Sadly the Germans were doing the same things earlier in the war! Doesn't make it right that German women were abused but that is the other side of the issue! Both sides took bestiality to a whole new level considering the so called modern age we lived in at the time! WW2 was a war that should not of been fought, the leaders on both sides whipped up their population for war. What was the ending? We traded Hitler, Mussolini & Tojo for Chairman Mao & Stalin! Chairman Mao & Stalin arguably killed more individuals than Hitler & his henchmen. So what did the world gain by all of the death and destruction of WW2? We exchanged one group of homicidal maniacs for another! I am not sure what was gained by all that worldwide suffering!
@@kickit59 it is historically accurate that some german soldiers did commit rape, it is also part of historical record that german military punished its soldiers for it, and hung many of those guilty of it. however, it was nothing compared to the sheer scale and implementation of weaponized rape as state policy like what the soviets employed. to claim otherwise is to gaslight for political reasons.... the nazis were bad people, the soviets however, were far more evil, so too is their politics. nazis murdered 11 million people. the communists murdered over 100 million.
It's pretty well documented. No one wants to talk about it. The rule wasn't '8 to 80'. It was "take whatever you want from whoever you want because they deserve it." Stalin gave his soldiers a green light to do it, and it was encouraged up and down the ranks of the military. This video presents it like it was equal in scale. It wasn't at all. Not even close.
I worked on a lovely old lady's home in NW Washington a few...decades ago, who had turned out to be Dutch and had worked as a nurse in Java and had been captured by the Japanese in 1941 and spent the duration of the war in captivity. I will say this - she was the most formidable and forthright lady I'd ever met. She had endured the most unspeakable acts by what was at the time a most vicious enemy, yet not only survived... but thrived in the post-war world. I will never forget her or her stories, nor the life inspiration she gave me.
The Dutch woman would still have scars and memories that hurt her if a dream or thoughts bring back her past. Time does not erase the grief and pain, but time makes it easier to compartmentalise it.
I wonder if she was in the same pow women's camp that darlene diebler rose was at. Seems likely. There couldn't have been to many in the south pacific. Darlene was in paupau new guinea
My Grandmother was a WW2 warden in London and had sent her children to evacuation centres in the West Country including my Mother. As a warden she helped people and pulled the dead, dying and injured from bombed out rubble. She too was a formidable woman and was often misunderstood after the war. Only in later years did I understand what she. had done, she along with so many women of that time were forgotten heroines of the war.
When I was at university in England back in the 90s, I had a housemate from Germany. Thekla was from Magdeburg and she told me about the experiences of her great-grandparents and the women in her city. One day, Thekla was in a pub and a man heard her accent and asked where she was from. On hearing that she was German, he told her, "you killed my grandfather." There was an argument, where she, as a 20 year old, tried to explain what happened to German women at the hands of the Russians, the man replied, "good! You deserved it!" So, if this attitude persisted in people in England in the 1990s, it is easy to understand why so few German women spoke about what happened.
I'm not denying any individual cases or this happening, but there is a huge inversion of reality in modern public perception of events. What Germans have done in Eastern Europe, which every soldier in the Red Army witnessed personally on their advance towards Berlin, as compared to the allied advance across Western Europe, would force any rational human being expect the completely opposite outcome in violence against German civilians, compared to what really happened. The attitude of commanders and harshness of punishments for such behavior of soldiers by the government was completely backwards if you don't account for ideological and cultural fundamental differences between communist and capitalist societies. People get shot in the field by their direct superiors or comrades for this stuff in Russia because they are one community that reflect on each other. In the West they are all individuals and unless it's your job, you don't care what others do on their own time. Just be on time and ready to do your work. The official, army ran brothels for US servicemen for most of US history anywhere US had a military base, should be an obvious indicator. Veteran memoirs clearly show that Soviet troops felt disgusted by Germans, which was later replaced by pity. They knew what Germans used to be, after all most of Russian tzars were basically considered saints for centuries and they where largely Germans, and they witnessed how low the entire nation have sunk. There was no widespread hatred or desire for revenge in Soviet society. They simply couldn't comprehend how this ethical degeneration happened and so they avoided any contact with Germans for over a decade, like how you would treat an insane person or a plague carrier. Alienation is the harshest punishment you can experience. That's why in later decades East Germans were the most loyal friends to Russians of all Eastern Block people. There was a lot of guilt to undo for all the Germans, that their already worse off Eastern fraction had to shoulder alone. Fraternizing with the locals was always extremely discouraged and there was almost no hope of long term relationship. You could not really marry so it was guaranteed heartbreak for both sides in a year or two. Commiting something like a rape would destroy your reputation and was completely unforgivable, as you were discrediting the entire Red Army with such shameful behavior. Instant pariah status. Social stigma was death, like it is in any of the Eastern societies. Nazis engaged in it because they dehumanized Slavs. Soviets knew perfectly well that Germans are people... or at least used to be... and could still become again...
I feel so sorry not only for the rape victims, but for the children born of rape who grew up not belonging anywhere or to anyone. I hope they all find some sense of peace being able to talk about it.
WW2: Adolf's forces expand east " Slavic women get abused/ Poland" USSR pushes west " German women get abused" Japan enters China and Korea " abuse happens" Least abusive to women : Briton/ USA
I believe part of the problem especially then in these hideouts where the German women held together, is that men weren't around to help protect these women. They could have protected them. Real men. Masculine men.
My father was eleven years old when the Russians came through Poland. Many times Russian soldiers came to his home. He hid his two younger sisters and kept them quiet while the soldiers took turns with his mother and his older sister who was 14 years old at the time. There was no such thing as mercy or compassion.
The terrible part is that these atrocities still happen to women today anywhere there is a conflict(war) and still a blind eye is turned away from the suffering of women
Plain nonsense! Any western society had institutions focusing on such atrocities. Keep your lame victimisation nonsense to yourself. What do you think mens taxes are used for, by privileged obsessed Feminists 🙄😴💸💸💸
Its not necessarily a blind eye. Anyone who has picked up a history book knows about it. There is nothing that can be done about it. Sure if caught, with some nations, there will be consequences. Man likes to believe he has advanced through out the ages, thing is we havnt as history always repeats itself.
@@BarbaraRay-m4r This. On one hand I get trying to minimize the brutality because many civilians have no say in the matter, but expecting civility in war is borderline dumb. We can try to modernize it with all of these rules but it's still about decimating the other side at the end of the day. Throw people into a situation where they have to revert to primal savagery to survive and some pretty nasty things are bound to happen.
@@BarbaraRay-m4r men are usually the armed, why do they not terminate the highest authority they can reach that is at the core of warmongering, before a war even starts? It seems to me they believe it will be them who will exploit the other sides and only come to their senses when reality hits and blood starts pouring. At that point it is too late because they have to defend themselves now. Always the same pathetic story.
DW, thank you for having the courage to to tell this story. As an American, I never learned this in school or on television. This is what war looks like.
I've known that since I was a kid. I'm 70 now. I learned to read (Spanish) when I was 4. I read EVERYTHING printed on which I laid my eyes. I'm fluent in 4 languages. I'll likely die with with a book on my hands.
I’m looking forward to the DW theories on German atrocities. Likely it will be a 10 year series, at least 1000 episodes, like twice a week, and still it will be just a summary overview.
The first time I ever was confronted with this face to face, was working in the care for the elderly. There were so many screams and the crying felt endless. It was hard to ground them and even then, they'd ask me to hide with them. You can silence trauma for a while, but it'll surfice one day at another.
i used to help a polish catholic lady who was at aushwitz concentration camp (soz re spelling), she was a child. At 92 she was still scared of showers (my main job). When we first met she gave a v quick synopsis, so id be sensitive to her fear. What has for 14yrs stayed in my head is that she was used as a football for the germans to kick between goal posts during their freetime. she was a literal replacement for a ball.
@@neveralone1498 thanks, i did my best, u can be sure of that, she was special wonderful, kind wise lady n her end days seemed happy, peaceful n full of loved ones
The elderly woman at the end of this documentary is so right. Love heals. Unconditional love heals unconditionally. It doesn’t make the pain go away, it renders the horrible stigma more bearable. Thank you for this documentary.
@@DWDocumentary Вашей пропаганде позавидует сам доктор Геббельс. Знаете зачем американцы и англичане снова грабят Германию? Чем хуже жизнь, тем дешевле солдаты.
What saddens me is that nothing has changed. Sexual assault continues in every country on the planet. Women are shamed and perpetrators are not held accountable.
Are you perhaps a bit confused? The majority of crime victims are men... How about considering who's responsible for raising the majority of future men in Western Societies? Who's dominating public educational institutions? Ohh no, Womenz aren't responsible for anything! 😴😴😴
What's even sadder is that nothing will probably ever change. You're more than rt it's happening rt now in all small wars in the world. Hamas is the latest and if the Israel army cud do it also (if they r not doing it already) and get away with if they wud. But as a man myself it is beyond me how another man cud do that to a woman war or no war. Just beyond me.
@@daydays12 no one talks about that. Even Christian scholars r baffled. In the old testament God tells Moses to "kill all the Canaanites but to leave all the women young and old and do as you wish"
My German grandmother said they'd hide in the hay stacks on the farm. Didn't matter which side/army was coming through...if they came through, no good came from it.
My mother and her peers were not raped by allied forces or Russian. They were raped and abused by Queen's guard/ British army during Kenya's fight for independence. 1952-1958. God knows what women go through.
