That’s sad but true. But it depends on the person. I’m sure not exactly everyone in every army in every war would do that. There’s both good and bad people.
During colonial rule in India, Britishers used to commit these crimes on large scale. My Grandmother used to tell me that whenever they saw Britishers the women used to jump in wells or hide in house.
Hmmm... making negative comments about the British for actions that happened nearly 100 years, whilst living in a fair and relatively safe place called Britain!!!!! Can't make it up!!
@Cher cher You want proof then here it is (1)Queen's daughter in india written by an English woman. (2) Anglo indian community. (3)Dairies of British soldiers and officers. (4)The contagious diseases acts 1866. (5) Many Indians have british dna. (6) The chakla system in british era. There are many more why don't you search on this topic by yourself.
It seems any war will involve the rape of women by soldiers regardless of drunkenness or nationality. It's as though taking women is an unwritten law of war. The men forget they have their own mothers, sisters, wives in their lives and they are able to dehumanize and use females of "the enemy". Most often no one is punished and the soldiers can proceed with impunity. These crimes are happening again in Ukraine as they did in Bosnia etc etc.
There will always be individual bad actors in every military. The difference being some countries will tolerate, condone or even encourage the rape of women. That would be countries like Russia and Japan or the Nazis. The Allies countries of WWII may have at times looked away to some extent but would never condone or encourage the rape of women.
@@CM-ve1bz The USA allows rapists of women and children to walk away from their crimes every day. This isn't just a war thing. This is a women and children aren't important thing.
@@wildnette That's because the Democratic party is in charge. The Democrats allow and even encourage alternative lifestyles and perverted thinking. They are the ones putting perversion into our schools and our streets. If the Conservatives were making the laws rapist and those that harm our children would suffer severe consequences. Rape and child molestation where capital crimes in the United States once upon a time. We've become very European as of late. You might want to say that Republicans have been in charge before and nothing changed. The problem with that is most Republicans in Washington DC are much like Liz Chaney, they are rhinos at best. They just hide it better than she does. They are more worried about their government job then your children.
The russians are the worst attacking innocent civilians in an unprovoked attack. Many german women were protected by the american soldiers from the russian dogs and went to america to start new lives with them. Russia brought the german attack in ww2 on themselves by stealing neighbors countries exactly like we are seeing today. Living anywhere near russia was and clearly still is a very bad thing. The stronger the soviet union became the more germany felt threatened. Russia killed millions of their own people before ww2 and many were of german heritage. Many russians welcomed the german attack and joined the nazi army. Stalin killed their entire families if they were caught or if they surrendered to the nazi's. It would not surprise me if putin is doing the very same thing to families of captured soldiers in his army of thugs today. When polish jewish communists tried to physically take over the german government in the 30s and had to be killed they caused the eventual death of many jews who were regarded as communists since lenin and trotsky started the russian revolution causing millions to die and lose their freedom.
The Eastern tribunals should have lasted longer.I think MacArthur wanted them over with to facilitate his occupation. I sit on the "They got off too easy " side.
@@sheldonwheaton881 dating in germany untill 1989 (the soviets)... This is not a long time for you lol. Annexing, under cover of liberation. Do not change the roles. The terrorist east block will never win. Even if they destroy the whole planet
Its a way to take away the pride of a people. I am German and this pride never got restored, I can see it when I talk with my grandparents. My Grandpa started to cry when he told me how he witnessed as a child that his mother went with allied soldiers to come back beaten up and in bad shape (raped). His father died in combat he has only seen him twice. I see this humiliation is still inside him as an 80y old man, and in a way it also affects my father and me on an epigenetic level and we can still see in our society that men who have pride get shut down very fast as its not wanted anymore.
What your Nazi people did to Jews done to your women by allied forces. ...and remember, you civilians German so called elite class used to make mockery and laugh at Jews people when they were dragged and tortured in the streets. You were in the majority in terms of population...are you not ashamed of what you did to minorities that time?
This is exactly what the purpose of the humiliation of the conquered enemy is. Humiliation and breaking up spirit of a potential adversary. Your comment and the fact that Europe so far enjoyed peace are testimonies of effectiveness of it. With few exceptions it is men who are worriers. Most of the time propaganda portraits them as defenders of the week and helpless (women and children), it is rape of women ultimate proof of their inability to fulfill this duty. After these brutal events no German will be able to present himself as superior to others.
My wife is German. Her grandmother fled East Prussia (Germany) with nothing but two small children and a baby after it was given to the USSR. She walked 800 miles to Bavaria (the only part of Germany that wasn't bombed into oblivion). Along the way she was raped 17 times by Allied Troops and buried two out of the three children. She made it to Bavaria with my wife's father, the baby, whom she had a very co-dependent relationship with. In many ways, todays German people, who of course had nothing to do with the war, carry the emotional and psychological scars of the war from the their parents and grandparents.
They carry the memory of not to do it again. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” They lost. Good that they remember.
The innocents suffer most. The display of indifference or even psychopathy and wish for revenge in this comment section shows: Todays people are even worse.
The horrors of war. It turns men into rabid beasts, on ALL sides. I'm hoping it's the minority and NOT the majority of men. A lot of men are so traumatized when they come home, they have PTSD!! I'm wondering if it's because they saw too much death, or maybe they saw these rapes and outright murder?! Probably BOTH!!! That would be hard for a REAL man to accept.
I wonder if those soldiers who committed rape after rape suffered from PTSD, I HOPE SO. Two wrongs can NEVER make. a right. The rapists were probably misogynistic pigs anyway. Many makes are ruled by their genitals, as they are today.
My friend served three tours in Iraq and 3 more in Afghanistan. He and his pals rescued a boy the Bacha Bazi tribal warlords had tied to a bed. The kid was 10 years old and had been raped thousands of times by the Muslim adult male, who bought him. The Army told these heroes "We don't interfere with the customs of the locals" and ordered the boy returned to bondage and sexual slavery to Allah man. My friend ended up becoming alcoholic, getting divorced and moving to rural Montana to escape the PTSD as much as he could.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 lütfen arkadaşına saygılarımı ilet. Türkiye' den sevgilerimi yolluyorum sizlere, diğer yandan da devletimizin ülkemize göç ettirdiği 1.5 milyon bacha bazi sever ile aynı ülkede yaşamak zorunda kalıp, çocukları korumaya çalışıyorum. Yine de sizin suçunuz yok, iyi insanlar her nerde ise güçlü olsunlar.
War brings out the evil on both sides. I’ve heard war stories as a bedside nurse in VA hospitals over a 35 year career that I can not repeat, and if I did, would make your skin crawl.
It is the duty of anyone who knows anything about this to pass it on to the rest of the world so that the recurrence of such horrors is minimized as possible.
War is the great " x - ray " of human character . It exposes one's true character . If a person is rotten , I mean , just under the skin then war will expose it , likewise if a person is a decent human being , war will bring it out , believe me .
Les Allemands et allemandes ont bien mérité leur sort lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Ils n'avaient pas à agresser les autres peuples.Quant aux femmes qui ont été violées cela me laisse indifférent.
many , MANY commenters in the past complained that this channel only showed crimes against humanity perpetrated by the axis powers and not by the allies , this video goes some way to set the record straight
There was a German Holocaust at the end of WW2. Germans were rounded up in the occupied areas, those that had native German populations. They were forced marched to what was left of Germany. Many were murdered along the way.
The famous 1961 Italian film Two Women starring Sophia Loren was mainly about the battle of Italy as the Germans fought the allied soldiers fleeing north to escape before Italy surrendered to the allies. Sophia, the main character and her daughter were attacked and raped by allied soldiers when they were caught in the fighting. Many Italian civilians were attacked, raped or killed when a lot of them were caught up in the fighting between the Allies and German soldiers in the decisive battle for Italy.
That does not excuse the choices of the men involved. There are no valid justifications. Claiming "war is a nasty business" doesn't make a man any less of a predator. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
Wait, what? The men are simply executed while the women have to "have sex" and that is worse somehow? The men DIED trying to PROTECT the women - you ungrateful, woke, fool.
@@V.E.R.O. I'm looking at Europe today - where women ARE the leaders, for the most part - and I see them doing everything in their power to start WWIII in Ukraine. Just saying...
@@danakaleb4882 Most of the women "behind the front line" never see an enemy.... for example, the German women during the first world war never saw the enemy after the defeat of their army ... with exception of the occupation of the Rein Ruhr Gebiet .... did you ever saw a women on a military cemetery? 22 million men died as a soldier during WW2...
@@KK-rg1wz ok. First of all, my great grandmother was Tito’s partisan, among many other women of her generation. She was fighting against Germans, Italians and others, like any other man. None of them were burried in military cementeries, because if they were caught by Germans, they were executed on spot as they were treated like terorists. Russian army had many female fighters. Some of them were even among the Best Sharp shooters they had. If women are given arms to defend themselves, they will be in front lines. Just ask Kurds. The problem was, that before firearms, women didn’t stand a chance in a Battle because of men being biologicaly so much stronger. Guns are great equalizer. My great grandma was sleeping with her gun and Pistol and never let them out of her reach. She also had bombs on her belt, for she would never let them catch her. She planned to take with her as many as possible with no way out. She was ready to die. I would rather die fighting than be raped, tortured and finally executed like an animal . I just need a gun. Luckily I was raised by Yugoslav communists. Every kid going to highschool in Yugoslavia had to learn how to shoot to finish highschool - no matter which sex. So, I shoot just fine. Got A for it. Tito said about WWI and WWII - in each following war more civilians die, so it only makes sense to teach them how to defend themselves and arm them if necessary. Yugoslavia could be defeated only by itself. Even Russians wouldn’t invade them.
Many, many moons ago, my ex & I had taken a trip out West in Canada. We stopped in a roadhouse for something to eat & meet some older guys. We got talking & for whatever reason the conversation turned to WW2. These guys came in just as the war was declared over & had joined up with some Russian soldiers that were to seek out any German soldiers possibly hiding in the countryside. These guys soon became aware that these Russians were nothing but cruel, vile pigs. I won't get into detail what they did to a farmer's wife, daughter & 7yr old boy. Eventually they hung them in the barn. These Canadians had had enough of these atrocities that; let me just say these Russians never woke up in the morning. Because of the fact it was still a war, nobody gave the demise of these Russians a second thought.
