia was and clearly still is a very bad thing. The stronger the soviet union became the more germany felt threatened. Russia killed millions of their own people before ww2 and many were of german heritage. Many russians welcomed the german attack and joined the nazi army. Stalin killed their entire families if they were caught or if they surrendered to the nazi's. It would not surprise me if putin is doing the very same thing to families of captured soldiers in his army of thugs today. When polish jewish communists tried to physically take over the german government in the 30s and had to be killed they caused the eventual death of many jews who were regarded as communists since lenin and trotsky started the russian revolution causing millions to die and lose their freedom.
My grandfather was stationed in Berlin in the closing days of the war and after. He told me that the German people suffered horribly during that time, that Germans were starving and desperate. He wasn’t proud of his service and didn’t want to be there in the first place, got drafted at 18. When he came home, he was psychologically damaged for the rest of his life. I’m sure he witnessed/knew of abuse against German civilians based on what he told me.
I think what does the psychological damage is that they knew what their comrades in arms were doing, but they didn't speak out or try to stop it. They simply ignored the crimes. And THAT I think is worse. Peer pressure can be an awful thing! I have a relative who served in the middle east in the 70's, and sometimes I think the reason he is in such bad shape mentally is because of that very thing! Men like to think they are heroes and protectors when they go to war. Some find out that they are really cowards. That is a hard pill to swallow.
These atrocities are probably true of all wars. I remember the awful movies of that horrible Viet Nam war. I sobbed openly at the continual rape and torture of a Vietnamese peasant, by American soldiers.
War is the great " x - ray " of human character . It exposes one's true character . If a person is rotten , I mean , just under the skin then war will expose it , likewise if a person is a decent human being , war will bring it out , believe me .
Les Allemands et allemandes ont bien mérité leur sort lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Ils n'avaient pas à agresser les autres peuples.Quant aux femmes qui ont été violées cela me laisse indifférent.
Thank you for making this video. As the comments clearly show, too many people dehumanize the average citizen just because of where they live. Sickening and hypocritical.
One particular time i was in the mess, (ex ADF Army) i said to the fellers around me, 'if we ever go to a warzone and i see anyone raping a civilian I'll put a bullet through you', i was expecting agreement but all i got was shocked looks. Just goes to show not all who wear a uniform are of sound character 😔
The one who starts a fight is the one who first dehumanises everybody else, the whole humanity. They who belong to a dehumanising nation should not complain at all, they should be first to ask forgiveness, to their enemies, and to their co-nationals.
That does not excuse the choices of the men involved. There are no valid justifications. Claiming "war is a nasty business" doesn't make a man any less of a predator. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
War is about destroying your enemy, not just the soldiers. War is about breaking your enemy, breaking them psychologically, physically, emotionally. Soldiers have assaulted the woman of their enemies through all history because that leaves your enemy’s society traumatized with no resolve to fight back. It’s disgusting.
@@donaldbell2415 The concept of ‘war crime’ is an absolute joke. War is crime, it’s about killing and destroying people, you can’t talk about some war as if it’s ethical compared to other war.
The powers in charge would disagree, and the business tycoons love the prophets made from war, they're the ones that start the mess and the citizens are the ones to suffer the consequences.
This does not excuse men's choices during war. It is unforgivable. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
That is too simplistic. It is accepting that there will be atrocities. The Germans and Japanese atrocities were much greater in number and degrees than the allies.
I watched a video recently of a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz. At the time of liberation she was around 18 and in bad shape physically, as you can imagine. Afterwards, she also got very depressed that all but her sister had been killed. They found an apt. and she had to be carried. They put her in a crib, and during the night a drunk American soldier with a buddy broke into the apt, picked her up out of the crib and started taking her clothes off, but was stopped by his fellow soldier. She said he got infuriated, but left. He came back the next morning to bring her flowers and apologize. I bet she wondered if she’d ever stop being terrorized and feel safe again.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 We did. Our men committed atrocities in France, Germany, Vietnam and Cambodia. But Holocaust survivors? From those filthy dehumanizing, murderous atrocious Nazi camps? NO! No no and double no.