On another UA-cam documentary about the particularly brutal rapes Moroccan soldiers committed against Italian women I felt compelled to make this comment, so I apologise for repeating myself: I'm a 59 yr old American woman. My father enlisted in WW2 when he was 17 and became a Navy Corpman and served with the Marines. When I was a kid and sitting around watching old WW2 movies with my Dad he felt compelled to tell me, "Laura not all GIs were heros. Some were liars, thieves, rapists, murderers and cowards." He also told me that the deaths portrayed by those actors were very sanitized and far more horrific so basically don't be deluded about what war is. My dad hardly ever talked about the war. I believe that ALL harm directed at women civilians by ANY troops: Germans, Soviets, Americans, British, Japanese, French, Canadian, etc. should be understood as war crimes. It happens in all wars. It happened in Vietnam. It happened in the Balkans War in the 1990s. It happened on 10/7/2024 in Israel. Innocent Palestinian women and children are being starved and blown to bits right now. There was a book about the Battle of Gettysburg called "The Killer Angels." The name comes from a story the actual and very heroic figure of Joshua Chamberlain of Maine who was an important figure in the Union victory there. Chamberlain related how he quoted a line to his Dad from Hamlet..."in action how like an angel" is man. His father replied "If he's an angel he's a murderin' angel." We as a species are that. Capable of immense good but also unspeakable depravity.
As a Vietnam veteran, I can attest that wartime memories dominate the everyday thoughts of survivors, robbing the victim of energy, often creative energy, and making the struggle for survival even more difficult. Pray for all traumatized victims, and pray that you don't become overwhelmed by affliction, count your blessings every day.
As a Vietnam-era Veteran who was married to a human trafficking survivor until she passed on after 43 years of marriage, I definitely can concur here. I cannot even imagine the total cost of what happened to us, it’s too much.😢 I do thank G-d for being in the depths and details in our lives just as He was with Job. Psalm 73.
My great-grandfather ran a potato cart in Essen at the time. Essen is a heavy steel and coal area, so there were many labor camps where Poles were forced to work. My great-grandfather and his wife secretly gave the potatoes they couldn’t sell to these Poles. When the Americans came through the city the Poles made sure that there was one of them guarding my great-grandparents’ house so that my grandmother and her sisters would not be raped and so that nothing would get stolen.
My grandmother, her mother (and grandma’s siblings, who were all children during ww2), had to hide in underground homemade hiding places made by the men to avoid being killed and raped. She experienced both Russian and German troops coming through the country. She said the germans were generally more humane than the russians. Some german troops even left money in the house for the food my grandma’s family gave them. Granted, they gave the food out of fear and hope for mercy, not because they were happy to have ‘guests’ …. But anyway even outside of war, I don’t know any woman or teenage girl who has never been at least harassed verbally throughout her life. This is the state of the world. It’s embarrassing and disgusting.
@@florencia5891 It would be Polish woman that the same attrocities were commited to Polish women from Germans and espessially bySoviets, but nobody tell this
@@virginiawolf6431And to think after the war these monsters went and lived "normal lives" probably marrying a woman who knew nothing about their barbaric past, think about that! Chilling to realise how people can literally shut off to things they don't want to, or are not convienant to remember.
Гуманные немцы убили от 27 до 35 миллионов русских. Из них солдат только 9,5 миллионов. Остальные женщины, дети и старики. Мы должны пожалеть немцев? Вы знаете что такое Хатынь?
An incredibly important subject that is severly underrespresented in discourse about war in general. Being silent and possibly having to bear a child from this atrocity is devastatingly common.
@@binder946 While it might have been voluntary, many still did out of survival. And some might have fallen in love. So not sure why people would penalize someone for either. Especially the former
The only thing not mentioned in this excellent documentary, is the fact that this repulsive criminal behavior against women and children, is still practiced to this day, but receives little attention. Monsters create wars, and wars create more monsters.......
I am not surprised the women never spoke about the rape. You have to remember at that time women were BLAMED for being raped. They were not considered victims. It’s horrific. Yes, rape should be considered a war crime!
@@justanamerican9024isolated instances in the US military in the GWoT. I forget where I saw a comparison adjusted for army size, but iirc Indian were some of the worse, Turkey also, and Serbs.
I read 'A Woman in Berlin' a few years ago and it's a true account of a woman, a journalist, who kept a diary when Berlin was occupied by the Russians in 1945. Nobody in Germany would publish it but in 1954 it was published in the US, anonymously. It was originally banned in Germany - such was the shame surrounding the "spoils of war".
@@virginiawolf6431 my husband's grandmother fled Poland at the age of 16 - sent away to Japan by her parents because of what the Bolsheviks were doing to girls and women. Terrible.
@@TheMarlinlask Get real. Israel absolutely does not allow independent verification of any of its claims and many have been proven to be nothing more than Zionist propaganda designed to demonize. You want to check into something, look into the Hannibal Directive and how it was implemented and led to the slaughter of both Palestinians and Israelis.
It will come to pass that each one of us must come before the Judgment Seat, where everyone will be accountable. Life is a trial and a proving ground, and each moment is a test.
This is “aspect” of any war! It happened in mass scale during October 7th 2023 Hamas terror attack, it is happening in Ukraine, it’s happening anywhere where “right” is defined by a gun.
My grandmother was 12 when she and her mother barely escaped the Russian army invading Danzig, hiding in the woods for 2 weeks before getting onto a refugee ship to a camp set up in Denmark- where they were given zero medical treatment and forced to do hard labor for 4 years, where thousands of women and children died. She eventually immigrated to the US and married an army cowboy, now she's 92 still living in California. She tells me to 'get ready' for what is coming. She says 'it's going to happen again.'
Unfortunately, when I see today’s world, with what’s happening in Ukraine, Palestine, and many other places in the world, I have become very pessimistic and believe that your grandmother is right. I was born in Switzerland in the post war period, and growing in a country that escaped the disaster of the two European wars of the 20th century, and in the peaceful postwar Europe, we took peace for granted. After the end of the Soviet Union, when country after country in Eastern Europe were liberated and became democratic, I was really hopeful that we were going into a world of peace. Unfortunately I have now become pessimistic.
I doubt my Grandpa was doing much raping in a Japanese forced labour camp. Not starving to death, or dying of disease, not being executed summarily, or collapsing from exhaustion was probably more on his mind.
Women and girls had always been experiencing this abuse, not only from enemy soldiers, but sometimes their own in mad times. And also, as far back, ancient roman soldiers would make three days as a ceremony conquest violating enemy women and children. It is always sad and traumatic. War seems to amplify madness and we abandon morals with it.
I live in the US and I had never heard of this happening. It is unforgivable for any allies (or anyone else) to do this to women and children. My father served in the US Airforce during WWII and never talked about it when he returned. I pray God grant the remaining survivors peace and those who have passed, the glory of heaven.No one should be shamed for a lifetime because of war.
A lot More needs to be said about this. I am American and I find this kind of behavior nothing short of barbarous. Someone out there needs to make a full feature documentary for the world to see
I remember talking to a friend about this issue a few years back. There were rapes in present day Poland, which with border changes was part of Germany back then. Her grandmother would never talk about events during the war or right after liberation. There was such a stigma and shame to any violence committed against women.
I agree with you @beddietv6139. I am 39 years old, and I've been contemplating the nature of our world and its inherent cycles. Like the chapters of history, everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is true of all experiences, including wars. They arise, peak, and eventually fade away. Similarly, time-a gift from God-allows for the unfolding of events and the ultimate revelation of reality. In our world's complex history, the Nazis committed horrendous acts driven by the darkest parts of human nature. It's a stark reminder that individuals are faced with a choice: to act with kindness or cruelty during challenging times. Those who succumb to the latter, influenced by the era's troubles, will inevitably face their consequences. Justice may seem delayed, but it is never denied. As we approach the end of our earthly journeys, a more significant judgment awaits beyond death's veil. On that day, all will stand before the ultimate judge, and every voice, once silenced by cruelty, will be heard. The victims of injustice will be present, awaiting the long-overdue justice they deserve. Our purpose here is profound yet beautifully simple-to love. We are here to cherish our planet, families, friends, countries, nature... The promise of universal justice fortifies my heart, compelling me to uphold these principles relentlessly. This belief in love and justice forms the cornerstone of my existence and is a cause I will never abandon.
......and why cant most ppl learn to change?! they are stuck in religious brainwashing & always blame/pray-for the imaginary skywizard to change human existence, instead of working together to better our civilisation
I don't think the problem is people not learning but biasing. I used to think politicians are the ones lying and manipulating but I discovered civilians themselves are pretty much hypocrites.
Those who speak are those who survived. During war here in Ukraine i was shocked to know that “raped to death” cases are frequent - trauma + infection + no fast medical service and women dies fast. Many times russian soldiers trying to get rid of bodies.
The same things happened to women from just about all ethnicities in Gaza on Oct. 7th. These things should be deemed war crimes/crimes against humanity. It's a story as old as time. Women are always brutalized during war
@@oseck10What do you mean with your comment ? What russians have done and are still doing in Ukraine at this moment is a fact not russophobia. Don’t try to justify the actions of your fellow russian citizens
My father was in Germany at this time waiting to be sent back home. However he understood German. He grew up in rural Nebraska. Both his parents spoke plattdeutsch even though all were born in te U.S. He passed 3 years ago at the age of 102. The last time I talked to him he spoke of his time in the army. He had done this before but this time he spoke in more detail. He was always very honest. Without giving any examples he said that some of the things the Germans did, we did them too. He had difficulty hearing and I didn't want to interrupt him. I just wanted him to talk.
