Violence in war, young girls. How the Nazis abused children in the Salaspils concentration camp

And such atrocities have been committed by the “heroes of Ukraine”!

We read and absorb. This must be conveyed to the consciousness of our children. We need to learn to decently interpret the detailed terrible truth about the atrocities of the Bandera heroes of the Zvaryche-Khoruzhev nation.
Detailed materials about the struggle of the “heroes of the nation” on this land with the civilian population can be easily found in any search engine.

This is our proud history.

"...on the day of the anniversary of the UPA, the Upovites decided to present to their “general” unusual gift– 5 heads cut off from the Poles. He was pleasantly surprised both by the gift itself and by the resourcefulness of his subordinates.
Such “zeal” embarrassed even seasoned Germans. The General Commissioner of Volyn and Podolia, Obergruppenführer Schöne, asked the “Metropolitan” Polycarp Sikorsky to calm down his “flock” on May 28, 1943: “National bandits (my italics) also manifest their activities in attacks on unarmed Poles. According to our calculations, 15 thousand Poles have been muzzled today! The Yanova Dolina colony does not exist.”

In the “SS Chronicle of the Galicia Rifle Division,” which was kept by its Military Administration, there is the following entry: “03/20/44: there is in Volyn, which is probably already in Galicia, a Ukrainian rebel who boasts that he strangled 300 shower of the Poles. He is considered a hero."

The Poles have published dozens of volumes of such facts of genocide, none of which Bandera’s supporters have refuted. There are no more than a notebook's worth of stories about similar acts of the Home Army. And even that should be supported by substantial evidence.

Moreover, the Poles did not ignore examples of mercy on the part of Ukrainians. For example, in Virka, Kostopol district, Frantiska Dzekanska, while carrying her 5-year-old daughter Jadzia, was mortally wounded by a Bandera bullet. The same bullet grazed the child's leg. For 10 days the child stayed with the murdered mother, eating grains from the spikelets. A Ukrainian teacher saved the girl.

At the same time, he probably knew what such an attitude towards “outsiders” threatened him with. After all, in the same district, Bandera’s men muzzled two Ukrainian children just because they were raised in a Polish family, and three-year-old Stasik Pavlyuk’s head was smashed against the wall, holding him by the legs.

Of course, terrible revenge awaited those Ukrainians who treated the Soviet liberating soldiers without hostility. OUN district guide Ivan Revenyuk (“Proud”) recalled how “at night, from the village of Khmyzovo, a rural girl of about 17 years old, or even younger, was brought into the forest. Her fault was that she, along with other village girls, went to dances when there was a military unit of the Red Army in the village. Kubik (brigade commander of the UPA "Tury" military district) saw the girl and asked Varnak (the conductor of the Kovel district) for permission to personally interrogate her. He demanded that she admit that she “walked” with the soldiers. The girl swore that this did not happen. “I’ll check it now,” Kubik grinned, sharpening a pine stick with a knife. A moment later, he jumped up to the prisoner and began to stick the sharp end between her legs until he drove the pine stake into the girl’s genitals.”

One night, bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovoye and killed over 100 of its residents in an hour and a half. In the Dyagun family, Bandera killed three children. The youngest, four-year-old Vladik, had his arms and legs cut off. The killers found two children in the Makukh family: three-year-old Ivasik and ten-month-old Joseph. The ten-month-old child, seeing the man, was delighted and laughingly stretched out her arms to him, showing her four teeth. But the ruthless bandit slashed the baby’s head with a knife, and cut off the head of his brother Ivasik with an ax.

One night, Bandera’s men brought a whole family from the village of Volkovya to the forest. They mocked unfortunate people for a long time. Then, seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut her stomach, tore out the fetus from it, and instead stuffed a live rabbit into it.

“They surpassed even the sadistic German SS men with their atrocities. They torture our people, our peasants... Don’t we know that they cut up small children, smash their heads against stone walls so that their brains fly out of them. Terrible brutal murders are the actions of these rabid wolves,” cried Yaroslav Galan. With similar anger, the atrocities of Bandera were denounced by the OUN of Melnik, the UPA of Bulba-Borovets, the government of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in exile, and the Union of Hetmans-Derzhavniki, which settled in Canada.