Many, many moons ago, my ex & I had taken a trip out West in Canada. We stopped in a roadhouse for something to eat & meet some older guys. We got talking & for whatever reason the conversation turned to WW2. These guys came in just as the war was declared over & had joined up with some Russian soldiers that were to seek out any German soldiers possibly hiding in the countryside. These guys soon became aware that these Russians were nothing but cruel, vile pigs. I won't get into detail what they did to a farmer's wife, daughter & 7yr old boy. Eventually they hung them in the barn. These Canadians had had enough of these atrocities that; let me just say these Russians never woke up in the morning. Because of the fact it was still a war, nobody gave the demise of these Russians a second thought.
History repeated itself on and on. From the beginning of times until now women are sexual assaulted and worse in times of war or other. Some men don't need a reason for this dispicable behaviour
The platoon bullies sniff each other almost immediately. Then they gang up and establish informal hierarchy based on bullying, harassment and humiliation. That's the reality in the army.
Can you please stop saying those germans , the German people voted for adolf hitler in a general election . The german people in a referendum gave hitler a 95% approval to his enabling act which effectively allowed without any violence to allow Hitler to be the sole ruler of Germany as an authorotarian regime . The german people have adolf hitler consent to dissolve the weimar republic as the nationalist socialist revolution . These are the facts. When are today's germans just going to accept this that propaganda and dogma took over most of the German people period . The reason why this is so important is that this could be repeated and it was to an extent with Donald trump in the United States with his election lies and attempted coup
And secondly there was no serious partisan resistance movement by the Germans against the Nazi state . It did not exist . Stauffenberg was the only man who finally manned up towards the end of the war to get rid of hitler and his family were condemned as traitors
i personaly think that many things from past, we kinda cant watch thru our eyes, eyes of a modern man, coz those things were like 80 years ago, but when it comes to such crimes i bleieve it needs to be talked about it and judged. i am survivor of ethnical cleansing from 90ties in former yugoslavia, one of things they kept saying when we wer egathered like a cattel to one place, was this all is for 1945, and i was 9, in 1991, someone saying to 9 year old basicaly your town is flattened you are here where you are, people are dead around you, women and men divided, women are screaming from from various sides, you are ordered to strip naked and enter huge like a warehouse, inside is bunch of young boys and teens, and boys who are hardly 6. to be searched and inerogated completly naked and kept been told this is for 1945. coz if we kept silent about those stories from past, those expirences of people, from who majority is not alive an more or is in their late 80 ties and 90ties, those things will keep repeating. crimes of one can't justifie another crimes done by other side. it does not work like that. people who do crimes in wars have their names, and this story from this video is former yugoslavia story in ww1, ww2, wars from 90ties, is ukranien story today, is polish, is french, is any where in the world in any given past or present time where some kind of armed conflict is. kids are sold often to god know who and for what. war times ar emagnet for all kinds of sycos who even during peace do certain things just in a hiding. and they will do them once war is over. in my country war veteran recently was charged for rap**e of his own 8 year old daughter, if he was doing that to his own child, imagine what he was doing during war to other children..
Don’t explain yourself for what the nazis did Unless you are one And be proud of your Country don’t let history hunt you Specially now days after it’s crystal clear that the allies are not exactly he good guys nor are they the hero’s they are just the winners ( Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen , that’s just recent history as there are many more evil intervention and war crimes committed after ww2 )
So did the women in the countries that the German soldiers invaded....well...many went to their deaths, so they didn't get to tell their grand children stories.
I'd argue that rather it shows the true nature of men and their individual wills. Takes every social and moral mask off of you right down to the naked core. If men like Desmond Doss and Léo Major could keep their principles intact in such horrendous conditions then I'm less inclined to feels sympathy towards the men who try to justify their own atrocities.
@@carrot8736 There's no shroud of morality or complex disguises involved. It's humans simply adapting to what they perceived is an amoral environment. They exercised the behavior that their circumstances permitted. Provided the resources, opportunity or incentives of gratification, everyone is capable of great good or evil.
Actually they surrendered in mass on the western front. They fought to the end on the eastern front because they knew what they did to the soviets when they had the upper hand in the Soviet Union.