I know a lovely German lady from Hamburg and she told me how her elderly unarmed father was shot and killed by the British Army as the family emerged from their cellar. Terrible times.
Despite the opening warning message, I can only bear to watch this documentary in short segments. It's just too intense and painful to watch all at once. I'm grateful to the documentary film makers and especially to the victims for recording this historical document. For the sake of those who lived through this horror, we owe them our attention, even if it's for a few minutes at a time.
Thank you for your comment. These documentaries are very, very hard to watch. It is important that these stories be told, however. Anyone who thinks "our side" didn't or wouldn't do such a thing need only look at actual historical accounts. Civilians (from all sides) suffer in war.
There is nothing new here. This has been part of war since time began. Take a look at what Germans did to the Russian and French women. Or what the Japanese did to Korean or Chinese woman. Every war is the same.
Old Czechoslovakian here . My grandma was almost 90 when she died (10teqrs ago) she used to say the same they fear more Russian than Germans or Americans
@@JesseJoyce-cj2xgYes, I realized early in life that unless I became autodidactic I would not get an education. I finished the ninth grade before thrown into the streets by my sadistic father. I was always reading. I always had at least one book on me. Later, I would go to the university or college and take entrance exams. I always passed with high marks. Never stopped reading or learning. What passes as education in our country is almost laughable. Almost. It's really more pathetic. A weird telling of lies and fairy tales...history. I don't think so. Unless the Vatican gives up all the miles of books that they hoard and hide, the truth will always be elusive.
@@miapdx503You can apply to to read the books in the Vatican archives if you like. They have made them free to access and historians are devouring them.
God help those that have suffered from the terrible atrocities of war, nobody was immune and no country was innocent. This should serve as a reminder of how nobody ever wins when wars are fought, pray for peace.
My great aunt hid inside a closet as her neighbor was horrifically raped and murdered by Russian soldiers. They were country teenagers.....14...15...GIRLS....and she escaped with major trauma. Raping, torturing, and killing young girls who had zero power and barely knew what was going on in a small town in Bavaria is a war crime, period. Women and girls being treated as 'things'....or possessions to punish men is sickening. My father's family was in the resistance, and their punishment was brutal....and then after the war, they were brutalized.
@@madison-Roccoa-Mason-drake глупость это не оскорбление, глупость и выдумки это глупость, так как Бавария это американская зона оккупации. И да же временно Советские войска там не присутствовали, данный комментарий просто сказка, которая опровергается простыми фактами.
I wanted to comment "I was thinking the same" Lets be honest here It really were not "Allied " soldiers that did most of the time, it was Russians One Evil regime was replaced by another.
My great-grandmother was raped by Russian soldiers in Romania during the ww2 as she was returning to her home from her hiding place to forage for food for her children. They lived close to the front and armies passing by. The soldiers were merciless and shameless. I believe in justice after death as well as during life and so I know it will not go unpunished. It took a great deal of courage for her to share her story with my grandmother and for us to know of this today. It will not be forgotten.
Приключения румынских солдат на территории СССР будут забыты? В Одессе румынских карателей ненавидели больше, чем немцев. Они там творили просто чудовищные вещи.
It has a reason that citizins of Berlin refer to the statue of the Russian soldier in Berlin as the statue of the unknown rapist (instead of unknown soldier).
This hurts soooo much watching and I'm not even German I'm an Arab Muslim but this kills me. Women and children should always be left alone at all cost but sadly this is still happening in warzones around the world
My mother fled from baden to minnesota shortly after the war ended. I found this very interesting and consider myself and my siblings very fortunate that she was able to take care of herself through that difficult period of time.
When one researches WW2, esp. the worst atrocities of the Eastern Front, the horrific crimes of the Japanese military in the Asia Pacific, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and now this documentary of the despicable treatment of German women by the Allied soldiers; all of this and more leads me on to these conclusions. ~ The Apocalyse of Humankind. ~~ We live in a post-apocalyptic age. ~~~ The human psyche is permanently damaged by this war and its aftermath ~~~ 😢
All I want to say is thank you to everyone for your insightful commentary. I cannot add anything to the wisdom that is already been shared. So all I can say is thank you to those of you who shared yours
I have heard stories of troops in recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are even stories of female troops getting raped by allied soldiers in their own camps.
Growing up in Northern California, I had a few friends whose mothers were German War Brides. One of my best friends' mother was almost a second mother to me. When I was a small child and my mother had to go to work, my sisters and I were watched by a German War Bride named "Rosie." I have a vivid memory of her face close to mine on one sunny day. I later realized that the reason I remembered it was because she had just kissed me. One of our family's best friends was the Keplers, who while not war refugees were the kindest people I ever met as a young boy, and I remember them with great affection.
My family was from Prussia. My grandmother and father were separated. She had to flee with my uncle who was 6 and still remembers to this day. I can only imagine what she had to tolerate.
I mean, this is public knowledge in Germany and has always been. I was really interested in history as a teenager and would read historical novels etc., some of which set in that time and these events would be part of (but usually not central to) the storyline. Older relatives would also talk about it. There are also lots of documentaries on TV about events from during and after the war and they neither shy away from discussing atrocities committed by Germans nor from discussing German suffering.
Can you do a documentary on David Mcbride? He’s currently facing life in prison for reporting war crimes in the Australian army, and the federal judges have stated “there’s no excuse for exposing those crimes”, meanwhile soldiers that have been proven in court that they committed war crimes (Ben Robert smith), get to walk freely in society.
That's a lie. We call that atrocity propaganda. The CCP is famous for lying, infact the famous event in Dec 1937 was never mentioned anywhere, including in the Tokyo trials, until after 1946. 9 years later. Furthermore the math would make it impossible. 300K in a city of 175K or less? Doesn't add up. Look up the Gegenmiao massacre, something that actually happened.
@@BunnyWatson-k1w…no how bout go ask a bunch of the Chinese women children old people what they thought of the Japanese invaders and if they shouldntve dropped the bombs and just let them keep staying over in china.
My mother-in-law was a baby when Russia was bearing down on Eastern Germany. Her mother and two older sisters fled on foot toward Western Germany but her mothers plan in case she didn’t make it out in time was to wade into the sea and drown her daughters and herself before she would allow the Russians to have them. Imagine having to make decisions like this for your baby girls.
Do you know realize why in the last 800 years Hindu widows would burn themselves on their dead husband's funeral pyres in India? - it was to escape being polluted by Muslim & Christian invaders.
Heart-wrenching documentary was a good watch and a learning experience. I was born of parents whose families fled the war & even though I was not yet born at the time, the 'memory' of WW2 was strong in my life and I actively sought to research its history. I only wish younger generations of today would also be so agrressive into digging into its history, for there is ALOT for humanity to learn from this horrible war & how it ripped an entire continent to pieces.
And yet still blind to what's unfolding in Gaza with the direct complicity of Europe! A tragedy born of the evils of Europe! Poster child of cognitive dissonance!
@@ravenblack7052 While I personally am NOT oblivious to the carnage in Gaza today by any means, it doesn't even compare to the 20+ MILLION humans who lost their lives in World War II. Perhaps we might agree on one thing: butchering human lives whether it's only a few, thousands, or millions is wrong on so many levels and human beings should learn to get along and unite before we eradicate our existence from this planet via wars or pollution/climate-change.
Fighting over that land has been going on long before Europe even existed. Haven’t you ever noticed when people start arguing over the topic it often results in a fight about ancient wars? It would be as if rapes and killings were still happening over World War II.
Sadly, the only way you’ll get younger generations of today interested in the history of WW2 is if it was brought out in video game format - God help us all 🙏
As a man i am so disgusted at this. No matter what anyone has done, prison or their guilt are the biggest punishment. But the issue is that i belive most of these victims were completly innocent. No one deserves this, no matter if they did a crime or not. I am so sorry to whoever was humiliated by this. But this was not the last war this was done, it is done even today. May God punish those who have done such horrible deeds.
This video throws ice cold water on the warm-hearted stories we often hear about how benevolent & generous the Americans were as they liberated communities. Yet, this cold water bath is necessary to get a more realistic picture of the brutality of that war.
my father fought in WW2. No disgusting accusations of rape will soil his memory. The people who were liberated were so thankful to the British ARMY. and to my Father, a British Officer and a gentleman . Those that try and dishonor our war dead and impute that British soldiers raped civilians are below contempt. God Save the King.
“He who fights too long against monsters becomes a monster himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
My grandmother was born in 1927, and ultimately married an occupational troop member and moved to America. A young woman during all of this. This context is so important to understand and never forget.
It's no wonder the level of generation and ancestral trauma pretty much all of freaking us carry to this day and the level of ptsd our grandparents had to live with and mostly passed on to us. Back then, and still today, but to an astoundingly high degree, people were either commiting atrocities agains each other or reacting poorly and making matters even worse for themselves, like the girls who jumped out of a window and injured themselves, or the mothers and stepfathers who projected blame and shame onto their own children. The dark ages of emotional and psychological health is what I'd call ours and our forefather's times.
I'm American. My ex girlfriend is from Germany and she told me about stories of her grandmother and the other women around that time that had to flee because the Russians where closing in and everyone knew how they behaved. Oddly enough I ended marrying a Russian afterwards.
Veterans wouldn't talk about the war not just because of the things happened on the battlefield, but also what happened off the battlefield. It's about thing they saw or what their mates done. War made men go mad. But a crime is still a crime, no matter what is the excuse.
In Kenya, the Kikuyu tribe has light skin people especially those who lived around Nairobi. It is as a result of the unholy union between the British army of the 1950s and the woman of Kikuyu whose husbands were fighting the MAU MAU liberation war.