These atrocities are probably true of all wars. I remember the awful movies of that horrible Viet Nam war. I sobbed openly at the continual rape and torture of a Vietnamese peasant, by American soldiers.
My in laws met in a force work camp in Germany. My mother in law was Ukrainian and my father in law was Belarusian. My husband was born in the Republic of Germany in 1949. They were allowed to come to America in 1952. They were not Jewish. They were eastern orthodox. My inlaws had a very painful difficult life. I wish I learned more from my mother inlaw.
They were used as slave labor. I'm friends with an American who had two parents from Ukraine that worked for the German regime during the war. My mother was brought from Hamburg, Germany at age 6 in 1927. My Oma und Opa lived through WW l and wanted a better life in the U.S.A.. They went through hell as Germans during the war. Americans and many people in the world don't realize that living hell awaits us all. Feeling safe is not a fact. @@myhonorwasloyalty
You are a light in this world to carry the flame of their legacy. Thank you for sharing their spirits and who they were. Are. They live because we remember. Thank you for doing that. Peace be with you always.
@@albertmarnell9976 Thank you also for sharing the legacy of your loved ones. It's so cruelly ignored, and I'm so sorry that people forget how to see human beings. My heart breaks because of that. May their memory be a blessing to you. Peace be with you always.
My grandfather was stationed in Berlin in the closing days of the war and after. He told me that the German people suffered horribly during that time, that Germans were starving and desperate. He wasn’t proud of his service and didn’t want to be there in the first place, got drafted at 18. When he came home, he was psychologically damaged for the rest of his life. I’m sure he witnessed/knew of abuse against German civilians based on what he told me.
I think what does the psychological damage is that they knew what their comrades in arms were doing, but they didn't speak out or try to stop it. They simply ignored the crimes. And THAT I think is worse. Peer pressure can be an awful thing! I have a relative who served in the middle east in the 70's, and sometimes I think the reason he is in such bad shape mentally is because of that very thing! Men like to think they are heroes and protectors when they go to war. Some find out that they are really cowards. That is a hard pill to swallow.
Yes, I know a case, this man as a child witnessed a rape of a german Lady and it was so gruesome, he took his life as a grown man. He could not do anything back then but it was so demonic, he could not live with it. Rape destroys the society. For everyone, including the ones, who committed it.
The powers in charge would disagree, and the business tycoons love the prophets made from war, they're the ones that start the mess and the citizens are the ones to suffer the consequences.
This does not excuse men's choices during war. It is unforgivable. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
That is too simplistic. It is accepting that there will be atrocities. The Germans and Japanese atrocities were much greater in number and degrees than the allies.
I watched a video recently of a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz. At the time of liberation she was around 18 and in bad shape physically, as you can imagine. Afterwards, she also got very depressed that all but her sister had been killed. They found an apt. and she had to be carried. They put her in a crib, and during the night a drunk American soldier with a buddy broke into the apt, picked her up out of the crib and started taking her clothes off, but was stopped by his fellow soldier. She said he got infuriated, but left. He came back the next morning to bring her flowers and apologize. I bet she wondered if she’d ever stop being terrorized and feel safe again.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 We did. Our men committed atrocities in France, Germany, Vietnam and Cambodia. But Holocaust survivors? From those filthy dehumanizing, murderous atrocious Nazi camps? NO! No no and double no.
War is about destroying your enemy, not just the soldiers. War is about breaking your enemy, breaking them psychologically, physically, emotionally. Soldiers have assaulted the woman of their enemies through all history because that leaves your enemy’s society traumatized with no resolve to fight back. It’s disgusting.
@@donaldbell2415 The concept of ‘war crime’ is an absolute joke. War is crime, it’s about killing and destroying people, you can’t talk about some war as if it’s ethical compared to other war.
Thank you for making this video. As the comments clearly show, too many people dehumanize the average citizen just because of where they live. Sickening and hypocritical.
One particular time i was in the mess, (ex ADF Army) i said to the fellers around me, 'if we ever go to a warzone and i see anyone raping a civilian I'll put a bullet through you', i was expecting agreement but all i got was shocked looks. Just goes to show not all who wear a uniform are of sound character 😔
The one who starts a fight is the one who first dehumanises everybody else, the whole humanity. They who belong to a dehumanising nation should not complain at all, they should be first to ask forgiveness, to their enemies, and to their co-nationals.
Actually they surrendered in mass on the western front. They fought to the end on the eastern front because they knew what they did to the soviets when they had the upper hand in the Soviet Union.
@@darryljones6129 True, but that doesn't mean that they didn't continue fighting there as well (e.g. Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945; Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 6. October 1944 - 10. February 1945; Ruhr Pocket: 1- 18 April 1945)
@@TheHolyActivist you are correct. They fought well. Some divisions of the Wehrmacht retreated from the East to avoid being captured by the Soviets close to the end of the war. Some of the hardest fighting happened when the Soviets started to take Berlin.
I lived in Germany for a few years as hubby was in the RAF stationed there. I worked on the camp in a cafe. We had a cook that wasn't German but came from Easter Europe. She was in a camp that was just women. They were used by the German Soldiers as Comfort women. Once she refused and was kicked in the face and lost teeth. When the was was coming to an end they were "liberated" by the Americans. She said they were treated no better than what the Germans did. She hated the Americans as much as she hated the Germans. I appreciate that it was a minority and I'm sure the majority behaved but war is war
Yes. Non German women were treated very badly by some American soldiers. Having been in the Army myself, it is best to try to dissuade these people from these crimes. You may be called a wimp, but you hve done a good deed.
You come here not to pay respect and empathy, but to point fingers. Your story is horrible, but its weird you immediately post this in a video about the rapes and torture of German video as if to deflect what happened and justify atrocities.
The platoon bullies sniff each other almost immediately. Then they gang up and establish informal hierarchy based on bullying, harassment and humiliation. That's the reality in the army.
My mom told me to that when she was a child in Germany...American soldiers kicked her mom, her, and her young brother out of their house. They forced a neighbor woman to cook and serve them. They also looted what meager valuables they had. Dishes were broken and furniture ripped.
and what did your grandfather? Defending his family? Oh no, I forgot, he participated in a war of agression, he invaded peacefull countries, murdering and stealing ... be glad the Americans came to save you from the Nazi's.
It makes no sense to do exactly the same things that on’es enemy did, in revenge for what they did. You show by your actions that you’re morally no better than the enemy.
@Harmony hate only breeds hate. If you do what perpetrators do you are also a perpetrator. Especially if you’re doing it to people indirectly involved. And if you find joy in what happened to German women simply because of actions done out of their own control you are sick and full of hate. Just like the nazis were.
The Soviet Union TRIED to take the high road with Germany in the opening days of Barbarossa. 'Tell us what you want, and we'll GIVE it to you!' Finally, at Stalingrad, the Red army soldiers realized that Germany would not stop killing until they were killed themselves, and the tide turned.
History repeated itself on and on. From the beginning of times until now women are sexual assaulted and worse in times of war or other. Some men don't need a reason for this dispicable behaviour
I'd argue that rather it shows the true nature of men and their individual wills. Takes every social and moral mask off of you right down to the naked core. If men like Desmond Doss and Léo Major could keep their principles intact in such horrendous conditions then I'm less inclined to feels sympathy towards the men who try to justify their own atrocities.
@@carrot8736 There's no shroud of morality or complex disguises involved. It's humans simply adapting to what they perceived is an amoral environment. They exercised the behavior that their circumstances permitted. Provided the resources, opportunity or incentives of gratification, everyone is capable of great good or evil.
Many times that's probably why so many of these soldiers didn't want to talk about what they did during the war. There was probably a lot of shame they carried throughout their lives that they didn't want to think about, whether it was raping helpless civilian women, putting the clueless new replacements on point where they snickered with their buddies about how the guy would be killed the first day, looting, or mutilating dead enemy soldiers. The PTSD isn't necessarily all about seeing their buddies killed in action. As you age, most people with a conscience understand and feel great remorse for things they did in the past as 19-year-olds, but can never be undone and it's as clear as last week until the day they die.
Mostly by the red army. By far more than any other. They viewed it as the spoils of war and it was even encouraged as a morale booster. That's why Japan surrendered. It didn't have anything to do with the bomb. They were more afraid of the Russians after tales from Berlin surfaced.
My father was in Berlin after the war for studies in tecnique. He was horribled over how the american soldiers treated the women. So it was not only the russians that behavied bad. When he tried to interfer he got problem.
@Quisqualis683 and does that mean the Germans deserve no Sympathy? No matter wether the Germans started it it was the Allies who perfected it and committed it on a scale that would have even shocked many Nazis.
My mother was in a German labor camp from age 12-18 during WW2. She sewed the Nazi’s uniforms. They were made to walk back to Germany from Czechoslovakia with whatever they can carry. Child laborers, what a way to grow up.
A work colleague of mine told me how her father, British soldier, who fought in Europe during WW2 told her how British soldiers were r*****g German women after the fall of the 3rd Reich. He told her that there was nothing you could do, if you tried to stop them you'd be killed. I also knew a woman who was part of the exodus out of Dresden and she talked about how allied planes would strafe the roadways with gunfire on refugees as they marched away from the city. She herself moved to England with a young squaddie who had been stationed there after the war.
I never heard about it before. Actually, in the area where I am from, there were Brits and they were actually the only ones who acted civilized. So much, that we became friends and I believe, not out of Stockholm-Syndrome (like the East of Germany...) but because they were acting like human beings, encountering other human beings.
A woman who lived in Arnhem (near the bridge) explained to me the situation at the time. She was 14 then. The Germans were always very polite, even walking round the flower beds. There was one rape by a German soldier. He was found and publically executed by the Germans. When the allies arrived, many many Dutch women were raped - and they stomped through the flower beds.