@@darryljones6129 True, but that doesn't mean that they didn't continue fighting there as well (e.g. Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945; Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 6. October 1944 - 10. February 1945; Ruhr Pocket: 1- 18 April 1945)
@@TheHolyActivist you are correct. They fought well. Some divisions of the Wehrmacht retreated from the East to avoid being captured by the Soviets close to the end of the war. Some of the hardest fighting happened when the Soviets started to take Berlin.
Mostly by the red army. By far more than any other. They viewed it as the spoils of war and it was even encouraged as a morale booster. That's why Japan surrendered. It didn't have anything to do with the bomb. They were more afraid of the Russians after tales from Berlin surfaced.
I lived in Germany for a few years as hubby was in the RAF stationed there. I worked on the camp in a cafe. We had a cook that wasn't German but came from Easter Europe. She was in a camp that was just women. They were used by the German Soldiers as Comfort women. Once she refused and was kicked in the face and lost teeth. When the was was coming to an end they were "liberated" by the Americans. She said they were treated no better than what the Germans did. She hated the Americans as much as she hated the Germans. I appreciate that it was a minority and I'm sure the majority behaved but war is war
Yes. Non German women were treated very badly by some American soldiers. Having been in the Army myself, it is best to try to dissuade these people from these crimes. You may be called a wimp, but you hve done a good deed.
My stepdad was a Captain in the Canadian Army and he told me these atrocities also took place in Italy. Still, he also said to me that in the Candian Military, it was pretty easy to be shot for any major crimes against any civilians both male and female young and old unless you could prove it was in self-defense... Is anybody out there that can confirm this?
There are a couple accounts of rape by Canadian soldiers from German women, but they are few. Not everyone in the military "Served/serving their country" is a good person. I know from experience for every patriot there's unwanted shitheads too.
The first act of ALL belligerent governments is to dehumanise the enemy. Most of us will recall posters of a WW1 fierce eyed German soldier towering over a cowering young mother holding her babe-in- arms. Equally, we've ALL heard stories of men (mostly) meeting their erstwhile enemies long after wars end, only to remain firm friends for the rest of their lives. I've known several, the usual comment is "they're just like us". RIP to them all.
what people fail to realize say in the german perspective...most german soldiers in Russia were just soldiers but the nazis would come in and commit atrocities' so people would assume every german soldier was evil this was actually used as a terror weapon..by their own govt
But gangraping young girls to death can be. And leaving some food after you did that, as if you're paying a prostitute, can surely be described as sadistic too.
A work colleague of mine told me how her father, British soldier, who fought in Europe during WW2 told her how British soldiers were r*****g German women after the fall of the 3rd Reich. He told her that there was nothing you could do, if you tried to stop them you'd be killed. I also knew a woman who was part of the exodus out of Dresden and she talked about how allied planes would strafe the roadways with gunfire on refugees as they marched away from the city. She herself moved to England with a young squaddie who had been stationed there after the war.
@Cher cher believe me, I would rather be in front line, than waiting to be raped and killed together with my children. If war ever comes to my parts and I won’t be able to avoid it, I’ll try to die fighting by all means. Dying after being raped and tortured is so overvalued.
Wait, what? The men are simply executed while the women have to "have sex" and that is worse somehow? The men DIED trying to PROTECT the women - you ungrateful, woke, fool.
@@V.E.R.O. I'm looking at Europe today - where women ARE the leaders, for the most part - and I see them doing everything in their power to start WWIII in Ukraine. Just saying...
@@danakaleb4882 Most of the women "behind the front line" never see an enemy.... for example, the German women during the first world war never saw the enemy after the defeat of their army ... with exception of the occupation of the Rein Ruhr Gebiet .... did you ever saw a women on a military cemetery? 22 million men died as a soldier during WW2...
It makes no sense to do exactly the same things that on’es enemy did, in revenge for what they did. You show by your actions that you’re morally no better than the enemy.
@@harmony3279 hate only breeds hate. If you do what perpetrators do you are also a perpetrator. Especially if you’re doing it to people indirectly involved. And if you find joy in what happened to German women simply because of actions done out of their own control you are sick and full of hate. Just like the nazis were.