Even if belatedly, some Banderaites still repent of their crimes. So in January 2004, she came to the editorial office of Sovetskaya Luganshchina elderly woman and handed over a package from her friend who recently passed away. The editorial guest explained that with her visit she was fulfilling the last will of a native of the Volyn region, an active Banderist in the past, who towards the end of her life rethought her life and decided with her confession to atone for an irreparable sin, at least a little.

“I, Vdovichenko Nadezhda Timofeevna, a native of Volyn... I and my family ask you to forgive us all posthumously, because when people read this letter, I will no longer be (my friend will carry out my order).
There were five of us parents, we were all inveterate Bandera followers: brother Stepan, sister Anna, me, sisters Olya and Nina. We all wore banderas, slept in our huts during the day, and walked around the villages at night. We were given tasks to strangle those who sheltered Russian prisoners and the prisoners themselves. The men did this, and we women sorted through clothes, took cows and pigs from dead people, slaughtered livestock, processed everything, stewed it and put it in barrels. Once, 84 people were strangled to death in one night in the village of Romanov. Elderly people and old people were strangled, and small children were strangled by the legs - once, they hit their heads on the door - and they were done and ready to go. We felt sorry for our men that they would suffer so much during the night, but they would sleep off during the day and the next night they would go to another village. There were people hiding. If a man was hiding, they were mistaken for women...
The others were removed from Verkhovka: Kovalchuk’s wife, Tilimon, did not admit where he was for a long time, and did not want to open it, but they threatened her, and she was forced to open it. They said: “Tell me where your husband is, and we won’t touch you.” She admitted that in a stack of straw, they pulled him out, beat him, beat him until they beat him to death. And the two children, Styopa and Olya, were good children, 14 and 12 years old... The youngest was torn into two parts, but Yunka’s mother no longer needed to be strangled, her heart had broken. Young, healthy guys were taken into the detachments to strangle people. So, from Verkhovka, two Levchuk brothers, Nikolai and Stepan, did not want to strangle them and ran home. We sentenced them to death. When we went to pick them up, the father said: “Take your sons and I’ll go.” Kalina, the wife, also says: “Take your husband and I’ll go.” They were brought out 400 meters away and Nadya asked: “Let Kolya go,” and Kolya said: Nadya, don’t ask, no one asked the Banders for time off and you won’t.” Kolya was killed. They killed Nadya, killed their father, and took Stepan alive, took him to a hut for two weeks in only his underwear - a shirt and pants, beat him with iron ramrods so that he would confess where his family was, but he was firm, did not admit to anything, and on the last evening they beat him , he asked to go to the toilet, one took him, and there was a strong snowstorm, the toilet was made of straw, and Stepan broke through the straw and ran away from our hands. All the data was given to us from Verkhovka by fellow countrymen Pyotr Rimarchuk, Zhabsky and Puch.
...In Novoselki, Rivne region, there was one Komsomol member, Motrya. We took her to Verkhovka to old Zhabsky and let’s get a heart from a living person. Old Salivon held a watch in one hand and a heart in the other to check how long the heart would beat in his hand. And when the Russians came, his sons wanted to erect a monument to him, saying he fought for Ukraine.