@DW Documentary if you really want to explore "taboo topics" then please make a documentary on the spread of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws across Europe, and how those laws cause untold suffering to Palestine today...
For the life of me ill never understand why a man would do this to a woman. For all we fought to liberate only to have this tarnish on history. In my eyes that is equal to the warcrimes hitler and the ss commited. I know this dont make it any better for those affected but the day is coming when all mankind will be judged and dealt with. As an american whose ancestors fought every conflict the us has ever had. It disgust me and i can only hope that any one of my 3 uncles that served in that part of the european theatre did not participate. My deepest apologies to those females who were violated. I hope that peace found all of you!😢
I will never understand it either. It seems to be a fact of life that a certain percentage of people will act without moral conscience and/or be devoid of empathy. This is an explanation, not an excuse. The failure is on commanders who do not to take adequate measures to prevent widespread atrocities or to investigate or punish the crimes that they failed to stop. There will always be a certain number of bad actors and unfortunately war provides a cover for them to be at their worst. However the actual condoning of atrocities or the encouragement of them is the greatest crime of all.
ALL Women are treated as spoils of war. It's despicable. Their men are not there to protect them. The various troops all go home to their wives as heroes.
The film A Woman in Berlin does an excellent and terrifying job of dramatizing abhorrent crimes like those described here. It is a sanitized version in my opinion, because the level of horror and despair cannot truly be captured in a film.
So is “Come and See” talks about the millions of horrible crimes against women children older people EVERYone of the poor russian/slavs that the germans invaded, graped, burnt etc comparable to what Japanese did to the Chinese.. sad
This is the dark side of war so few people ever really understand. This happened throughout Yugoslavia during the war. War brings out the worst in people.
“Pirates are evil? Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history. Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values. Those who stand at the top determine whats wrong and whats right. This very place is a neutral ground! Justice will prevail you say? But of course it will! Those who win the war become the justice!” -Dofflamingo
It’s interesting how I as German have mainly heard of these monstrosities and rapes from the Soviet side but never really of the Allies as they were (and often still are) presented as the liberators of the century and are therefore not connected to such crimes.
Rape should be recognized as a war crime and a crime against humanity. Period.
it is already recognized as a crime, that is good enough
They were nazi women, who cares given what they supported
It is
Sadly the Germans were doing the same things earlier in the war! Doesn't make it right that German women were abused but that is the other side of the issue! Both sides took bestiality to a whole new level considering the so called modern age we lived in at the time! WW2 was a war that should not of been fought, the leaders on both sides whipped up their population for war. What was the ending? We traded Hitler, Mussolini & Tojo for Chairman Mao & Stalin! Chairman Mao & Stalin arguably killed more individuals than Hitler & his henchmen. So what did the world gain by all of the death and destruction of WW2? We exchanged one group of homicidal maniacs for another! I am not sure what was gained by all that worldwide suffering!
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it is historically accurate that some german soldiers did commit rape, it is also part of historical record that german military punished its soldiers for it, and hung many of those guilty of it.
however, it was nothing compared to the sheer scale and implementation of weaponized rape as state policy like what the soviets employed.
to claim otherwise is to gaslight for political reasons.... the nazis were bad people, the soviets however, were far more evil, so too is their politics.
nazis murdered 11 million people. the communists murdered over 100 million.
Many of these "women" were actually girls. A 14-yr old is not a woman, she is a child. Guaranteed there were younger girls, too.
When I was in college, the feminists told me that any female who has menstruated is a "woman." As a father, I agree with you. But which is it?
Facts.
It's pretty well documented. No one wants to talk about it. The rule wasn't '8 to 80'. It was "take whatever you want from whoever you want because they deserve it." Stalin gave his soldiers a green light to do it, and it was encouraged up and down the ranks of the military. This video presents it like it was equal in scale. It wasn't at all. Not even close.
(((Allies))) would never do anything wrong.
Meanwhile a 24-yr old is a "child" in Gaza.
That's how Israel was able to kill so many "children".
I worked on a lovely old lady's home in NW Washington a few...decades ago, who had turned out to be Dutch and had worked as a nurse in Java and had been captured by the Japanese in 1941 and spent the duration of the war in captivity. I will say this - she was the most formidable and forthright lady I'd ever met. She had endured the most unspeakable acts by what was at the time a most vicious enemy, yet not only survived... but thrived in the post-war world. I will never forget her or her stories, nor the life inspiration she gave me.
Write her story down please
The Dutch woman would still have scars and memories that hurt her if a dream or thoughts bring back her past. Time does not erase the grief and pain, but time makes it easier to compartmentalise it.
I wonder if she was in the same pow women's camp that darlene diebler rose was at. Seems likely. There couldn't have been to many in the south pacific. Darlene was in paupau new guinea
Can you share one story that she told you?
My Grandmother was a WW2 warden in London and had sent her children to evacuation centres in the West Country including my Mother. As a warden she helped people and pulled the dead, dying and injured from bombed out rubble. She too was a formidable woman and was often misunderstood after the war. Only in later years did I understand what she. had done, she along with so many women of that time were forgotten heroines of the war.
When I was at university in England back in the 90s, I had a housemate from Germany. Thekla was from Magdeburg and she told me about the experiences of her great-grandparents and the women in her city. One day, Thekla was in a pub and a man heard her accent and asked where she was from. On hearing that she was German, he told her, "you killed my grandfather." There was an argument, where she, as a 20 year old, tried to explain what happened to German women at the hands of the Russians, the man replied, "good! You deserved it!" So, if this attitude persisted in people in England in the 1990s, it is easy to understand why so few German women spoke about what happened.
Tbf, wouldn't they have been the beneficiaries of millions of slaughtered victims if the Nazis won?
I never did like the Brits.
As people like to say... "But it didn't happen in a vacuum there's a context"
What a horrible man. Your poor friend.
I'm not denying any individual cases or this happening, but there is a huge inversion of reality in modern public perception of events.
What Germans have done in Eastern Europe, which every soldier in the Red Army witnessed personally on their advance towards Berlin, as compared to the allied advance across Western Europe, would force any rational human being expect the completely opposite outcome in violence against German civilians, compared to what really happened. The attitude of commanders and harshness of punishments for such behavior of soldiers by the government was completely backwards if you don't account for ideological and cultural fundamental differences between communist and capitalist societies.
People get shot in the field by their direct superiors or comrades for this stuff in Russia because they are one community that reflect on each other. In the West they are all individuals and unless it's your job, you don't care what others do on their own time. Just be on time and ready to do your work.
The official, army ran brothels for US servicemen for most of US history anywhere US had a military base, should be an obvious indicator.
Veteran memoirs clearly show that Soviet troops felt disgusted by Germans, which was later replaced by pity. They knew what Germans used to be, after all most of Russian tzars were basically considered saints for centuries and they where largely Germans, and they witnessed how low the entire nation have sunk. There was no widespread hatred or desire for revenge in Soviet society. They simply couldn't comprehend how this ethical degeneration happened and so they avoided any contact with Germans for over a decade, like how you would treat an insane person or a plague carrier. Alienation is the harshest punishment you can experience. That's why in later decades East Germans were the most loyal friends to Russians of all Eastern Block people. There was a lot of guilt to undo for all the Germans, that their already worse off Eastern fraction had to shoulder alone.
Fraternizing with the locals was always extremely discouraged and there was almost no hope of long term relationship. You could not really marry so it was guaranteed heartbreak for both sides in a year or two. Commiting something like a rape would destroy your reputation and was completely unforgivable, as you were discrediting the entire Red Army with such shameful behavior. Instant pariah status. Social stigma was death, like it is in any of the Eastern societies. Nazis engaged in it because they dehumanized Slavs. Soviets knew perfectly well that Germans are people... or at least used to be... and could still become again...
I feel so sorry not only for the rape victims, but for the children born of rape who grew up not belonging anywhere or to anyone. I hope they all find some sense of peace being able to talk about it.
Same thing is happening in Ukraine right now.
@@wordscapes5690do you remember Serbrenica in Bosnia Herzegovina??
@@muhammadrehanmubashir1363 I'm old enough to remember that
WW2:
Adolf's forces expand east " Slavic women get abused/ Poland"
USSR pushes west " German women get abused"
Japan enters China and Korea " abuse happens"
Least abusive to women : Briton/ USA
I believe part of the problem especially then in these hideouts where the German women held together, is that men weren't around to help protect these women. They could have protected them. Real men. Masculine men.
My father was eleven years old when the Russians came through Poland. Many times Russian soldiers came to his home. He hid his two younger sisters and kept them quiet while the soldiers took turns with his mother and his older sister who was 14 years old at the time. There was no such thing as mercy or compassion.
This is so sad.
May God judge those wicked people.
"Took Turns".....
@@tharnganbenedict24 One good thing does not compensate all the bad things mate.
@@tharnganbenedict24 Are you serious?
The terrible part is that these atrocities still happen to women today anywhere there is a conflict(war) and still a blind eye is turned away from the suffering of women
Plain nonsense! Any western society had institutions focusing on such atrocities.
Keep your lame victimisation nonsense to yourself.
What do you think mens taxes are used for, by privileged obsessed Feminists 🙄😴💸💸💸
Its not necessarily a blind eye. Anyone who has picked up a history book knows about it. There is nothing that can be done about it. Sure if caught, with some nations, there will be consequences. Man likes to believe he has advanced through out the ages, thing is we havnt as history always repeats itself.