The Soviet Union TRIED to take the high road with Germany in the opening days of Barbarossa. 'Tell us what you want, and we'll GIVE it to you!' Finally, at Stalingrad, the Red army soldiers realized that Germany would not stop killing until they were killed themselves, and the tide turned.
I always have to think of the many innocent children that were begotten troughout Europe and in the East through violence by soldiers of any nation. These children and their mothers suffered all their lives, because they could not love their child. War destroys all human feelings.
It’s still happening today ; the poor girls who were kidnapped by Biko haram in northern Nigeria so many of them had babies by them. Some are still in captivity! It’s really sad !
My mom told me to that when she was a child in Germany...American soldiers kicked her mom, her, and her young brother out of their house. They forced a neighbor woman to cook and serve them. They also looted what meager valuables they had. Dishes were broken and furniture ripped.
and what did your grandfather? Defending his family? Oh no, I forgot, he participated in a war of agression, he invaded peacefull countries, murdering and stealing ... be glad the Americans came to save you from the Nazi's.
Can you provide us with your source of information about such a crime committed on a larger scale? I knew about the red army but not about the allied forces.
I watched an interview with a red army soldier from WW2. What he recalled what his company did was so bad, if I were him, I never would have retold those stories to anyone. God forgive them.
Maybe he should also tell you what Germans did to his women? They saw it as tit for tat. It was wrong on all acounts, But it is as it is. Maybe you should also Check what German army was doing in invaded teritories. Hatred against Germans was so profound, that otherwise ‘good and civilised people’ were discussing, if they should leave any of them alive at all. WWI and WWII left scars in Europe that never healed.
I can assure you that the German treatment of Soviet women was just as bad. Worse, actually, because as Slavs, they had been marked for slavery and extermination.
@@ThePlataf And yet the Germans who suffered as much as everyone else never get any sympathy. Raping and slaughtering Millions out of revenge isn’t going to undo the Damage done to your People, it also doesn’t satisfy a desire for revenge it only leads to you becoming as cruel and violent as the very people you oppose. Finally how is raping Millions of Women and Children who had nothing to do with the War acceptable? The Allies were no better then the Nazis when the War ended the Allied Powers had committed so many horrific Crimes and Atrocities that they were indistinguishable from the Nazis.
It's cowardly to target women with violence whatever the situation, even if they are combatants. Restraint is what differentiates a human being from a beast in a human body.
who's nuclear button do you mean? I hope you do not mean putin, the lunatic, because he is not defending anything, he is an attacker, aggressor, thug, murderer.
A woman who lived in Arnhem (near the bridge) explained to me the situation at the time. She was 14 then. The Germans were always very polite, even walking round the flower beds. There was one rape by a German soldier. He was found and publically executed by the Germans. When the allies arrived, many many Dutch women were raped - and they stomped through the flower beds.
Yes.The germans were known for being very polite.And moral.And righteous. What a pathetic story! The Dutch happily gave over so many Jews to the nazis , I'm pleased to hear their was a little bit of revenge on this earth still.
@@Tali5899 The German were known for being very polite and professional to people they saw as equals, the Germanic peoples. Those they didn’t not so much. Ask the Eastern Europeans how decent and polite they were.
Thank you for telling this story as it needs to be told n known about as my mum's aunts were all raped in Germany by the Red army .. n it's not told enough ..
Hello, I remember watching documentary video where they talked to a handful of German women about this during world war II. One German lady talked about the French soldiers being cruel and just as mean and made the Soviet soldiers look like boy scouts.
Not only the French but also the British, the American and Japanese soldiers ... do not judge a nation by war crimes only. There were wars everywhere in Europe in the past and soldiers killed so many innocent people (children, women, the elderly, ...) Things will never change. The war in Ukraine today is another example. Many Ukrainian women were raped. And if you go to some African countries, it is exactly the same situation. What the German soldiers did during WWI and WWII in Europe to some civilians was an absolute horror (tortures, rapes, concentration camps, ...). Human beings can be evil.