A Jewish woman was walking with a child, ran away from the ghetto, they stopped her, beat her and buried her in the forest. One of our banderas went after Polish girls. They gave him an order to remove them, and he said that he threw them into the stream. Their mother came running, crying, asking if I saw it, I said no, let’s go look, we go over that stream, my mother and I go there. We were given an order: Jews, Poles, Russian prisoners and those who hide them, to strangle everyone without mercy. The Severin family was strangled, and their daughter was married in another village. She arrived in Romanov, but her parents weren’t there, she started crying and let’s dig up things. The Banderas came, took the clothes, and locked my daughter alive in the same box and buried her. And her two small children remained at home. And if the children had come with their mother, then they too would have been in that box. There was also Kubluk in our village. He was sent to Kotov, Kivertsovsky district, to work. I worked for a week and, well, they cut off Kubluk’s head, and the neighboring guy took his daughter. The Banderas ordered to kill their daughter Sonya, and Vasily said: “We’re going to the forest for firewood.” Let's go, Vasily brought Sonya dead, and told people that the tree had killed her.
Timofey lived in our village. The old, old grandfather, what he said, so it will be, was a prophet from God. When the Germans arrived, they were immediately informed that there was such a person in the village, and the Germans immediately went to the old man so that he would tell him what would happen to them... And he told them: “I won’t tell you anything, because you will kill me.” " The negotiator promised that he would not lay a finger on him. Then the grandfather says to them: “You will reach Moscow, but from there you will run away as best you can.” The Germans did not touch him, but when the old prophet told the Banderas that they would not do anything by strangling the people of Ukraine, the Banderas came and beat him until he was killed.
Now I will describe about my family. Brother Stepan was an inveterate Banderaite, but I didn’t lag behind him, I went everywhere with Banderas, although I was married. When the Russians arrived, arrests began and people were taken out. Our family too. Olya made an agreement at the station, and she was released, but the Banderas came, took her away and strangled her. The father remained with his mother and sister Nina in Russia. The mother is old. Nina flatly refused to go to work for Russia, then her bosses offered her to work as a secretary. But Nina said that she didn’t want to hold a Soviet pen in her hands. They again met her halfway: “If you don’t want to do anything, then sign that you will hand over the Banders, and we will let you go home. Nina, without thinking for a long time, signed her name and was released. Nina had not yet arrived home when the Banderas were already waiting for her, they had gathered a meeting of boys and girls and were judging Nina: look, they say, whoever raises a hand against us, this will happen to everyone. To this day I don’t know where they put her.
All my life I carried a heavy stone in my heart, because I believed in Bandera. I could sell any person if anyone said anything about the Banders. And let them, the accursed, be cursed by both God and people forever and ever. How many innocent people have been hacked to death, and now they want them to be equated with the defenders of Ukraine. And who did they fight with? With their neighbors, damned murderers. How much blood is on their hands, how many boxes with living people are buried. People were taken out, but even now they do not want to return to that Bandera era.
I tearfully beg you, people, forgive me my sins" (newspaper "Sovetskaya Luganshchina", January 2004, No. 1)...".