"suffering of women" 😂 Yea and what is happening to men and LITTLE BOYS? They were forced to fight and be blown apart in many cases.
@@BarbaraRay-m4r This. On one hand I get trying to minimize the brutality because many civilians have no say in the matter, but expecting civility in war is borderline dumb. We can try to modernize it with all of these rules but it's still about decimating the other side at the end of the day. Throw people into a situation where they have to revert to primal savagery to survive and some pretty nasty things are bound to happen.
@@BarbaraRay-m4r men are usually the armed, why do they not terminate the highest authority they can reach that is at the core of warmongering, before a war even starts? It seems to me they believe it will be them who will exploit the other sides and only come to their senses when reality hits and blood starts pouring. At that point it is too late because they have to defend themselves now. Always the same pathetic story.
DW, thank you for having the courage to to tell this story. As an American, I never learned this in school or on television. This is what war looks like.
Same. I am an American who has read and learned much about history. Somehow never before heard these stories. This is horrific.
You weren't paying attention then.... it was taught.
I've known that since I was a kid. I'm 70 now.
I learned to read (Spanish) when I was 4.
I read EVERYTHING printed on which I laid my eyes. I'm fluent in 4 languages. I'll likely die with with a book on my hands.
@@backwoodsbaby9729 not in pa. I know people from around my state. This isnt taught to us
I’m looking forward to the DW theories on German atrocities.
Likely it will be a 10 year series, at least 1000 episodes, like twice a week, and still it will be just a summary overview.
The first time I ever was confronted with this face to face, was working in the care for the elderly.
There were so many screams and the crying felt endless. It was hard to ground them and even then, they'd ask me to hide with them.
You can silence trauma for a while, but it'll surfice one day at another.
i used to help a polish catholic lady who was at aushwitz concentration camp (soz re spelling), she was a child. At 92 she was still scared of showers (my main job). When we first met she gave a v quick synopsis, so id be sensitive to her fear. What has for 14yrs stayed in my head is that she was used as a football for the germans to kick between goal posts during their freetime. she was a literal replacement for a ball.
@@kim-ys2fsLord have mercy, that poor lady. 😢
@@melindaunknown6411 i know!
I will NEVER forget her or what she endured
@@kim-ys2fs Horrific. I'm glad you were there for her at the end of her life to treat her gently.
@@neveralone1498 thanks, i did my best, u can be sure of that, she was special wonderful, kind wise lady n her end days seemed happy, peaceful n full of loved ones
The elderly woman at the end of this documentary is so right. Love heals. Unconditional love heals unconditionally. It doesn’t make the pain go away, it renders the horrible stigma more bearable. Thank you for this documentary.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
What does "unconditional love heals unconditionally" mean?
@@DWDocumentary
Вашей пропаганде позавидует сам доктор Геббельс.
Знаете зачем американцы и англичане снова грабят Германию? Чем хуже жизнь, тем дешевле солдаты.
What saddens me is that nothing has changed. Sexual assault continues in every country on the planet. Women are shamed and perpetrators are not held accountable.
Are you perhaps a bit confused?
The majority of crime victims are men...
How about considering who's responsible for raising the majority of future men in Western Societies?
Who's dominating public educational institutions?
Ohh no, Womenz aren't responsible for anything! 😴😴😴
What's even sadder is that nothing will probably ever change. You're more than rt it's happening rt now in all small wars in the world. Hamas is the latest and if the Israel army cud do it also (if they r not doing it already) and get away with if they wud. But as a man myself it is beyond me how another man cud do that to a woman war or no war. Just beyond me.
So right. In the old testament of the Bible, for example, Yahweh tells the Israelites to do it
@@daydays12 no one talks about that. Even Christian scholars r baffled. In the old testament God tells Moses to "kill all the Canaanites but to leave all the women young and old and do as you wish"
@@joelpineda2042 Indeed! God is a great feller for sure!
I'm an American woman and feel ashamed that our military did this. Thank you for sharing these horrific stories.
I dont.
It happens in all Wars, no matter the year, all Wars 😢
My German grandmother said they'd hide in the hay stacks on the farm. Didn't matter which side/army was coming through...if they came through, no good came from it.
THIS! This is exactly all the women of my family told me who had experienced that time.
@@maejohannsebastian7142 and now ur shilling for israel
You presume too much.@@raptorhacker599
No war!
@@raptorhacker599, "and now ur shilling for israel" Who are you shilling for?
My mother and her peers were not raped by allied forces or Russian. They were raped and abused by Queen's guard/ British army during Kenya's fight for independence. 1952-1958. God knows what women go through.
It's what conservatives want.
But "it didn't happen in a vacuum. There was a context". Right?
@DenmarxIsConquoredGodHelpUs The governments may be, but Not all citizens of these countries.
@DenmarxIsConquoredGodHelpUs Also these countries don't even have the balls to start a war.
They're soyboys with loud mouths..
@@96_13....what are you talking about...
On another UA-cam documentary about the particularly brutal rapes Moroccan soldiers committed against Italian women I felt compelled to make this comment, so I apologise for repeating myself: I'm a 59 yr old American woman. My father enlisted in WW2 when he was 17 and became a Navy Corpman and served with the Marines. When I was a kid and sitting around watching old WW2 movies with my Dad he felt compelled to tell me, "Laura not all GIs were heros. Some were liars, thieves, rapists, murderers and cowards." He also told me that the deaths portrayed by those actors were very sanitized and far more horrific so basically don't be deluded about what war is. My dad hardly ever talked about the war. I believe that ALL harm directed at women civilians by ANY troops: Germans, Soviets, Americans, British, Japanese, French, Canadian, etc. should be understood as war crimes. It happens in all wars. It happened in Vietnam. It happened in the Balkans War in the 1990s. It happened on 10/7/2024 in Israel. Innocent Palestinian women and children are being starved and blown to bits right now. There was a book about the Battle of Gettysburg called "The Killer Angels." The name comes from a story the actual and very heroic figure of Joshua Chamberlain of Maine who was an important figure in the Union victory there. Chamberlain related how he quoted a line to his Dad from Hamlet..."in action how like an angel" is man. His father replied "If he's an angel he's a murderin' angel." We as a species are that. Capable of immense good but also unspeakable depravity.
war brings out the worst in humanity
The germans definitely learned the hard way that inhuman behavior can work both ways
I'm also an American woman, and this is why I don't blanket "support the troops".
Thankfully your father had a conscience and was good enough to enlighten you. I’m afraid many people ignore these horrid truths.
When did the atrocities by the Moroccans begin?
As a Vietnam veteran, I can attest that wartime memories dominate the everyday thoughts of survivors, robbing the victim of energy, often creative energy, and making the struggle for survival even more difficult. Pray for all traumatized victims, and pray that you don't become overwhelmed by affliction, count your blessings every day.
Thank you, and God bless you for your service
@rebeccacamplin698 On a video like this, you still think there is a god selectively blessing humans.
Does any God cares? Gods are product of illusions. Dont waste time waiting for blessing.
As a Vietnam-era Veteran who was married to a human trafficking survivor until she passed on after 43 years of marriage, I definitely can concur here. I cannot even imagine the total cost of what happened to us, it’s too much.😢
I do thank G-d for being in the depths and details in our lives just as He was with Job. Psalm 73.
Thank you for you service 🇺🇸
My great-grandfather ran a potato cart in Essen at the time. Essen is a heavy steel and coal area, so there were many labor camps where Poles were forced to work. My great-grandfather and his wife secretly gave the potatoes they couldn’t sell to these Poles. When the Americans came through the city the Poles made sure that there was one of them guarding my great-grandparents’ house so that my grandmother and her sisters would not be raped and so that nothing would get stolen.
🥺this story really touched me. thankyou for sharing it.
@@boop7313 Gave them their essential Essen!
It's odd, then, that Germans fled toward American forces at the end of the war.
@@SBCBears
The Soviets were worse, but the Americans were still bad.
"Not as bad as the Soviets" isn't exactly a flex.
My grandmother, her mother (and grandma’s siblings, who were all children during ww2), had to hide in underground homemade hiding places made by the men to avoid being killed and raped. She experienced both Russian and German troops coming through the country. She said the germans were generally more humane than the russians. Some german troops even left money in the house for the food my grandma’s family gave them. Granted, they gave the food out of fear and hope for mercy, not because they were happy to have ‘guests’ ….
But anyway even outside of war, I don’t know any woman or teenage girl who has never been at least harassed verbally throughout her life. This is the state of the world. It’s embarrassing and disgusting.
Where was your grandmother? Mine was in Italy and she recounted something similar.
@@florencia5891 It would be Polish woman that the same attrocities were commited to Polish women from Germans and espessially bySoviets, but nobody tell this
@@virginiawolf6431And to think after the war these monsters went and lived "normal lives" probably marrying a woman who knew nothing about their barbaric past, think about that! Chilling to realise how people can literally shut off to things they don't want to, or are not convienant to remember.
Гуманные немцы убили от 27 до 35 миллионов русских.
Из них солдат только 9,5 миллионов. Остальные женщины, дети и старики.
Мы должны пожалеть немцев?
Вы знаете что такое Хатынь?
I guess you burned your bridges with Europe @@ЕленаБасова-з8ж
An incredibly important subject that is severly underrespresented in discourse about war in general. Being silent and possibly having to bear a child from this atrocity is devastatingly common.
Ask yourself what did the Germans did to the Soviet women...? As it been from all wars "you hurt our women, we hurt yours".
@@MrMonikura The same to Polish women from Germans and Soviets, but nobody tell this
@@virginiawolf6431 Point made: War
@@MrMonikura point made: men
@@4651adriIt's funny that women were always expected to give birth to sons- the same sons who hate them and other women.