I will say one thing, 27 million people died in the USSR, of which 13-15 million were soldiers. The Germans and their allies destroy entire villages, including old people, women and children. One of the German soldiers, in letters to a friend, boasted of how they raped young girls in droves and how he liked them to resist to the last, and then kill them; this soldier was also surprised that there were so many virgins among them... There is a huge amount of evidence of the brutal murders of small children, including crucifixions, and I also remember how a German soldier killed a child with an ax (because the child was crying and did not let him sleep). I read letters from German soldiers, and letters from their wives and mothers, who asked to send a fur coat or boots, and also thanked for the parcels sent, one Frau thanked and wrote that she was able to wash a blood stain from the coat that he sent them, and how this coat goes their daughters..... For many USSR soldiers, the Germans killed all their relatives: mothers, fathers, wives, children..... How could they be kind after that? Do you seriously think this was cruel to women in Germany???? Only thanks to the power of the USSR, their generals and the kindness of “Ivan” was at least something left of the people of Germany!
War and the crimes committed during and after wars was sick and depraved. My heart goes out to all of those who died in battle or were victims of war crimes. God Bless all of them.
War is hell. At any moment you could be looking at and experiencing horror and death. It's nearly impossible to repair that kind of stress and mental health damage in such a short period of time. As men, to assault the women of the enemy is almost a natural primal instinct/inclination as a result of the PTSD. I'm not saying that this is right, but being thrust into war is not right to begin with either. The politicians who send the soldiers to war are to blame for all the atrocities that occur.
My father was in Berlin after the war for studies in tecnique. He was horribled over how the american soldiers treated the women. So it was not only the russians that behavied bad. When he tried to interfer he got problem.
@Quisqualis683 and does that mean the Germans deserve no Sympathy? No matter wether the Germans started it it was the Allies who perfected it and committed it on a scale that would have even shocked many Nazis.
If only that was the worst of WWII ..As I look at the present day destruction of our country I have concluded General Patton was right when he said “we fought the wrong side”
War desensitises some people, morals they once upheld are left laying amongst the ruins they have walked over and only picked up again when they return home talking of having fought an honourable and just war.
Damn War breeds brutality and retaliation against Civilians. The fact that modern wars fought by Modern armies includes that too is disturbing as hell. At least we no longer capture people as slaves like we used too, right?, I think.
Somehow cruelty resides in some, and the demons inside shall eventually come. Their lust for strength and utter control, dictates their actions and they as a whole. Their sheer infliction of torture and pain, is not fathomed to those who are sane. So we pray for a much more loving place, here on this pebble just flying through space.
My mother lived I East Germay she said the Russian soldiers were always kind to the children. It ashamed I other parts of Germany these women had to suffer.
I think it’s difficult to get across on YT exactly what happened due to the number of words you can’t say in a video. The atrocities committed during this era of human history are sometimes difficult to comprehend. Yes the Nazis did commit atrocities but all sides did. The majority of victims during this period were not soldiers but civilians. And these victims were burned alive, bombed tortured, raped irradiated and so on across the globe not just in Europe. Most of that generation were so traumatised they wanted to prevent anything like it happening again.
It's surprising Europeans got tired of war at all. Millions were massacred during The Thirty Years' War in the 17th century between Protestants and Catholics. Whole villages were wiped out. They just go through cycles that repeat over and over.
@@tanler7953 We are closer together today (with the exception of the English). The European Union has brought us together in an economic and political interdependence. Where I live in a small Spanish town, I never have heard anyone criticize another European country and we welcome visitors from Europe all the time. In fact, our local TV provider has many channels broadcasting from other countries live from England, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. We do not require passports to visit each other. I do notice the people of one country do read a press which hates Europe and that is England.
@@jean6872 I'm happy you're getting along with your European neighbors. My grandparents came from a small community just outside Dnepro. They left after Russian soldiers ransacked the town, bullied and killed a few of the villagers. That was 120 years ago. They're still fighting Russians.
My wife is German. Her grandmother fled East Prussia (Germany) with nothing but two small children and a baby after it was given to the USSR. She walked 800 miles to Bavaria (the only part of Germany that wasn't bombed into oblivion). Along the way she was raped 17 times by Allied Troops and buried two out of the three children. She made it to Bavaria with my wife's father, the baby, whom she had a very co-dependent relationship with. In many ways, todays German people, who nothing to do with the war, carry the emotional and psychological scars of the war from the their parents and grandparents.