Yes.The germans were known for being very polite.And moral.And righteous. What a pathetic story! The Dutch happily gave over so many Jews to the nazis , I'm pleased to hear their was a little bit of revenge on this earth still.
@@Tali5899 The German were known for being very polite and professional to people they saw as equals, the Germanic peoples. Those they didn’t not so much. Ask the Eastern Europeans how decent and polite they were.
Can you provide us with your source of information about such a crime committed on a larger scale? I knew about the red army but not about the allied forces.
The first act of ALL belligerent governments is to dehumanise the enemy. Most of us will recall posters of a WW1 fierce eyed German soldier towering over a cowering young mother holding her babe-in- arms. Equally, we've ALL heard stories of men (mostly) meeting their erstwhile enemies long after wars end, only to remain firm friends for the rest of their lives. I've known several, the usual comment is "they're just like us". RIP to them all.
what people fail to realize say in the german perspective...most german soldiers in Russia were just soldiers but the nazis would come in and commit atrocities' so people would assume every german soldier was evil this was actually used as a terror weapon..by their own govt
It's cowardly to target women with violence whatever the situation, even if they are combatants. Restraint is what differentiates a human being from a beast in a human body.
Thank you, yes. If you want to know, I highly recommend to read the diary of Anonyma "A woman in Berlin", she wrote without restraint and she wrote the truth. The kind deeds of soldiers, also the heinous crimes of soldiers.
I know these stories of atrocities of the Russians from my grandmother. She experienced the Russians firsthand. They sat in her living room. My grandparents never spoke well about the Russians. I also grew up with the fear of the Russians. We lived near a Russian army base in eastern Germany.
@nostradam7036 Sarcasm is out of place here. And just for the record... not all Germans are or were Nazis. Germans also sat in concentration camps, were tortured and murdered. What happened in Germany then can happen in your country. Stop your arrogance!
@nostradam7036 Let me correct you. No one deserves this!!!!! Let he who is free from guilt cast the first stone. What country do you belong to???? I bet your country also has black chapters in its history.
I am not defending anything here. It is my fatherland and I was born here and I am in no way responsible for the 2nd world war. I condemn just as much what happened then... but also our people suffered, either by the war itself or afterwards by the Russians.
@@Jane-zy8fs "not all Germans are or were Nazis" either a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer, that's why you bomb Germ-any every few decades to make sure no evil is coming out.
Ich denke, die Gesellschaften der Opfer UND Täter sind schwer beschädigt und wir können nicht ermessen, was die Auswirkungen bis heute sind. All die armen Seelen, seien es Opfer der deutschen Gräuel oder Opfer der sovietischen Gräuel, mögen sie Frieden und Heilung finden. Alles Gute für Ihre Familie.
who's nuclear button do you mean? I hope you do not mean putin, the lunatic, because he is not defending anything, he is an attacker, aggressor, thug, murderer.
The german people, my people, have experienced so much hardship in life; whats funny, when people think of the germans during ww2, they automatically think of all the horrible stuff they have done; but not once has anyone truly sat down and thought of their reasoning; citizens just dont wake up over night wanting to exterminate, their has to be a breaking point. No one talks about the brutality towards german citizens that poland has done along their borders during 1918-1919, where the allies had made german citizans addicted to alcohol, pornography and degeneracy through the 1920s, or how no one truly discusses about the book burnings during 1933 and how germany was in such a horrible poverish state due to the article agreements that European crountries drafted and proposed on the german citizens until the day they refused their currency system creating their own. No one wants to talk about the 24 peace treaties they sent out to the allies before 39, not many people realize that most of the Nawtsies where majority worried about russia and stalin; or how churchill pushed for the war to happen by doing forest burns along the border edges, no because their all perfect people. But yes, lets just pretend that the millions of germans that where killed, and forcing the entire race to be made the bad guy in all of this, and nothing ever happened with the allies, because as they day, good guys always win history right?
My stepdad was a Captain in the Canadian Army and he told me these atrocities also took place in Italy. Still, he also said to me that in the Candian Military, it was pretty easy to be shot for any major crimes against any civilians both male and female young and old unless you could prove it was in self-defense... Is anybody out there that can confirm this?
There are a couple accounts of rape by Canadian soldiers from German women, but they are few. Not everyone in the military "Served/serving their country" is a good person. I know from experience for every patriot there's unwanted shitheads too.
I will say one thing, 27 million people died in the USSR, of which 13-15 million were soldiers. The Germans and their allies destroy entire villages, including old people, women and children. One of the German soldiers, in letters to a friend, boasted of how they raped young girls in droves and how he liked them to resist to the last, and then kill them; this soldier was also surprised that there were so many virgins among them... There is a huge amount of evidence of the brutal murders of small children, including crucifixions, and I also remember how a German soldier killed a child with an ax (because the child was crying and did not let him sleep). I read letters from German soldiers, and letters from their wives and mothers, who asked to send a fur coat or boots, and also thanked for the parcels sent, one Frau thanked and wrote that she was able to wash a blood stain from the coat that he sent them, and how this coat goes their daughters..... For many USSR soldiers, the Germans killed all their relatives: mothers, fathers, wives, children..... How could they be kind after that? Do you seriously think this was cruel to women in Germany???? Only thanks to the power of the USSR, their generals and the kindness of “Ivan” was at least something left of the people of Germany!
But gangraping young girls to death can be. And leaving some food after you did that, as if you're paying a prostitute, can surely be described as sadistic too.
During and after the Battle of Berlin in 1945, there were widespread reports of Soviet soldiers committing atrocities against German civilians, particularly women, as they captured the city. While the Red Army was primarily focused on military objectives, the chaotic conditions of the battle and the anger toward Nazi Germany led to significant acts of violence against unarmed civilians.
Thank you for telling this story as it needs to be told n known about as my mum's aunts were all raped in Germany by the Red army .. n it's not told enough ..
Can you please stop saying those germans , the German people voted for adolf hitler in a general election . The german people in a referendum gave hitler a 95% approval to his enabling act which effectively allowed without any violence to allow Hitler to be the sole ruler of Germany as an authorotarian regime . The german people have adolf hitler consent to dissolve the weimar republic as the nationalist socialist revolution . These are the facts. When are today's germans just going to accept this that propaganda and dogma took over most of the German people period . The reason why this is so important is that this could be repeated and it was to an extent with Donald trump in the United States with his election lies and attempted coup
And secondly there was no serious partisan resistance movement by the Germans against the Nazi state . It did not exist . Stauffenberg was the only man who finally manned up towards the end of the war to get rid of hitler and his family were condemned as traitors
i personaly think that many things from past, we kinda cant watch thru our eyes, eyes of a modern man, coz those things were like 80 years ago, but when it comes to such crimes i bleieve it needs to be talked about it and judged. i am survivor of ethnical cleansing from 90ties in former yugoslavia, one of things they kept saying when we wer egathered like a cattel to one place, was this all is for 1945, and i was 9, in 1991, someone saying to 9 year old basicaly your town is flattened you are here where you are, people are dead around you, women and men divided, women are screaming from from various sides, you are ordered to strip naked and enter huge like a warehouse, inside is bunch of young boys and teens, and boys who are hardly 6. to be searched and inerogated completly naked and kept been told this is for 1945. coz if we kept silent about those stories from past, those expirences of people, from who majority is not alive an more or is in their late 80 ties and 90ties, those things will keep repeating. crimes of one can't justifie another crimes done by other side. it does not work like that. people who do crimes in wars have their names, and this story from this video is former yugoslavia story in ww1, ww2, wars from 90ties, is ukranien story today, is polish, is french, is any where in the world in any given past or present time where some kind of armed conflict is. kids are sold often to god know who and for what. war times ar emagnet for all kinds of sycos who even during peace do certain things just in a hiding. and they will do them once war is over. in my country war veteran recently was charged for rap**e of his own 8 year old daughter, if he was doing that to his own child, imagine what he was doing during war to other children..
Don’t explain yourself for what the nazis did Unless you are one And be proud of your Country don’t let history hunt you Specially now days after it’s crystal clear that the allies are not exactly he good guys nor are they the hero’s they are just the winners ( Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen , that’s just recent history as there are many more evil intervention and war crimes committed after ww2 )
So did the women in the countries that the German soldiers invaded....well...many went to their deaths, so they didn't get to tell their grand children stories.
I watched an interview with a red army soldier from WW2. What he recalled what his company did was so bad, if I were him, I never would have retold those stories to anyone. God forgive them.
Maybe he should also tell you what Germans did to his women? They saw it as tit for tat. It was wrong on all acounts, But it is as it is. Maybe you should also Check what German army was doing in invaded teritories. Hatred against Germans was so profound, that otherwise ‘good and civilised people’ were discussing, if they should leave any of them alive at all. WWI and WWII left scars in Europe that never healed.
I can assure you that the German treatment of Soviet women was just as bad. Worse, actually, because as Slavs, they had been marked for slavery and extermination.
@@ThePlataf And yet the Germans who suffered as much as everyone else never get any sympathy. Raping and slaughtering Millions out of revenge isn’t going to undo the Damage done to your People, it also doesn’t satisfy a desire for revenge it only leads to you becoming as cruel and violent as the very people you oppose. Finally how is raping Millions of Women and Children who had nothing to do with the War acceptable? The Allies were no better then the Nazis when the War ended the Allied Powers had committed so many horrific Crimes and Atrocities that they were indistinguishable from the Nazis.
My mother lived I East Germay she said the Russian soldiers were always kind to the children. It ashamed I other parts of Germany these women had to suffer.
Ich denke, Sie können das Tagebuch der Anonyma lesen. "Eine Frau in Berlin" sie beschreibt ihre Erlebnisse mit den Soldaten der roten Armee, manche extrem grausam (aber keine Details) und manche sind sehr warmherzig und lieb zu Kindern. Manchmal sind beide Eigenschaften in einem Menschen verkörpert. Es muss die Hölle gewesen sein.
I always have to think of the many innocent children that were begotten troughout Europe and in the East through violence by soldiers of any nation. These children and their mothers suffered all their lives, because they could not love their child. War destroys all human feelings.