German soldiers did the same in Poland and France. Sadly women have always been treated this way during war through all of history.
I want to hear their stories too! We need to know every side’s trauma! And also in much lesser known wars!
In Ukraine and Russia too.
@@BangFarang1 Are there any writings by Russian female victims of the German army? Or were they shunned as well?
French women loved the german soldiers it wasn't forced for all
yes some did do it for food and other benefits
@@binder946 While it might have been voluntary, many still did out of survival. And some might have fallen in love. So not sure why people would penalize someone for either. Especially the former
The only thing not mentioned in this excellent documentary, is the fact that this repulsive criminal behavior against women and children, is still practiced to this day, but receives little attention. Monsters create wars, and wars create more monsters.......
I am not surprised the women never spoke about the rape. You have to remember at that time women were BLAMED for being raped. They were not considered victims. It’s horrific. Yes, rape should be considered a war crime!
Many still 😢are
Wars are fought to protect borders from those that will hurt the women and children. Once the border is lost, the women and children suffer.
Yes it should. I'm surprised it isn't.
We are often still blamed. More often than not in fact. My mother blamed me.
It is.
When have women NOT been a spoil of war?!
Now maybe
@@boslyporshy6553 Doubt it
@@boslyporshy6553just look for the social media accounts of Israeli soldiers posing with the bras of their victims.
@@justanamerican9024isolated instances in the US military in the GWoT. I forget where I saw a comparison adjusted for army size, but iirc Indian were some of the worse, Turkey also, and Serbs.
Never😢
I read 'A Woman in Berlin' a few years ago and it's a true account of a woman, a journalist, who kept a diary when Berlin was occupied by the Russians in 1945. Nobody in Germany would publish it but in 1954 it was published in the US, anonymously. It was originally banned in Germany - such was the shame surrounding the "spoils of war".
There is a movie by the same name that retells much of what the book said.
Such a amazing book
What about the same attrocities commited to Polish women from Germans and Soviets, but nobody tell this
@@virginiawolf6431 my husband's grandmother fled Poland at the age of 16 - sent away to Japan by her parents because of what the Bolsheviks were doing to girls and women. Terrible.
@@zoer7338Blessed woman. I know very well this story of Polish children sending to Japan.
Gripping accounts of terrible, unspeakable acts of violence and brutality. These brave women and men deserve our respect and compassion.
What about the Israeli hostages going hrough this today why do you ignore?
@@TheMarlinlask Get real. Israel absolutely does not allow independent verification of any of its claims and many have been proven to be nothing more than Zionist propaganda designed to demonize. You want to check into something, look into the Hannibal Directive and how it was implemented and led to the slaughter of both Palestinians and Israelis.
@@TheMarlinlask It's not a matter of ignoring, maybe just not knowing WHAT to do! Until the answer is found, it will be a state of 'limbo'. 😢
@@TheMarlinlaskthe eternal victims. You killed 41000 Palestinians. Aren’t you happy?
The Russian enemy. The enemy which you killed millions in their cities? You were the victims?
Telling that none of perpetrators of these vile crimes were ever tried as War criminals - not one .
That’s because it was too many and too far reaching. This happens in basically every single war.
Yeah that's gross af
A large number of people convicted of war crimes weren't punished for them.
It will come to pass that each one of us must come before the Judgment Seat, where everyone will be accountable. Life is a trial and a proving ground, and each moment is a test.
They can escape the courts but cannot escape from the wrath of the Living God.
This was powerful. Thank you for sharing this video. War is such a horrible thing and it goes so much deeper than we often know.
This is a sad and brutal forgotten aspect of WW2, it's good to see a documentary about it
This is “aspect” of any war! It happened in mass scale during October 7th 2023 Hamas terror attack, it is happening in Ukraine, it’s happening anywhere where “right” is defined by a gun.
@@fromfreddd8636 like the genocide perpetrated
by Israel on the Palestinians! How they forget! 🤦
I am so sorry for these women and their families.
Вы знаете что такое Хатынь?
А что такое Саласписс?
It's a shame that the victims were blamed...still happens today. I'm a survivor and I can't imagine how these strong women lived
My grandmother was 12 when she and her mother barely escaped the Russian army invading Danzig, hiding in the woods for 2 weeks before getting onto a refugee ship to a camp set up in Denmark- where they were given zero medical treatment and forced to do hard labor for 4 years, where thousands of women and children died. She eventually immigrated to the US and married an army cowboy, now she's 92 still living in California. She tells me to 'get ready' for what is coming. She says 'it's going to happen again.'
Nato troops are worse
Yikes!
Unfortunately, when I see today’s world, with what’s happening in Ukraine, Palestine, and many other places in the world, I have become very pessimistic and believe that your grandmother is right. I was born in Switzerland in the post war period, and growing in a country that escaped the disaster of the two European wars of the 20th century, and in the peaceful postwar Europe, we took peace for granted. After the end of the Soviet Union, when country after country in Eastern Europe were liberated and became democratic, I was really hopeful that we were going into a world of peace. Unfortunately I have now become pessimistic.
Unfortunately, she’s right.
As freepalestineers would say: it didn't happen in the vacuum, there's a context.
war battles on youtube always have someone saying their grandpa fought in the war, but none talked about their grandpa raping
my grampa never told me about that/
I doubt my Grandpa was doing much raping in a Japanese forced labour camp. Not starving to death, or dying of disease, not being executed summarily, or collapsing from exhaustion was probably more on his mind.
The US were the only soliders during WW2 no matter what side you were on you'd run too.
Or what happened to Grandma either...
That. That is actually...a reasonable statement after watching this.
Women and girls had always been experiencing this abuse, not only from enemy soldiers, but sometimes their own in mad times. And also, as far back, ancient roman soldiers would make three days as a ceremony conquest violating enemy women and children. It is always sad and traumatic. War seems to amplify madness and we abandon morals with it.
I live in the US and I had never heard of this happening. It is unforgivable for any allies (or anyone else) to do this to women and children. My father served in the US Airforce during WWII and never talked about it when he returned.
I pray God grant the remaining survivors peace and those who have passed, the glory of heaven.No one should be shamed for a lifetime because of war.
You must have been very naive.
@shazzaz No, she is not naive. She is a decent human being who clearly sees evil as such. Wake up
A lot More needs to be said about this. I am American and I find this kind of behavior nothing short of barbarous. Someone out there needs to make a full feature documentary for the world to see
If you find this disturbing you need to stop now...
@@captdaddy dont let him learn about Nanking
@@antonsamuelsson1317 absolutely it's so terrible...
Don't Belive this. Its impossible to get "aroused'' after salt Peter was in your food. Ask any living U.S. WW2 vet.
*US citizen
Absolutely horrific what these women went through. I have no words. The sheer lack of empathy of some humans never fails to shock me
Hmm. Can't imagine the pains these people lived through. The problem now is the world never learn. God help us all
I remember talking to a friend about this issue a few years back. There were rapes in present day Poland, which with border changes was part of Germany back then. Her grandmother would never talk about events during the war or right after liberation. There was such a stigma and shame to any violence committed against women.
I agree with you @beddietv6139. I am 39 years old, and I've been contemplating the nature of our world and its inherent cycles. Like the chapters of history, everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is true of all experiences, including wars. They arise, peak, and eventually fade away. Similarly, time-a gift from God-allows for the unfolding of events and the ultimate revelation of reality.
In our world's complex history, the Nazis committed horrendous acts driven by the darkest parts of human nature. It's a stark reminder that individuals are faced with a choice: to act with kindness or cruelty during challenging times. Those who succumb to the latter, influenced by the era's troubles, will inevitably face their consequences. Justice may seem delayed, but it is never denied.
As we approach the end of our earthly journeys, a more significant judgment awaits beyond death's veil. On that day, all will stand before the ultimate judge, and every voice, once silenced by cruelty, will be heard. The victims of injustice will be present, awaiting the long-overdue justice they deserve.
Our purpose here is profound yet beautifully simple-to love. We are here to cherish our planet, families, friends, countries, nature... The promise of universal justice fortifies my heart, compelling me to uphold these principles relentlessly.
This belief in love and justice forms the cornerstone of my existence and is a cause I will never abandon.
Now it is
......and why cant most ppl learn to change?! they are stuck in religious brainwashing & always blame/pray-for the imaginary skywizard to change human existence, instead of working together to better our civilisation
I don't think the problem is people not learning but biasing.
I used to think politicians are the ones lying and manipulating but I discovered civilians themselves are pretty much hypocrites.
Those who speak are those who survived. During war here in Ukraine i was shocked to know that “raped to death” cases are frequent - trauma + infection + no fast medical service and women dies fast. Many times russian soldiers trying to get rid of bodies.
That's horrific, to die like that, poor women
They said that russophobia is common huh😮
The same things happened to women from just about all ethnicities in Gaza on Oct. 7th. These things should be deemed war crimes/crimes against humanity. It's a story as old as time. Women are always brutalized during war
Doesn’t surprise me at all 😢
@@oseck10What do you mean with your comment ? What russians have done and are still doing in Ukraine at this moment is a fact not russophobia. Don’t try to justify the actions of your fellow russian citizens
My father was in Germany at this time waiting to be sent back home. However he understood German. He grew up in rural Nebraska. Both his parents spoke plattdeutsch even though all were born in te U.S. He passed 3 years ago at the age of 102. The last time I talked to him he spoke of his time in the army. He had done this before but this time he spoke in more detail. He was always very honest. Without giving any examples he said that some of the things the Germans did, we did them too. He had difficulty hearing and I didn't want to interrupt him. I just wanted him to talk.