They carry the memory of not to do it again. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” They lost. Good that they remember.
I read that American troops trained for France were told that "French girls were easy" as a way to excite them. I imagine these boys were pretty young and inexperienced. But this film explains the state French girls were in by 1944: hungry, worn out, ravaged.
We have some of the most violent people in the world living in the United States and a lot of the comments act like us Americans are so nice and friendly and not violent! Man this country is going to hell for all the sins committed in our borders!
I had friends from Germany who told me what happened when the Brit soldiers first entered their village in 1945 after Germany was defeated. The soldiers came in at first very slowly and with great trepidation and caution, carrying their guns cocked and aloft, poking every haystack and bush, until they were sure the area was safe and there were no German soldiers left hiding out there. Once they took control however, they behaved in a very disciplined manner and didn't assault anyone. One time after searching a house they found an air rifle and all hell broke loose until it was explained to them it was the young son's who was just using it to shoot birds and was of no danger to them. Later on, often, the little children used to run up to the soldiers stationed there and taunt them in their broken English with "You have a bird!" from the German idiom "Du hast einen vogel" meaning "You're crazy!". This of course left the soldiers somewhat bemused, the children not realising the direct translation has no meaning in English.
The problem is the German people benefited from the barbarism of the Nazi soldiers. So when the table was turned and the German people found themselves on the bad end, they had no right to complain or whine or demand different treatment. Many of the things that had been sent home to Germany from the conquered countries like Poland were taken with brutal force from people’s homes. Suddenly the shoe was on the other foot. Lesson is: Don’t start fights to begin with. If you lose, you can lose everything. And you deserve it. That’s what happened to Germany.
@@sheldonwheaton881 you hopefully realize how bizarre you sound here. You actually accuse someone of being both a Nazi and a Bolshevik for criticizing the Nazis. Something is wrong with you
@@pamtnman1515 germany and poland had an border issue since versailles treatment. After that border issue France and England escalated the conflict and declared war on germany.
@@pondusenglanq8563 I guess you studied history at the World Economic Forum taught by Black Lives Matter people, because Germany declared war on both England and France first.
This is something you don't need to prove. You know? It's like . . . oh. And some of us will feel this vicarious thrill, some of us won't. Which is why not all the allies were into that stuff. Probably safe to say, any soldier who was in Germany, at that time, was in a bad situation. Better to be back home, painting an aircraft wing or something. Course. The soldiers, who remember or took part in, are gone. Might be interesting to find out which nation's soldiers were the biggest opportunists. Chances are, only the Germans know, now.
no, Germans do not know , even today, they again dream about Great Germany, and of course, war will again start in Serbia, somehow they hate us the most of all others.....
Animals are better behaved than Russian soldiers during WW II and even today. You quite rightly referred to Stalin's quote that rape was allowed. For most Germans and Eastern Europeans the so called end of the war was just the beginning.
The german people, my people, have experienced so much hardship in life; whats funny, when people think of the germans during ww2, they automatically think of all the horrible stuff they have done; but not once has anyone truly sat down and thought of their reasoning; citizens just dont wake up over night wanting to exterminate, their has to be a breaking point. No one talks about the brutality towards german citizens that poland has done along their borders during 1918-1919, where the allies had made german citizans addicted to alcohol, pornography and degeneracy through the 1920s, or how no one truly discusses about the book burnings during 1933 and how germany was in such a horrible poverish state due to the article agreements that European crountries drafted and proposed on the german citizens until the day they refused their currency system creating their own. No one wants to talk about the 24 peace treaties they sent out to the allies before 39, not many people realize that most of the Nawtsies where majority worried about russia and stalin; or how churchill pushed for the war to happen by doing forest burns along the border edges, no because their all perfect people. But yes, lets just pretend that the millions of germans that where killed, and forcing the entire race to be made the bad guy in all of this, and nothing ever happened with the allies, because as they day, good guys always win history right?
It is sad, I was told by a sergeant from the US army that landed in Normandy, the Germans needed to understand what it means to be an occupied country, it has helped them avoid invading Poland again, all these years