It’s still happening today ; the poor girls who were kidnapped by Biko haram in northern Nigeria so many of them had babies by them. Some are still in captivity! It’s really sad !
The problem is the German people benefited from the barbarism of the Nazi soldiers. So when the table was turned and the German people found themselves on the bad end, they had no right to complain or whine or demand different treatment. Many of the things that had been sent home to Germany from the conquered countries like Poland were taken with brutal force from people’s homes. Suddenly the shoe was on the other foot. Lesson is: Don’t start fights to begin with. If you lose, you can lose everything. And you deserve it. That’s what happened to Germany.
@@sheldonwheaton881 you hopefully realize how bizarre you sound here. You actually accuse someone of being both a Nazi and a Bolshevik for criticizing the Nazis. Something is wrong with you
@@pamtnman1515 germany and poland had an border issue since versailles treatment. After that border issue France and England escalated the conflict and declared war on germany.
@@pondusenglanq8563 I guess you studied history at the World Economic Forum taught by Black Lives Matter people, because Germany declared war on both England and France first.
Animals are better behaved than Russian soldiers during WW II and even today. You quite rightly referred to Stalin's quote that rape was allowed. For most Germans and Eastern Europeans the so called end of the war was just the beginning.
You maybe right. The important lesson is not to scapegoat thr innocent and become misguided. The nazis were misguided in many ways on who they blamed for all their problems
War and the crimes committed during and after wars was sick and depraved. My heart goes out to all of those who died in battle or were victims of war crimes. God Bless all of them.
If only that was the worst of WWII ..As I look at the present day destruction of our country I have concluded General Patton was right when he said “we fought the wrong side”
I had friends from Germany who told me what happened when the Brit soldiers first entered their village in 1945 after Germany was defeated. The soldiers came in at first very slowly and with great trepidation and caution, carrying their guns cocked and aloft, poking every haystack and bush, until they were sure the area was safe and there were no German soldiers left hiding out there. Once they took control however, they behaved in a very disciplined manner and didn't assault anyone. One time after searching a house they found an air rifle and all hell broke loose until it was explained to them it was the young son's who was just using it to shoot birds and was of no danger to them. Later on, often, the little children used to run up to the soldiers stationed there and taunt them in their broken English with "You have a bird!" from the German idiom "Du hast einen vogel" meaning "You're crazy!". This of course left the soldiers somewhat bemused, the children not realising the direct translation has no meaning in English.
Hello, I remember watching documentary video where they talked to a handful of German women about this during world war II. One German lady talked about the French soldiers being cruel and just as mean and made the Soviet soldiers look like boy scouts.
Not only the French but also the British, the American and Japanese soldiers ... do not judge a nation by war crimes only. There were wars everywhere in Europe in the past and soldiers killed so many innocent people (children, women, the elderly, ...) Things will never change. The war in Ukraine today is another example. Many Ukrainian women were raped. And if you go to some African countries, it is exactly the same situation. What the German soldiers did during WWI and WWII in Europe to some civilians was an absolute horror (tortures, rapes, concentration camps, ...). Human beings can be evil.
We have some of the most violent people in the world living in the United States and a lot of the comments act like us Americans are so nice and friendly and not violent! Man this country is going to hell for all the sins committed in our borders!
Damn War breeds brutality and retaliation against Civilians. The fact that modern wars fought by Modern armies includes that too is disturbing as hell. At least we no longer capture people as slaves like we used too, right?, I think.
I m so proud of my Indian army who are taught to be gentleman. Remembering our legend Sam Manekshaw who made it very clear during liberation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan that no women of any age will be touched by Indian army.
One book that recalled some of the rapes committed by US soldiers in France: What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts, University of Chicago Press, 2913.
I read that American troops trained for France were told that "French girls were easy" as a way to excite them. I imagine these boys were pretty young and inexperienced. But this film explains the state French girls were in by 1944: hungry, worn out, ravaged.
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The undeniable truth: Every army in every war in history has had soldiers commit atrocities.
I doubt more than a handful of Englishmen would agree with you.
That’s sad but true. But it depends on the person. I’m sure not exactly everyone in every army in every war would do that. There’s both good and bad people.
@@johnhelton9533 I cannot argue with that.
@Jennifer Poole In the immortal, profound, and wise words of an American president, "There were good people on _both_ sides."
The one big difference is if those atrocities are a matter of policy.
During colonial rule in India, Britishers used to commit these crimes on large scale. My Grandmother used to tell me that whenever they saw Britishers the women used to jump in wells or hide in house.
No they didn't 😂...
@@RS__7 Yes they did
No they didn't.
Hmmm... making negative comments about the British for actions that happened nearly 100 years, whilst living in a fair and relatively safe place called Britain!!!!!
Can't make it up!!
@Cher cher You want proof then here it is
(1)Queen's daughter in india written by an English woman.
(2) Anglo indian community.
(3)Dairies of British soldiers and officers.
(4)The contagious diseases acts 1866.
(5) Many Indians have british dna.
(6) The chakla system in british era.
There are many more why don't you search on this topic by yourself.
It seems any war will involve the rape of women by soldiers regardless of drunkenness or nationality. It's as though taking women is an unwritten law of war. The men forget they have their own mothers, sisters, wives in their lives and they are able to dehumanize and use females of "the enemy". Most often no one is punished and the soldiers can proceed with impunity. These crimes are happening again in Ukraine as they did in Bosnia etc etc.
There will always be individual bad actors in every military.
The difference being some countries will tolerate, condone or even encourage the rape of women.
That would be countries like Russia and Japan or the Nazis.
The Allies countries of WWII may have at times looked away to some extent but would never condone or encourage the rape of women.
@@CM-ve1bz The USA allows rapists of women and children to walk away from their crimes every day. This isn't just a war thing. This is a women and children aren't important thing.
@@wildnette
That's because the Democratic party is in charge. The Democrats allow and even encourage alternative lifestyles and perverted thinking. They are the ones putting perversion into our schools and our streets.
If the Conservatives were making the laws rapist and those that harm our children would suffer severe consequences.
Rape and child molestation where capital crimes in the United States once upon a time. We've become very European as of late.
You might want to say that Republicans have been in charge before and nothing changed.
The problem with that is most Republicans in Washington DC are much like Liz Chaney, they are rhinos at best. They just hide it better than she does.
They are more worried about their government job then your children.
The russians are the worst attacking innocent civilians in an unprovoked attack. Many german women were protected by the american soldiers from the russian dogs and went to america to start new lives with them. Russia brought the german attack in ww2 on themselves by stealing neighbors countries exactly like we are seeing today. Living anywhere near russia was and clearly still is a very bad thing. The stronger the soviet union became the more germany felt threatened. Russia killed millions of their own people before ww2 and many were of german heritage. Many russians welcomed the german attack and joined the nazi army. Stalin killed their entire families if they were caught or if they surrendered to the nazi's. It would not surprise me if putin is doing the very same thing to families of captured soldiers in his army of thugs today. When polish jewish communists tried to physically take over the german government in the 30s and had to be killed they caused the eventual death of many jews who were regarded as communists since lenin and trotsky started the russian revolution causing millions to die and lose their freedom.
Rape is a weapon.
How about the Japanese.... they seem to have been forgotten with their war crimes.
The Eastern tribunals should have lasted longer.I think MacArthur wanted them over with to facilitate his occupation.
I sit on the "They got off too easy " side.
And this is the good attitude. Go to another dimension instead of making all the planet revive all the wars and conflicts. Stop manipulation
@@sheldonwheaton881 dating in germany untill 1989 (the soviets)... This is not a long time for you lol. Annexing, under cover of liberation. Do not change the roles. The terrorist east block will never win. Even if they destroy the whole planet
They were nuked.
They still owe reparations especially to china, Korea, phillopines
Its a way to take away the pride of a people. I am German and this pride never got restored, I can see it when I talk with my grandparents. My Grandpa started to cry when he told me how he witnessed as a child that his mother went with allied soldiers to come back beaten up and in bad shape (raped). His father died in combat he has only seen him twice. I see this humiliation is still inside him as an 80y old man, and in a way it also affects my father and me on an epigenetic level and we can still see in our society that men who have pride get shut down very fast as its not wanted anymore.
Then you German people should not follow American order now. Why still becoming american lapdog til now. Doesn't make sense.
What your Nazi people did to Jews done to your women by allied forces.
...and remember, you civilians German so called elite class used to make mockery and laugh at Jews people when they were dragged and tortured in the streets. You were in the majority in terms of population...are you not ashamed of what you did to minorities that time?
Shouldn't have been literally the most evil group of all of mankind then. I only feel bad for the children who had zero role to play.
@@joaor3357What a stupid ignorant comment.
This is exactly what the purpose of the humiliation of the conquered enemy is. Humiliation and breaking up spirit of a potential adversary.
Your comment and the fact that Europe so far enjoyed peace are testimonies of effectiveness of it.
With few exceptions it is men who are worriers. Most of the time propaganda portraits them as defenders of the week and helpless (women and children), it is rape of women ultimate proof of their inability to fulfill this duty.
After these brutal events no German will be able to present himself as superior to others.
My wife is German. Her grandmother fled East Prussia (Germany) with nothing but two small children and a baby after it was given to the USSR. She walked 800 miles to Bavaria (the only part of Germany that wasn't bombed into oblivion). Along the way she was raped 17 times by Allied Troops and buried two out of the three children. She made it to Bavaria with my wife's father, the baby, whom she had a very co-dependent relationship with. In many ways, todays German people, who of course had nothing to do with the war, carry the emotional and psychological scars of the war from the their parents and grandparents.
They carry the memory of not to do it again. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” They lost. Good that they remember.
The innocents suffer most. The display of indifference or even psychopathy and wish for revenge in this comment section shows: Todays people are even worse.
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The world owes Germany an apology.
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All truth MUST come to the light. No matter how ugly.
Including the nazi attrocities you still denying
The horrors of war. It turns men into rabid beasts, on ALL sides. I'm hoping it's the minority and NOT the majority of men. A lot of men are so traumatized when they come home, they have PTSD!! I'm wondering if it's because they saw too much death, or maybe they saw these rapes and outright murder?! Probably BOTH!!! That would be hard for a REAL man to accept.