Yeah, y'all were doing the same in the states...
I know a lovely German lady from Hamburg and she told me how her elderly unarmed father was shot and killed by the British Army as the family emerged from their cellar. Terrible times.
(((Allies))) gonna ally
Well ... war makes victims of EVERYBODY.
@@JLFAN2009. Would you have commented the same if it was Soviet?
Was this as the British arrived, or later, because no doubt the troops were 'jumpy' as they entered the town & accidents happened.
@@pcka12 It happened within the first day of the Allied invasion of Hamburg.
Despite the opening warning message, I can only bear to watch this documentary in short segments. It's just too intense and painful to watch all at once. I'm grateful to the documentary film makers and especially to the victims for recording this historical document. For the sake of those who lived through this horror, we owe them our attention, even if it's for a few minutes at a time.
May we never forget these crimes, and work to end it once and for all.
And yet the same evil is being perpetrated in Ukraine today 😢
@@billf4186 True. The crimes against Ukrainians are current and horrific. Thank you for that reminder.
Thank you for your comment. These documentaries are very, very hard to watch. It is important that these stories be told, however. Anyone who thinks "our side" didn't or wouldn't do such a thing need only look at actual historical accounts. Civilians (from all sides) suffer in war.
There is nothing new here. This has been part of war since time began. Take a look at what Germans did to the Russian and French women. Or what the Japanese did to Korean or Chinese woman. Every war is the same.
Old Czechoslovakian here . My grandma was almost 90 when she died (10teqrs ago) she used to say the same they fear more Russian than Germans or Americans
Nothing new here, unless you are young. History has been decimated from the educational system for decades.
Some of us young people are autodidacts.
History has always been mixed with propaganda.
Decimated lol
@@JesseJoyce-cj2xgYes, I realized early in life that unless I became autodidactic I would not get an education. I finished the ninth grade before thrown into the streets by my sadistic father. I was always reading. I always had at least one book on me. Later, I would go to the university or college and take entrance exams. I always passed with high marks. Never stopped reading or learning.
What passes as education in our country is almost laughable. Almost. It's really more pathetic. A weird telling of lies and fairy tales...history. I don't think so. Unless the Vatican gives up all the miles of books that they hoard and hide, the truth will always be elusive.
@@miapdx503You can apply to to read the books in the Vatican archives if you like. They have made them free to access and historians are devouring them.
Tragic treatment-my heart breaks for the victims, and for the resultant children that should have been treated better too.
God help those that have suffered from the terrible atrocities of war, nobody was immune and no country was innocent. This should serve as a reminder of how nobody ever wins when wars are fought, pray for peace.
My great aunt hid inside a closet as her neighbor was horrifically raped and murdered by Russian soldiers. They were country teenagers.....14...15...GIRLS....and she escaped with major trauma. Raping, torturing, and killing young girls who had zero power and barely knew what was going on in a small town in Bavaria is a war crime, period. Women and girls being treated as 'things'....or possessions to punish men is sickening. My father's family was in the resistance, and their punishment was brutal....and then after the war, they were brutalized.
Что за бред, причем тут русские. если бавария была захвачена американцами ? вы что за хрень пишите ?
all of Bavaria was taken by the US
@@СергейТурутин-ч6гsomething that is true if you find it offensive
@@madison-Roccoa-Mason-drake глупость это не оскорбление, глупость и выдумки это глупость, так как Бавария это американская зона оккупации. И да же временно Советские войска там не присутствовали, данный комментарий просто сказка, которая опровергается простыми фактами.
@@madison-Roccoa-Mason-drakeso if you find it offensive it’s all of a sudden true?
Finally, Germany talked about it.
Everything that happened to the Germans is their fault and should always be said
I was thinking of the same
Why now ? War in Ukraine...
I wanted to comment "I was thinking the same" Lets be honest here It really were not "Allied " soldiers that did most of the time, it was Russians
One Evil regime was replaced by another.
@sabbath8989 all parties in ww2 did the horrible things to poor women.
My great-grandmother was raped by Russian soldiers in Romania during the ww2 as she was returning to her home from her hiding place to forage for food for her children. They lived close to the front and armies passing by. The soldiers were merciless and shameless. I believe in justice after death as well as during life and so I know it will not go unpunished. It took a great deal of courage for her to share her story with my grandmother and for us to know of this today. It will not be forgotten.
Приключения румынских солдат на территории СССР будут забыты?
В Одессе румынских карателей ненавидели больше, чем немцев. Они там творили просто чудовищные вещи.
It has a reason that citizins of Berlin refer to the statue of the Russian soldier in Berlin as the statue of the unknown rapist (instead of unknown soldier).
Im so happy they covered this terrible moment in history. It doesn’t get enough light
“This moment in history”. This has been a common occurrence in every war through history. Nothing special about this war.
I really hope that Konrad also could find some peace. It must have been a terrible weight on his shoulders for years
15:50 this a haunting image. She is in a lot of physical and emotional pain. I hope whoever is recording her brought her to safety.
Well, that was heartbreaking.
I scarcely imagine what it was like for those who lived through it.
Brilliant documentary, thanks for making/posting this film 🙏
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
This is only scratching the surface.
Please elaborate
So many women kept their pain silent out of shame. And how many children born from these women also lived a life of incredible shame?
@@justdoit4789Not necessary, the information is out there; begin your research.
Then, when they go home to their wives and families, people thank them for their service.
It's a travesty.
My thought exactly! It's so disgusting how people glorify army and wars, especially in 'civilized' countries.
War is hell. You don't want hell ? don't go to war. But then war will come to you. Catch 22.
I believe most people who parrot those thanks are blissfully unaware of soldiers' conduct in conflict zones.
@@user-kpkxgtj Just be glad those soldiers won the war, otherwise the video story would be about you.
NEVER thank someone for killing another living being.
This hurts soooo much watching and I'm not even German I'm an Arab Muslim but this kills me. Women and children should always be left alone at all cost but sadly this is still happening in warzones around the world
Muslim here too. I agree. Women and children deserve protection.
My mother fled from baden to minnesota shortly after the war ended. I found this very interesting and consider myself and my siblings very fortunate that she was able to take care of herself through that difficult period of time.
As it said in the UN "it didn't happen in a vacuum, there's a context"
@@96_13.what are you implying?
@@erinerinerinOOO what are you implying?
A horrible end to a horrible war. In so many ways WW2 was one of the worst seasons in human history.
Absolutely-we are still experiencing intense consequences of the WW2. From Palestine/Israel to Ukraine/Russia and potentially China/Taiwan ...
No they are just new wars which try and justify their existence by bringing up World War 2 ideas. @@D-E-S_8559
When one researches WW2, esp. the worst atrocities of the Eastern Front, the horrific crimes of the Japanese military in the Asia Pacific, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and now this documentary of the despicable treatment of German women by the Allied soldiers; all of this and more leads me on to these conclusions.
~ The Apocalyse of Humankind.
~~ We live in a post-apocalyptic age.
~~~ The human psyche is permanently damaged by this war and its aftermath ~~~ 😢
, exactly: China is more organised and brutal than the Soviets were.
Very sad And depressing 😢
All I want to say is thank you to everyone for your insightful commentary. I cannot add anything to the wisdom that is already been shared. So all I can say is thank you to those of you who shared yours
Women were always considered as spoils of war.....have things changed ???
The Torah not only describes it, but approves of it.
@@nedludd7622 you spelled Koran wrong..
@@douglascampbell4993 two different book
I have heard stories of troops in recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are even stories of female troops getting raped by allied soldiers in their own camps.
The Bible's Old Testament and the books that were removed say the same thing.
Growing up in Northern California, I had a few friends whose mothers were German War Brides. One of my best friends' mother was almost a second mother to me. When I was a small child and my mother had to go to work, my sisters and I were watched by a German War Bride named "Rosie." I have a vivid memory of her face close to mine on one sunny day. I later realized that the reason I remembered it was because she had just kissed me. One of our family's best friends was the Keplers, who while not war refugees were the kindest people I ever met as a young boy, and I remember them with great affection.
My family was from Prussia. My grandmother and father were separated. She had to flee with my uncle who was 6 and still remembers to this day. I can only imagine what she had to tolerate.
Omg, i thought they would never talk about it, i was horrified after reading ' A woman in Berlin'. Absolutely evil.
It’s antisemitic to talk about it
@@aryandefenseleague8243 bull.
I mean, this is public knowledge in Germany and has always been. I was really interested in history as a teenager and would read historical novels etc., some of which set in that time and these events would be part of (but usually not central to) the storyline. Older relatives would also talk about it. There are also lots of documentaries on TV about events from during and after the war and they neither shy away from discussing atrocities committed by Germans nor from discussing German suffering.
Can you do a documentary on David Mcbride?
He’s currently facing life in prison for reporting war crimes in the Australian army, and the federal judges have stated “there’s no excuse for exposing those crimes”, meanwhile soldiers that have been proven in court that they committed war crimes (Ben Robert smith), get to walk freely in society.
This would be a service to us all if they actually covered this. I hope they do.
I feel so sorry for this old gentleman.... May God bless you
A difficult but necessary film.
War is the crime.
Also, don’t forget the Japanese did it as well
and the Chinese.
@@BunnyWatson-k1w and the Koreans
Every major conflict seems to have this tragic circumstance but the fact almost everyone in both sides.