Isn't PTSD a term invented by pussies?
I wonder if those soldiers who committed rape after rape suffered from PTSD, I HOPE SO. Two wrongs can NEVER make. a right. The rapists were probably misogynistic pigs anyway. Many makes are ruled by their genitals, as they are today.
Gerçek erkekler tecavüz etmez. Güçlü erkek merhametli olur.
My friend served three tours in Iraq and 3 more in Afghanistan. He and his pals rescued a boy the Bacha Bazi tribal warlords had tied to a bed. The kid was 10 years old and had been raped thousands of times by the Muslim adult male, who bought him. The Army told these heroes "We don't interfere with the customs of the locals" and ordered the boy returned to bondage and sexual slavery to Allah man.
My friend ended up becoming alcoholic, getting divorced and moving to rural Montana to escape the PTSD as much as he could.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 lütfen arkadaşına saygılarımı ilet. Türkiye' den sevgilerimi yolluyorum sizlere, diğer yandan da devletimizin ülkemize göç ettirdiği 1.5 milyon bacha bazi sever ile aynı ülkede yaşamak zorunda kalıp, çocukları korumaya çalışıyorum. Yine de sizin suçunuz yok, iyi insanlar her nerde ise güçlü olsunlar.
War brings out the evil on both sides. I’ve heard war stories as a bedside nurse in VA hospitals over a 35 year career that I can not repeat, and if I did, would make your skin crawl.
It is the duty of anyone who knows anything about this to pass it on to the rest of the world so that the recurrence of such horrors is minimized as possible.
War exposes your true beliefs and nature.
The truth needs to be told.
💖 I get it. I'm sorry, too. I wish peace for you now and always. Take good care of yourself, Okay?
When will people ever lean that during a war no one is safe....
We have learned it. We know this.
Never, mate! We are All fuck-ups!
Do you think people believe otherwise? What a silly comment.
yes... may has been sold a the lie that war is only fatal to their enemy
@NostraDam The enemy is now the MAGA GOP .. lest you have been living in a MAGA cave
War is the great " x - ray " of human character . It exposes one's true character . If a person is rotten , I mean , just under the skin then war will expose it , likewise if a person is a decent human being , war will bring it out , believe me .
EXACTLY!!!!
Great comment, war is the ultimate moral crucible.
True
Vert true. But any position of power brings out people’s hidden nature.
Les Allemands et allemandes ont bien mérité leur sort lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Ils n'avaient pas à agresser les autres peuples.Quant aux femmes qui ont été violées cela me laisse indifférent.
many , MANY commenters in the past complained that this channel only showed crimes against humanity perpetrated by the axis powers and not by the allies , this video goes some way to set the record straight
I can't believe you are comparing the holocaust, which was planned and executed by German government to what followed 1945 ???
There was a German Holocaust at the end of WW2. Germans were rounded up in the occupied areas, those that had native German populations. They were forced marched to what was left of Germany. Many were murdered along the way.
The famous 1961 Italian film Two Women starring Sophia Loren was mainly about the battle of Italy as the Germans fought the allied soldiers fleeing north to escape before Italy surrendered to the allies. Sophia, the main character and her daughter were attacked and raped by allied soldiers when they were caught in the fighting. Many Italian civilians were attacked, raped or killed when a lot of them were caught up in the fighting between the Allies and German soldiers in the decisive battle for Italy.
UA-cam would not exist without the nazis . 85% of all videos are about the period the nazis were in power and their wars.
NAZI sympathizer
War is a nasty business !
You are right. Unfortunately, it can bring out the worst in some people, including fighting soldiers.
That does not excuse the choices of the men involved. There are no valid justifications. Claiming "war is a nasty business" doesn't make a man any less of a predator. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
No indeed , you are correct !
I was just making a general comment , I'm not trying to excuse any of this abhorrent behaviour .
" It's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight "
I suggest reading the book A Woman in Berlin. It's the story of a Berlin citizen and what she endured after WWII. It's horrific.
Why should I care?
Same for thousands of women in all conflicts over history
Horrific,true.But only a tiny little taste of what their own did to millions.
@@georgemiller151
Nobody said you had to care so quit asking stupid questions!
@@paulweston285
Doesn't make it right no matter what historical conflict in history
Always the women that suffer! Somethings never change 🙁
@Cher cher like they never start the wars, men do.
Wait, what? The men are simply executed while the women have to "have sex" and that is worse somehow? The men DIED trying to PROTECT the women - you ungrateful, woke, fool.
@@V.E.R.O. I'm looking at Europe today - where women ARE the leaders, for the most part - and I see them doing everything in their power to start WWIII in Ukraine.
Just saying...
@@danakaleb4882 Most of the women "behind the front line" never see an enemy.... for example, the German women during the first world war never saw the enemy after the defeat of their army ... with exception of the occupation of the Rein Ruhr Gebiet .... did you ever saw a women on a military cemetery? 22 million men died as a soldier during WW2...
@@KK-rg1wz ok. First of all, my great grandmother was Tito’s partisan, among many other women of her generation. She was fighting against Germans, Italians and others, like any other man. None of them were burried in military cementeries, because if they were caught by Germans, they were executed on spot as they were treated like terorists. Russian army had many female fighters. Some of them were even among the Best Sharp shooters they had. If women are given arms to defend themselves, they will be in front lines. Just ask Kurds. The problem was, that before firearms, women didn’t stand a chance in a Battle because of men being biologicaly so much stronger. Guns are great equalizer. My great grandma was sleeping with her gun and Pistol and never let them out of her reach. She also had bombs on her belt, for she would never let them catch her. She planned to take with her as many as possible with no way out. She was ready to die. I would rather die fighting than be raped, tortured and finally executed like an animal . I just need a gun. Luckily I was raised by Yugoslav communists. Every kid going to highschool in Yugoslavia had to learn how to shoot to finish highschool - no matter which sex. So, I shoot just fine. Got A for it. Tito said about WWI and WWII - in each following war more civilians die, so it only makes sense to teach them how to defend themselves and arm them if necessary. Yugoslavia could be defeated only by itself. Even Russians wouldn’t invade them.
Many, many moons ago, my ex & I had taken a trip out West in Canada. We stopped in a roadhouse for something to eat & meet some older guys. We got talking & for whatever reason the conversation turned to WW2. These guys came in just as the war was declared over & had joined up with some Russian soldiers that were to seek out any German soldiers possibly hiding in the countryside. These guys soon became aware that these Russians were nothing but cruel, vile pigs. I won't get into detail what they did to a farmer's wife, daughter & 7yr old boy. Eventually they hung them in the barn. These Canadians had had enough of these atrocities that; let me just say these Russians never woke up in the morning. Because of the fact it was still a war, nobody gave the demise of these Russians a second thought.
Well, not like the Anglo-Americans... they just massively earned syphilis in Europe...
These atrocities are probably true of all wars. I remember the awful movies of that horrible Viet Nam war. I sobbed openly at the continual rape and torture of a Vietnamese peasant, by American soldiers.
My in laws met in a force work camp in Germany. My mother in law was Ukrainian and my father in law was Belarusian. My husband was born in the Republic of Germany in 1949. They were allowed to come to America in 1952. They were not Jewish. They were eastern orthodox. My inlaws had a very painful difficult life. I wish I learned more from my mother inlaw.
Why was your family in germany instead of your country
@@myhonorwasloyalty Probably due to the war that the Germans started.
They were used as slave labor. I'm friends with an American who had two parents from Ukraine that worked for the German regime during the war. My mother was brought from Hamburg, Germany at age 6 in 1927. My Oma und Opa lived through WW l and wanted a better life in the U.S.A.. They went through hell as Germans during the war. Americans and many people in the world don't realize that living hell awaits us all. Feeling safe is not a fact. @@myhonorwasloyalty
You are a light in this world to carry the flame of their legacy.
Thank you for sharing their spirits and who they were. Are. They live because we remember. Thank you for doing that. Peace be with you always.
@@albertmarnell9976 Thank you also for sharing the legacy of your loved ones.
It's so cruelly ignored, and I'm so sorry that people forget how to see human beings. My heart breaks because of that. May their memory be a blessing to you. Peace be with you always.
My grandfather was stationed in Berlin in the closing days of the war and after. He told me that the German people suffered horribly during that time, that Germans were starving and desperate. He wasn’t proud of his service and didn’t want to be there in the first place, got drafted at 18. When he came home, he was psychologically damaged for the rest of his life. I’m sure he witnessed/knew of abuse against German civilians based on what he told me.
No empathy for them at all they were beasts that killed 6million Jews!!!!Hope they burn in Hell.
I think what does the psychological damage is that they knew what their comrades in arms were doing, but they didn't speak out or try to stop it. They simply ignored the crimes. And THAT I think is worse. Peer pressure can be an awful thing! I have a relative who served in the middle east in the 70's, and sometimes I think the reason he is in such bad shape mentally is because of that very thing! Men like to think they are heroes and protectors when they go to war. Some find out that they are really cowards. That is a hard pill to swallow.
Your grandpa could be a war criminal, and is just refusing to admit it.
Yes, I know a case, this man as a child witnessed a rape of a german Lady and it was so gruesome, he took his life as a grown man. He could not do anything back then but it was so demonic, he could not live with it.
Rape destroys the society. For everyone, including the ones, who committed it.
As Non Dylan sang: "You don't count the dead when God's on your side." Ironic.
Thank you for preserving these valuable historical facts. Only by recognising the truth can we move forward.
WAR IS HELL !!!
The powers in charge would disagree, and the business tycoons love the prophets made from war, they're the ones that start the mess and the citizens are the ones to suffer the consequences.
That is the bottom line of the whole thing.
This does not excuse men's choices during war. It is unforgivable. There are no heroes in any war. The Allied soldiers committed all sorts of atrocities. No matter how decorated they may have been when they came home, don't trust the myths. Women and animals are always the most tragic casualties of every war. This has still never changed.