That's a lie. We call that atrocity propaganda. The CCP is famous for lying, infact the famous event in Dec 1937 was never mentioned anywhere, including in the Tokyo trials, until after 1946.
9 years later. Furthermore the math would make it impossible. 300K in a city of 175K or less? Doesn't add up.
Look up the Gegenmiao massacre, something that actually happened.
@@BunnyWatson-k1w…no how bout go ask a bunch of the Chinese women children old people what they thought of the Japanese invaders and if they shouldntve dropped the bombs and just let them keep staying over in china.
My mother-in-law was a baby when Russia was bearing down on Eastern Germany. Her mother and two older sisters fled on foot toward Western Germany but her mothers plan in case she didn’t make it out in time was to wade into the sea and drown her daughters and herself before she would allow the Russians to have them. Imagine having to make decisions like this for your baby girls.
Do you know realize why in the last 800 years Hindu widows would burn themselves on their dead husband's funeral pyres in India? - it was to escape being polluted by Muslim & Christian invaders.
Heart-wrenching documentary was a good watch and a learning experience. I was born of parents whose families fled the war & even though I was not yet born at the time, the 'memory' of WW2 was strong in my life and I actively sought to research its history. I only wish younger generations of today would also be so agrressive into digging into its history, for there is ALOT for humanity to learn from this horrible war & how it ripped an entire continent to pieces.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
And yet still blind to what's unfolding in Gaza with the direct complicity of Europe! A tragedy born of the evils of Europe!
Poster child of cognitive dissonance!
@@ravenblack7052 While I personally am NOT oblivious to the carnage in Gaza today by any means, it doesn't even compare to the 20+ MILLION humans who lost their lives in World War II. Perhaps we might agree on one thing: butchering human lives whether it's only a few, thousands, or millions is wrong on so many levels and human beings should learn to get along and unite before we eradicate our existence from this planet via wars or pollution/climate-change.
Fighting over that land has been going on long before Europe even existed. Haven’t you ever noticed when people start arguing over the topic it often results in a fight about ancient wars? It would be as if rapes and killings were still happening over World War II.
Sadly, the only way you’ll get younger generations of today interested in the history of WW2 is if it was brought
out in video game format - God help us all 🙏
As a man i am so disgusted at this. No matter what anyone has done, prison or their guilt are the biggest punishment. But the issue is that i belive most of these victims were completly innocent. No one deserves this, no matter if they did a crime or not. I am so sorry to whoever was humiliated by this. But this was not the last war this was done, it is done even today. May God punish those who have done such horrible deeds.
It seems like most victims of these wars are the innocent, yet we continue to create them.
That’s nature
@@asinh1100 What an incredibly dark and non empathetic response. Do you think your mother thinks the same way?
I think you mean to say *ALL* of these victims were completely innocent, because they were *victims.*
@@asinh1100 I agree, but as humans we have a higher level of conscience and intelligence against other mammals. But sadly, these people are cruel.
Thank you for this documentary. It is eye opening. It is extremely distressing that these things happened and continue to happen in war.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
This video throws ice cold water on the warm-hearted stories we often hear about how benevolent & generous the Americans were as they liberated communities. Yet, this cold water bath is necessary to get a more realistic picture of the brutality of that war.
my father fought in WW2. No disgusting accusations of rape will soil his memory. The people who were liberated were so thankful to the British ARMY. and to my Father, a British Officer and a gentleman . Those that try and dishonor our war dead and impute that British soldiers raped civilians are below contempt. God Save the King.
What's all this talk about baths
@@Bob-nd2mr The line of good and evil runs through the hearts of all men (and women). Regardless of nationality.
@@Bob-nd2mrStories like this why the women can't speak with their voice
@@Bob-nd2mr nah, frick the British army and the crown.
“He who fights too long against monsters becomes a monster himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
This quote is taken out of content and is not worded in the same way.
Please translate the correction. And why you believe it is out of context. Thanks
My grandmother was born in 1927, and ultimately married an occupational troop member and moved to America. A young woman during all of this. This context is so important to understand and never forget.
It's no wonder the level of generation and ancestral trauma pretty much all of freaking us carry to this day and the level of ptsd our grandparents had to live with and mostly passed on to us. Back then, and still today, but to an astoundingly high degree, people were either commiting atrocities agains each other or reacting poorly and making matters even worse for themselves, like the girls who jumped out of a window and injured themselves, or the mothers and stepfathers who projected blame and shame onto their own children. The dark ages of emotional and psychological health is what I'd call ours and our forefather's times.
How horrible.
No wonder this species seems to be so traumatised.
Bless us all.
Futurama put it best: "a planet inhabited by psychotic monkeys"
I'm American. My ex girlfriend is from Germany and she told me about stories of her grandmother and the other women around that time that had to flee because the Russians where closing in and everyone knew how they behaved. Oddly enough I ended marrying a Russian afterwards.
Veterans wouldn't talk about the war not just because of the things happened on the battlefield, but also what happened off the battlefield. It's about thing they saw or what their mates done. War made men go mad. But a crime is still a crime, no matter what is the excuse.
With decent discipline, most atrocities can be prevented.
There is no excuse.
Or what THEY THEMSELVES did off the battlefield.
I feel the pain and fear and shame that all these women must have felt, and hope such things will never happen again.
lol.....take a look at all the women prisoners who were rescued from the hands of hamas militants.....
That would be wonderful. Women have been victims during conflict since BCE. Thousands of years of violence against females.
They are happening in Ukraine.
They happen in war zones everywhere, always.
This will happen x1000 in the tribulation.
It still exists in 21 century. My ex is Eastern European and their mind set and so as his friends said « Women are born as men’s object » 😢
In Kenya, the Kikuyu tribe has light skin people especially those who lived around Nairobi. It is as a result of the unholy union between the British army of the 1950s and the woman of Kikuyu whose husbands were fighting the MAU MAU liberation war.
@DW Documentary if you really want to explore "taboo topics" then please make a documentary on the spread of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws across Europe, and how those laws cause untold suffering to Palestine today...
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Basically all of Latin America
HOW TRUE AND HOW SAD THAT THIS STILL GOES ON TO THIS DAY, JUST WHAT KIND OF HUMANS ARE WE
ASK GAZA, ASK RAFAH.
War is a terrible nightmare. Some people in this world yearn to do it again.
For the life of me ill never understand why a man would do this to a woman. For all we fought to liberate only to have this tarnish on history. In my eyes that is equal to the warcrimes hitler and the ss commited. I know this dont make it any better for those affected but the day is coming when all mankind will be judged and dealt with. As an american whose ancestors fought every conflict the us has ever had. It disgust me and i can only hope that any one of my 3 uncles that served in that part of the european theatre did not participate. My deepest apologies to those females who were violated. I hope that peace found all of you!😢
I will never understand it either. It seems to be a fact of life that a certain percentage of people will act without moral conscience and/or be devoid of empathy. This is an explanation, not an excuse.
The failure is on commanders who do not to take adequate measures to prevent widespread atrocities or to investigate or punish the crimes that they failed to stop. There will always be a certain number of bad actors and unfortunately war provides a cover for them to be at their worst. However the actual condoning of atrocities or the encouragement of them is the greatest crime of all.
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Men thinks it’s no different than a bar fight
This still happens with every war
This happens every day, in every country.
Humans are the most savage deadly beasts on earth.
How about dogs?
@ I think we’re worse
ALL Women are treated as spoils of war. It's despicable. Their men are not there to protect them. The various troops all go home to their wives as heroes.
The film A Woman in Berlin does an excellent and terrifying job of dramatizing abhorrent crimes like those described here. It is a sanitized version in my opinion, because the level of horror and despair cannot truly be captured in a film.
as if the nazis were gentlemen
So is “Come and See” talks about the millions of horrible crimes against women children older people EVERYone of the poor russian/slavs that the germans invaded, graped, burnt etc comparable to what Japanese did to the Chinese.. sad
Sanitized in that it leaves out her complicity in genocide.
@@NehmiAre you proud of yourself?
@thefastandthedead1769 But they would not have happened if the Germans hadn't started it!
This is the dark side of war so few people ever really understand. This happened throughout Yugoslavia during the war. War brings out the worst in people.
You will never read this in American history books, never hear this in an American history lesson. The winner dictates the narrative.
Watch “come and see”
@@xEvan117x How does Watch and See relate to my statement?
You certainly won't read about this in Russian history books either.
“Pirates are evil? Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history. Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values. Those who stand at the top determine whats wrong and whats right. This very place is a neutral ground! Justice will prevail you say? But of course it will! Those who win the war become the justice!”
-Dofflamingo
@@shadowdraqon2479 wasn’t he slave owner?
We need to talk about this more. Ppl should know this
we germans know!
@@mho...it seems like it’s only you that you know. Isn’t that weird?
It’s interesting how I as German have mainly heard of these monstrosities and rapes from the Soviet side but never really of the Allies as they were (and often still are) presented as the liberators of the century and are therefore not connected to such crimes.
Rape is an act of violence, not lust.
Nonsense. It’s both. Don’t be stupid.
I'm so glad this is being talked about. May we work to end this atrocity once and for all.
I cant watch this, thank you for covering this
Hate and Horror cames hand by hand
This documentary is more horrific to watch than a horror movie
The more you know, the more you realise we live in truly bad times. Humans are animals.
Taboo subject? It's been part of war since the dawn of time.
it's a taboo for the victims and the german society...it was not an upbrought topic after WW2
It's taboo here if you ask your grandparents 😊
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Maybe my English is bad but "taboo subject" doesn't mean it isn't done, it means people don't like to talk about it.
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