That is too simplistic. It is accepting that there will be atrocities. The Germans and Japanese atrocities were much greater in number and degrees than the allies.
" it's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight "
I watched a video recently of a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz. At the time of liberation she was around 18 and in bad shape physically, as you can imagine. Afterwards, she also got very depressed that all but her sister had been killed. They found an apt. and she had to be carried. They put her in a crib, and during the night a drunk American soldier with a buddy broke into the apt, picked her up out of the crib and started taking her clothes off, but was stopped by his fellow soldier. She said he got infuriated, but left. He came back the next morning to bring her flowers and apologize. I bet she wondered if she’d ever stop being terrorized and feel safe again.
Garbage! Our United States Liberation Soldiers did NOT assault Holocaust victims. Period.
Hollywood says Americans never committed atrocities though.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 We did. Our men committed atrocities in France, Germany, Vietnam and Cambodia. But Holocaust survivors? From those filthy dehumanizing, murderous atrocious Nazi camps? NO! No no and double no.
Very sad.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 Hollywood is lier!
War is about destroying your enemy, not just the soldiers. War is about breaking your enemy, breaking them psychologically, physically, emotionally. Soldiers have assaulted the woman of their enemies through all history because that leaves your enemy’s society traumatized with no resolve to fight back. It’s disgusting.
Yeah it didnt work with my mom. Strong prussian women.!
Ya da tam tersi. Gel bir Türk kadınına tecavüz et ve tüm halk direnişe geçsin. Örnekleri çok.
@@donaldbell2415 The concept of ‘war crime’ is an absolute joke. War is crime, it’s about killing and destroying people, you can’t talk about some war as if it’s ethical compared to other war.
No mention of Italian women?
@@irinapivtchev8120 your last name aint german
Thank you for making this video. As the comments clearly show, too many people dehumanize the average citizen just because of where they live. Sickening and hypocritical.
I disliked all of these comments so less people can see them, thank me later
One particular time i was in the mess, (ex ADF Army) i said to the fellers around me, 'if we ever go to a warzone and i see anyone raping a civilian I'll put a bullet through you', i was expecting agreement but all i got was shocked looks. Just goes to show not all who wear a uniform are of sound character 😔
Not only that. They abuse power in any situation. They take advantage of the weak.
The one who starts a fight is the one who first dehumanises everybody else, the whole humanity. They who belong to a dehumanising nation should not complain at all, they should be first to ask forgiveness, to their enemies, and to their co-nationals.
Zero tllirenc,
In case anyone was wondering, why the Wehrmacht fought till the end...
Germans were asking for it.1914,1940.Krauts started it.
Actually they surrendered in mass on the western front. They fought to the end on the eastern front because they knew what they did to the soviets when they had the upper hand in the Soviet Union.
@@darryljones6129 True, but that doesn't mean that they didn't continue fighting there as well (e.g. Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945; Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 6. October 1944 - 10. February 1945; Ruhr Pocket: 1- 18 April 1945)
@@TheHolyActivist you are correct. They fought well. Some divisions of the Wehrmacht retreated from the East to avoid being captured by the Soviets close to the end of the war. Some of the hardest fighting happened when the Soviets started to take Berlin.
Combatterono perché in guerra ed alla fine per difendere il proprio territorio 👍
So informative.
Thank you
Peace 💕🇺🇲
Barbarianism knows no nationality.
I did read that horrible fact..And, Many there committed suicide…
I lived in Germany for a few years as hubby was in the RAF stationed there. I worked on the camp in a cafe. We had a cook that wasn't German but came from Easter Europe. She was in a camp that was just women. They were used by the German Soldiers as Comfort women. Once she refused and was kicked in the face and lost teeth. When the was was coming to an end they were "liberated" by the Americans. She said they were treated no better than what the Germans did. She hated the Americans as much as she hated the Germans.
I appreciate that it was a minority and I'm sure the majority behaved but war is war
@Cher cher wtf do you have a hard on for raping women during times of war like this is your second comment talking down to these atrocities
Yes. Non German women were treated very badly by some American soldiers. Having been in the Army myself, it is best to try to dissuade these people from these crimes. You may be called a wimp, but you hve done a good deed.
She was liberated by Yanks in eastern Europe?
This is bullshit , what you wrote . I stopped reading when you said German soldiers used woman as comfort woman...
You come here not to pay respect and empathy, but to point fingers. Your story is horrible, but its weird you immediately post this in a video about the rapes and torture of German video as if to deflect what happened and justify atrocities.
The platoon bullies sniff each other almost immediately. Then they gang up and establish informal hierarchy based on bullying, harassment and humiliation. That's the reality in the army.
Thanks for another educational factual video
My mom told me to that when she was a child in Germany...American soldiers kicked her mom, her, and her young brother out of their house. They forced a neighbor woman to cook and serve them. They also looted what meager valuables they had. Dishes were broken and furniture ripped.
Allied criminals
Cruel people
Blame Hitler he brought hell to their doors
@@myhonorwasloyalty Well at least they weren’t killed! The Nazis would kill the residents of houses they took over! Just ask the French!
and what did your grandfather? Defending his family? Oh no, I forgot, he participated in a war of agression, he invaded peacefull countries, murdering and stealing ... be glad the Americans came to save you from the Nazi's.
It makes no sense to do exactly the same things that on’es enemy did, in revenge for what they did. You show by your actions that you’re morally no better than the enemy.
Send me any source that wehrmacht or ss raped women in masses? Just one.
@Harmony hate only breeds hate. If you do what perpetrators do you are also a perpetrator. Especially if you’re doing it to people indirectly involved. And if you find joy in what happened to German women simply because of actions done out of their own control you are sick and full of hate. Just like the nazis were.
The Soviet Union TRIED to take the high road with Germany in the opening days of Barbarossa. 'Tell us what you want, and we'll GIVE it to you!' Finally, at Stalingrad, the Red army soldiers realized that Germany would not stop killing until they were killed themselves, and the tide turned.
@@PK__44 Thank you. I am saddened that so many People view Atrocities against Axis Civilians as unimportant or not Horrific.
Revenge is never about showing you're morally better. It's about getting even.
Like Tupac said: 'Revenge is the sweetest joy next to gettin Pu**y'.
History repeated itself on and on. From the beginning of times until now women are sexual assaulted and worse in times of war or other. Some men don't need a reason for this dispicable behaviour
"We had to take the young" No, no you didn't. What a horrid attitude.
You ask young men to do things they were taught not to do. War changes a person. It's easy to lose yourself
You're right! Savagery's let loose. The beast comes out; it was just dormant.
specially if you are a scumbag to start with
I'd argue that rather it shows the true nature of men and their individual wills. Takes every social and moral mask off of you right down to the naked core. If men like Desmond Doss and Léo Major could keep their principles intact in such horrendous conditions then I'm less inclined to feels sympathy towards the men who try to justify their own atrocities.
@@carrot8736 There's no shroud of morality or complex disguises involved. It's humans simply adapting to what they perceived is an amoral environment. They exercised the behavior that their circumstances permitted. Provided the resources, opportunity or incentives of gratification, everyone is capable of great good or evil.
No you have to be a terrible person to begin with. The social pressure that was preventing such actions is simply removed during the chaos of war.
Many times that's probably why so many of these soldiers didn't want to talk about what they did during the war. There was probably a lot of shame they carried throughout their lives that they didn't want to think about, whether it was raping helpless civilian women, putting the clueless new replacements on point where they snickered with their buddies about how the guy would be killed the first day, looting, or mutilating dead enemy soldiers. The PTSD isn't necessarily all about seeing their buddies killed in action. As you age, most people with a conscience understand and feel great remorse for things they did in the past as 19-year-olds, but can never be undone and it's as clear as last week until the day they die.
As a species, we are always one tenuous step away from barbarity.
Ordinary Hermam soldiers were told they would be shot if raped any women.
we are not all the same
Mostly by the red army. By far more than any other. They viewed it as the spoils of war and it was even encouraged as a morale booster. That's why Japan surrendered. It didn't have anything to do with the bomb. They were more afraid of the Russians after tales from Berlin surfaced.
Lol, no, this is not true at all.
@@chrisdelaplante5515 ua-cam.com/video/nGQq4SUIv0g/v-deo.html
My father was in Berlin after the war for studies in tecnique. He was horribled over how the american soldiers treated the women. So it was not only the russians that behavied bad. When he tried to interfer he got problem.
Not surprised at all.
Malmedy.
@@ffbeexaid4509 Tit for Tat
I believe that war brings out animal instincts in people. It is all so very wrong.
@Quisqualis683 and does that mean the Germans deserve no Sympathy? No matter wether the Germans started it it was the Allies who perfected it and committed it on a scale that would have even shocked many Nazis.
My mother was in a German labor camp from age 12-18 during WW2. She sewed the Nazi’s uniforms. They were made to walk back to Germany from Czechoslovakia with whatever they can carry. Child laborers, what a way to grow up.
So sorry to hear it, GOD bless your mother, your family and you.
A work colleague of mine told me how her father, British soldier, who fought in Europe during WW2 told her how British soldiers were r*****g German women after the fall of the 3rd Reich. He told her that there was nothing you could do, if you tried to stop them you'd be killed. I also knew a woman who was part of the exodus out of Dresden and she talked about how allied planes would strafe the roadways with gunfire on refugees as they marched away from the city. She herself moved to England with a young squaddie who had been stationed there after the war.
I never heard about it before. Actually, in the area where I am from, there were Brits and they were actually the only ones who acted civilized. So much, that we became friends and I believe, not out of Stockholm-Syndrome (like the East of Germany...) but because they were acting like human beings, encountering other human beings.
A woman who lived in Arnhem (near the bridge) explained to me the situation at the time. She was 14 then. The Germans were always very polite, even walking round the flower beds. There was one rape by a German soldier. He was found and publically executed by the Germans.
When the allies arrived, many many Dutch women were raped - and they stomped through the flower beds.
maybe, but same Germans raped and massacred many Russian girls....
Let me guess she wasn’t Jewish?
Bullshit
Yes.The germans were known for being very polite.And moral.And righteous.
What a pathetic story!
The Dutch happily gave over so many Jews to the nazis , I'm pleased to hear their was a little bit of revenge on this earth still.
@@Tali5899 The German were known for being very polite and professional to people they saw as equals, the Germanic peoples. Those they didn’t not so much. Ask the Eastern Europeans how decent and polite they were.
With all that happened to Germany it's a miracle it survives as a country to this day.
Thats because ysa controls it.
It did not actually survive. We destroyed it!
Germany hasnt been Germany since 1945.
@@pondusenglanq8563 1918*
@@iDeathMaximuMII so you mean it wasnt germany from 33 to 45?
Can you provide us with your source of information about such a crime committed on a larger scale? I knew about the red army but not about the allied forces.
I heard stories from my uncle who was in the german army.
@@irinapivtchev8120 I heard rumours at the bus stop that the earth is square!
I heard Joe Biden is a genius😮
@@jamesbarnes9504 I heard Putin is a genius! He turns out to be a cruel low-class thug.
Watch the documentary Europa the last battle.
The first act of ALL belligerent governments is to dehumanise the enemy. Most of us will recall posters of a WW1 fierce eyed German soldier towering over a cowering young mother holding her babe-in- arms. Equally, we've ALL heard stories of men (mostly) meeting their erstwhile enemies long after wars end, only to remain firm friends for the rest of their lives. I've known several, the usual comment is "they're just like us". RIP to them all.
what people fail to realize say in the german perspective...most german soldiers in Russia were just soldiers but the nazis would come in and commit atrocities' so people would assume every german soldier was evil this was actually used as a terror weapon..by their own govt
They were distant cousins to about half of the American troops. American soldiers were brainwashed into killing their own people.
It's cowardly to target women with violence whatever the situation, even if they are combatants. Restraint is what differentiates a human being from a beast in a human body.
Oh shut up. The Germans didn’t set a great example for human behaviour.
Not if they are combatants. Are you crazy?
@@starsaber9631 one of us is, but it's not I.
Thank you, yes. If you want to know, I highly recommend to read the diary of Anonyma "A woman in Berlin", she wrote without restraint and she wrote the truth. The kind deeds of soldiers, also the heinous crimes of soldiers.
We should never for get our common humanity 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Tell that to a German..!
The point is not make it right is to make it even.
Unfortunately humans dont behave like us, if only more of the good kind then we dont have the bad and the ugly
Two wrongs makes it better. I say in war time especially Germany one should take the women. That is a part of war. Japanese women too.
Who are you to say?
I know these stories of atrocities of the Russians from my grandmother. She experienced the Russians firsthand. They sat in her living room. My grandparents never spoke well about the Russians. I also grew up with the fear of the Russians. We lived near a Russian army base in eastern Germany.
@nostradam7036 Sarcasm is out of place here. And just for the record... not all Germans are or were Nazis. Germans also sat in concentration camps, were tortured and murdered. What happened in Germany then can happen in your country. Stop your arrogance!
@nostradam7036 Let me correct you. No one deserves this!!!!!
Let he who is free from guilt cast the first stone.
What country do you belong to???? I bet your country also has black chapters in its history.
I am not defending anything here. It is my fatherland and I was born here and I am in no way responsible for the 2nd world war. I condemn just as much what happened then... but also our people suffered, either by the war itself or afterwards by the Russians.
@@Jane-zy8fs "not all Germans are or were Nazis" either a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer, that's why you bomb Germ-any every few decades to make sure no evil is coming out.
@nostradam7036 I assume that you are Russian...
Yeah my Grandma is traumatised. For her, when the Russians are coming, is not a joke
Ich denke, die Gesellschaften der Opfer UND Täter sind schwer beschädigt und wir können nicht ermessen, was die Auswirkungen bis heute sind.
All die armen Seelen, seien es Opfer der deutschen Gräuel oder Opfer der sovietischen Gräuel, mögen sie Frieden und Heilung finden.
Alles Gute für Ihre Familie.
One can see why good people would rather push the button on nuclear weapons to defend themselves or seek revenge in a future war.
who's nuclear button do you mean? I hope you do not mean putin, the lunatic, because he is not defending anything, he is an attacker, aggressor, thug, murderer.
Yes I agree!
@@steveascension9626 Jesus said no body is good only GOD.✝️✝️✝️💔❣️✡️
@@davidgreene6976 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
@@davidgreene6976 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
I'll tell you this if you got into the American section you thought you were saved and that section had all the jobs and food.
The german people, my people, have experienced so much hardship in life; whats funny, when people think of the germans during ww2, they automatically think of all the horrible stuff they have done; but not once has anyone truly sat down and thought of their reasoning; citizens just dont wake up over night wanting to exterminate, their has to be a breaking point.
No one talks about the brutality towards german citizens that poland has done along their borders during 1918-1919, where the allies had made german citizans addicted to alcohol, pornography and degeneracy through the 1920s, or how no one truly discusses about the book burnings during 1933 and how germany was in such a horrible poverish state due to the article agreements that European crountries drafted and proposed on the german citizens until the day they refused their currency system creating their own.
No one wants to talk about the 24 peace treaties they sent out to the allies before 39, not many people realize that most of the Nawtsies where majority worried about russia and stalin; or how churchill pushed for the war to happen by doing forest burns along the border edges, no because their all perfect people.
But yes, lets just pretend that the millions of germans that where killed, and forcing the entire race to be made the bad guy in all of this, and nothing ever happened with the allies, because as they day, good guys always win history right?
Shut up
My stepdad was a Captain in the Canadian Army and he told me these atrocities also took place in Italy. Still, he also said to me that in the Candian Military, it was pretty easy to be shot for any major crimes against any civilians both male and female young and old unless you could prove it was in self-defense... Is anybody out there that can confirm this?
No
There are a couple accounts of rape by Canadian soldiers from German women, but they are few. Not everyone in the military "Served/serving their country" is a good person. I know from experience for every patriot there's unwanted shitheads too.
yes they committed crimes even after the war and nothing bad could happen to them
My dear friend's Mom was Italian, and was raped by German soldiers... She was just a little girl.
Rape was a capital offense in most militaries except the Red Army, which used rape as a means of subjugation and terror.
I will say one thing, 27 million people died in the USSR, of which 13-15 million were soldiers. The Germans and their allies destroy entire villages, including old people, women and children. One of the German soldiers, in letters to a friend, boasted of how they raped young girls in droves and how he liked them to resist to the last, and then kill them; this soldier was also surprised that there were so many virgins among them... There is a huge amount of evidence of the brutal murders of small children, including crucifixions, and I also remember how a German soldier killed a child with an ax (because the child was crying and did not let him sleep). I read letters from German soldiers, and letters from their wives and mothers, who asked to send a fur coat or boots, and also thanked for the parcels sent, one Frau thanked and wrote that she was able to wash a blood stain from the coat that he sent them, and how this coat goes their daughters..... For many USSR soldiers, the Germans killed all their relatives: mothers, fathers, wives, children..... How could they be kind after that? Do you seriously think this was cruel to women in Germany???? Only thanks to the power of the USSR, their generals and the kindness of “Ivan” was at least something left of the people of Germany!
So your only comment is to immediate deflect and resort to Whataboutism. No shred of empathy in your comments. Savage.
Thank you for video
British did the same in India..
Leaving food can hardly be described as 'sadistic'.
And rape is still much less shocking than concentration camp treatment - mass murder
@@dharmatmaram I interpret that statement as a way to justify the rapes of the german women
@@hakantorstensson8053 Then I suspect you're misguided.
But gangraping young girls to death can be.
And leaving some food after you did that, as if you're paying a prostitute, can surely be described as sadistic too.
@@dharmatmaram just because mass murder is (perceived as) worse, does not mean these things less atrocious
During and after the Battle of Berlin in 1945, there were widespread reports of Soviet soldiers committing atrocities against German civilians, particularly women, as they captured the city. While the Red Army was primarily focused on military objectives, the chaotic conditions of the battle and the anger toward Nazi Germany led to significant acts of violence against unarmed civilians.
Thank you for telling this story as it needs to be told n known about as my mum's aunts were all raped in Germany by the Red army .. n it's not told enough ..
Rape is disgusting. Germany, Japan did the same. Allied repeated it. War is wrong, which causes these unspeakable horror.
As a German,who 10000% is disgusted and completely against what THOSE certain Germans did,ty for this video.
My grandma had lots of stories.😒
Can you please stop saying those germans , the German people voted for adolf hitler in a general election . The german people in a referendum gave hitler a 95% approval to his enabling act which effectively allowed without any violence to allow Hitler to be the sole ruler of Germany as an authorotarian regime . The german people have adolf hitler consent to dissolve the weimar republic as the nationalist socialist revolution . These are the facts. When are today's germans just going to accept this that propaganda and dogma took over most of the German people period . The reason why this is so important is that this could be repeated and it was to an extent with Donald trump in the United States with his election lies and attempted coup
And secondly there was no serious partisan resistance movement by the Germans against the Nazi state . It did not exist . Stauffenberg was the only man who finally manned up towards the end of the war to get rid of hitler and his family were condemned as traitors
i personaly think that many things from past, we kinda cant watch thru our eyes, eyes of a modern man, coz those things were like 80 years ago, but when it comes to such crimes i bleieve it needs to be talked about it and judged. i am survivor of ethnical cleansing from 90ties in former yugoslavia, one of things they kept saying when we wer egathered like a cattel to one place, was this all is for 1945, and i was 9, in 1991, someone saying to 9 year old basicaly your town is flattened you are here where you are, people are dead around you, women and men divided, women are screaming from from various sides, you are ordered to strip naked and enter huge like a warehouse, inside is bunch of young boys and teens, and boys who are hardly 6. to be searched and inerogated completly naked and kept been told this is for 1945. coz if we kept silent about those stories from past, those expirences of people, from who majority is not alive an more or is in their late 80 ties and 90ties, those things will keep repeating. crimes of one can't justifie another crimes done by other side. it does not work like that. people who do crimes in wars have their names, and this story from this video is former yugoslavia story in ww1, ww2, wars from 90ties, is ukranien story today, is polish, is french, is any where in the world in any given past or present time where some kind of armed conflict is. kids are sold often to god know who and for what. war times ar emagnet for all kinds of sycos who even during peace do certain things just in a hiding. and they will do them once war is over. in my country war veteran recently was charged for rap**e of his own 8 year old daughter, if he was doing that to his own child, imagine what he was doing during war to other children..
Don’t explain yourself for what the nazis did
Unless you are one
And be proud of your Country don’t let history hunt you
Specially now days after it’s crystal clear that the allies are not exactly he good guys nor are they the hero’s they are just the winners
( Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen , that’s just recent history as there are many more evil intervention and war crimes committed after ww2 )
So did the women in the countries that the German soldiers invaded....well...many went to their deaths, so they didn't get to tell their grand children stories.
The same attrocities were commited to Polish women from Germans and Soviets, but nobody tell about their tragedy
I watched an interview with a red army soldier from WW2. What he recalled what his company did was so bad, if I were him, I never would have retold those stories to anyone. God forgive them.
Maybe he should also tell you what Germans did to his women? They saw it as tit for tat. It was wrong on all acounts, But it is as it is. Maybe you should also Check what German army was doing in invaded teritories. Hatred against Germans was so profound, that otherwise ‘good and civilised people’ were discussing, if they should leave any of them alive at all. WWI and WWII left scars in Europe that never healed.
@@danakaleb4882 commento utile. Grazie. Era "ritorsione,vendetta"
I can assure you that the German treatment of Soviet women was just as bad. Worse, actually, because as Slavs, they had been marked for slavery and extermination.
@@ThePlataf And yet the Germans who suffered as much as everyone else never get any sympathy. Raping and slaughtering Millions out of revenge isn’t going to undo the Damage done to your People, it also doesn’t satisfy a desire for revenge it only leads to you becoming as cruel and violent as the very people you oppose. Finally how is raping Millions of Women and Children who had nothing to do with the War acceptable? The Allies were no better then the Nazis when the War ended the Allied Powers had committed so many horrific Crimes and Atrocities that they were indistinguishable from the Nazis.
Did they deserve any sympathy after all the atrocities they committed
What is a war crime? When all war is criminality to begin with.
My mother lived I East Germay she said the Russian soldiers were always kind to the children. It ashamed I other parts of Germany these women had to suffer.
I think the Russians are essentially a kind people.
@@peace-now Just wow.
Ich denke, Sie können das Tagebuch der Anonyma lesen. "Eine Frau in Berlin" sie beschreibt ihre Erlebnisse mit den Soldaten der roten Armee, manche extrem grausam (aber keine Details) und manche sind sehr warmherzig und lieb zu Kindern. Manchmal sind beide Eigenschaften in einem Menschen verkörpert.
Es muss die Hölle gewesen sein.
@@peace-now Yes, potentially, but with enough wodka: nope.
I fully understand the soviet's need for revenge. But two wrongs don't make it right.
You mean the same soviets who murdered millions of Russians, Poles, Czecks, Lithuanians, etc?
@@emmanueldidier321 The Russians lost 30 million . 12 million combatants and 18 million civilians .
@@emmanueldidier321 yes. what the fuck do you think war is ? a painting party? get real. war is about death .
The Russians mistreated Polish and balkan people, so people who did nothing to then. They aint better than the Nazis
@@sammybeutlin2763 big difference is who invaded who? huh? answer that? just shut up . Because your argument is weak, and you know it.
I always have to think of the many innocent children that were begotten troughout Europe and in the East through violence by soldiers of any nation. These children and their mothers suffered all their lives, because they could not love their child. War destroys all human feelings.
It’s still happening today ; the poor girls who were kidnapped by Biko haram in northern Nigeria so many of them had babies by them. Some are still in captivity! It’s really sad !
Yes, it is really sad and a shame what violence was done to the young girls there these days.@@nnekam6153
@@blondkatze3547 Also the assults in Ukraine as we speak.
It`s so terrible women are always seen as spoils of war to take revenge on men.@@AmethystDew
Crimes in a war is a strange one: the legitimisation of mass murder is not the best place to set moral laws.
I hear the Allies were bad in France also, sad
and today Russia is doing the same atrocities to the Ukrainian people 😪
"A Woman in Berlin" is a good book on this aspect of the War. " After the Reich" is another.
The problem is the German people benefited from the barbarism of the Nazi soldiers. So when the table was turned and the German people found themselves on the bad end, they had no right to complain or whine or demand different treatment. Many of the things that had been sent home to Germany from the conquered countries like Poland were taken with brutal force from people’s homes. Suddenly the shoe was on the other foot. Lesson is: Don’t start fights to begin with. If you lose, you can lose everything. And you deserve it. That’s what happened to Germany.
Spoken like a true Nazi/Bolshevik! Congratulations!
@@sheldonwheaton881 you hopefully realize how bizarre you sound here. You actually accuse someone of being both a Nazi and a Bolshevik for criticizing the Nazis. Something is wrong with you
@@pamtnman1515 germany and poland had an border issue since versailles treatment. After that border issue France and England escalated the conflict and declared war on germany.
@@pondusenglanq8563 I guess you studied history at the World Economic Forum taught by Black Lives Matter people, because Germany declared war on both England and France first.
I can't write what I'd like to as I'd probably be banned off UA-cam. Women, children & the elderly always suffer the most during war, even today 😔
The Allies - We have done it Patrick! We saved Europe!
Animals are better behaved than Russian soldiers during WW II and even today.
You quite rightly referred to Stalin's quote that rape was allowed.
For most Germans and Eastern Europeans the so called end of the war was just the beginning.
Judging by how many of supposed quotes by Stalin are fabricated, I doubt he actually said that.
You maybe right. The important lesson is not to scapegoat thr innocent and become misguided. The nazis were misguided in many ways on who they blamed for all their problems
War and the crimes committed during and after wars was sick and depraved. My heart goes out to all of those who died in battle or were victims of war crimes. God Bless all of them.
If only that was the worst of WWII ..As I look at the present day destruction of our country I have concluded General Patton was right when he said “we fought the wrong side”
He saw it first-hand with his own eyes. We are paying for our own down fall now.
Patton was deliberately stalled by his superiors from reaching berlin first, so the red army could run amok in a rape and pillage frenzy.
Greatest Generation my ass
Their children put the nails in our civilization's coffin
It also happened in Vietnam.
The Germans did the same in the USSR. Why a double standard?
this is your dirty history
Disgraceful to say the least.
I had friends from Germany who told me what happened when the Brit soldiers first entered their village in 1945 after Germany was defeated.
The soldiers came in at first very slowly and with great trepidation and caution, carrying their guns cocked and aloft, poking every haystack and bush, until they were sure the area was safe and there were no German soldiers left hiding out there.
Once they took control however, they behaved in a very disciplined manner and didn't assault anyone. One time after searching a house they found an air rifle and all hell broke loose until it was explained to them it was the young son's who was just using it to shoot birds and was of no danger to them.
Later on, often, the little children used to run up to the soldiers stationed there and taunt them in their broken English with "You have a bird!" from the German idiom "Du hast einen vogel" meaning "You're crazy!". This of course left the soldiers somewhat bemused, the children not realising the direct translation has no meaning in English.
When discussing history....all Truths should be laid out on the table.
people have a hard time accepting they have been brainwashed for their whole life
So Sad, And so infuriating no matter which that does that to women !!
Hello, I remember watching documentary video where they talked to a handful of German women about this during world war II. One German lady talked about the French soldiers being cruel and just as mean and made the Soviet soldiers look like boy scouts.
Not only the French but also the British, the American and Japanese soldiers ... do not judge a nation by war crimes only. There were wars everywhere in Europe in the past and soldiers killed so many innocent people (children, women, the elderly, ...) Things will never change. The war in Ukraine today is another example. Many Ukrainian women were raped. And if you go to some African countries, it is exactly the same situation. What the German soldiers did during WWI and WWII in Europe to some civilians was an absolute horror (tortures, rapes, concentration camps, ...). Human beings can be evil.
Therre were good soldiers in every army.
I'd one was a bad as the other
It was a fucking disgrace
Which nation started the racist rape dehumanization supremacist propaganda? What does such a nation deserve for starting it?
And then there are people that believe that humans are born "good".....
We have some of the most violent people in the world living in the United States and a lot of the comments act like us Americans are so nice and friendly and not violent! Man this country is going to hell for all the sins committed in our borders!
Plenty of platitudes in this comment section ... but also more and more people waking up to the allies atrocities.
Women and children are usually victims of the wars 😞
History is written by the winners.
@@Tondaloona03 Turn ya ears on cobber. 🙂
@@Tondaloona03 You shouldn't do that m8, it's supposed to working for you isn't it?
@@Tondaloona03 You seem to be looking for something I haven't got.
Haben Sie dieses Problem oft? 🙂
@@Tondaloona03 My kind? LOL
You deny these things happened?
War always brings out the worst in people. Even in those who consider themselves to be good and civilized.
Facts
Women are reward for all they suffered and punishment for those against whom they were fighting. That was always in history.
Thank you for sharing! That's the truth!
Damn War breeds brutality and retaliation against Civilians. The fact that modern wars fought by Modern armies includes that too is disturbing as hell. At least we no longer capture people as slaves like we used too, right?, I think.
I m so proud of my Indian army who are taught to be gentleman. Remembering our legend Sam Manekshaw who made it very clear during liberation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan that no women of any age will be touched by Indian army.
One book that recalled some of the rapes committed by US soldiers in France: What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts, University of Chicago Press, 2913.
2913??? In 2913, we might be fighting wars, with sticks, stones, and highly advanced bow and 🏹 arrow technology!!!
Man 2913, must be a great time fighting aliens with out drones and AI tech in Space
I read that American troops trained for France were told that "French girls were easy" as a way to excite them. I imagine these boys were pretty young and inexperienced. But this film explains the state French girls were in by 1944: hungry, worn out, ravaged.
Thanks for telling the other side of the story.
War brings out the best in some people and the worst in others.
Ultimately it always leads to the worst. That is the point