135 tortures and atrocities applied by OUN-UPA terrorists to civilians

Driving a large, thick nail into the skull of the head.
Ripping off hair and skin from the head (scalping).
A blow to the skull of the head with the butt of an ax.
A blow to the forehead with the butt of an ax.
"Eagle" carved on the forehead.
Driving a bayonet into the temple of the head.
Gouging out one eye.
Knocking out two eyes.
Nose cutting.
Circumcision of one ear.
Cropping both ears.
Piercing children through with stakes.
Punching a sharpened thick wire right through from ear to ear.
Lip cutting.
Tongue cutting.
Throat cutting.
Cutting the throat and pulling out through the hole of the tongue.
Cutting the throat and inserting a piece into the hole.
Knocking out teeth.
Broken jaw.
Tearing the mouth from ear to ear.
Gagging of mouths with tow while transporting still living victims.
Cutting the neck with a knife or sickle.

Vertical chopping of a head with an axe.
Rolling the head back.
Crush the head by placing it in a vice and tightening the screw.
Cutting off the head with a sickle.
Cutting off the head with a scythe.
Chopping off a head with an axe.
An ax blow to the neck.
Inflicting puncture wounds to the head.
Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back.
Inflicting other chopped wounds on the back.
Stabbing with a bayonet in the back.
Broken rib cage bones.
Stabbing with a knife or bayonet in the heart or near the heart.
Causing puncture wounds to the chest with a knife or bayonet.
Cutting off a woman's breast with a sickle.
Cutting off women's breasts and pouring salt on the wounds.
Cutting off the genitals of male victims with a sickle.
Sawing the body in half with a carpenter's saw.
Causing puncture wounds to the abdomen with a knife or bayonet.
Piercing a pregnant woman's stomach with a bayonet.
Cutting open the abdomen and pulling out the intestines of adults.
Cutting the abdomen of a woman with an advanced pregnancy and inserting, for example, a live cat instead of the removed fetus and suturing the abdomen.
Cutting open the abdomen and pouring boiling water inside.
Cutting open the belly and putting stones inside it, as well as throwing it into the river.
Cutting open a pregnant woman's belly and pouring broken glass inside.
Pulling out veins from groin to feet.
Placing a hot iron into the groin - vagina.
Inserting pine cones into the vagina with the top side facing forward.
Inserting a sharpened stake into the vagina and pushing it all the way down to the throat.
Cutting a woman's front torso with a garden knife from the vagina to the neck and leaving the insides outside.
Hanging victims by their entrails.
Vaginal insertion glass bottle and its breaking.
Inserting a glass bottle into the anus and breaking it.
Cutting open the belly and pouring inside the feed, the so-called feed meal, for hungry pigs, who tore out this feed along with the intestines and other entrails.
Chopping off one hand with an ax.
Chopping off both hands with an axe.
Piercing the palm with a knife.
Cutting off fingers with a knife.
Cutting off the palm.
Cauterization of the inside of the palm on a hot stove in a coal kitchen.
Chopping off the heel.
Chopping off the foot above the heel bone.
Breaking arm bones in several places with a blunt instrument.
Breaking leg bones with a blunt instrument in several places.
Sawing the body, lined with boards on both sides, in half with a carpenter's saw.
Sawing the body in half with a special saw.
Sawing off both legs with a saw.
Sprinkling hot coal on bound feet.
Nailing your hands to the table and your feet to the floor.
Nailing hands and feet to a cross in a church.
Hitting the back of the head with an ax to victims who had previously been laid on the floor.
Hitting the entire body with an ax.
Chopping an entire body into pieces with an ax.
Breaking alive legs and arms in the so-called strap.
Nailing the tongue to the table with a knife small child, which later hung on it.
Cutting a child into pieces with a knife and throwing them around.
Ripping the belly of children.
Nailing a small child to a table with a bayonet.
Hanging a male child by his genitals from a doorknob.
Knocking out a child's leg joints.
Knocking out the joints of a child's hands.
Suffocation of a child by throwing various rags over him.
Throwing small children alive into a deep well.
Throwing a child into the flames of a burning building.
Breaking a baby's head by picking him up by the legs and hitting him against a wall or stove.
Hanging a monk by his feet near the pulpit in a church.
Placing a child on a stake.
Hanging a woman upside down from a tree and mocking her - cutting off her breasts and tongue, cutting her stomach, gouging out her eyes, and cutting off pieces of her body with knives.
Nailing a small child to a door.
Hanging from a tree with your head up.
Hanging from a tree upside down.
Hanging from a tree with your feet up and scorching your head from below with the fire of a fire lit under your head.
Throwing down from a cliff.
Drowning in the river.
Drowning by throwing into a deep well.
Drowning in a well and throwing stones at the victim.
Piercing with a pitchfork, and then roasting pieces of the body over a fire.
Throwing an adult into the flames of a fire in a forest clearing, around which Ukrainian girls sang and danced to the sounds of an accordion.
Driving a stake through the stomach and strengthening it in the ground.
Tying a man to a tree and shooting him at a target.
Taking them out into the cold naked or in underwear.
Strangulation with a twisted, soapy rope tied around the neck - a lasso.
Dragging a body along the street with a rope tied around the neck.
Tying a woman's legs to two trees, as well as her arms above her head, and cutting her stomach from the crotch to the chest.
Torso tearing with chains.
Dragging along the ground tied to a cart.
Dragging along the ground a mother with three children, tied to a cart drawn by a horse, in such a way that one leg of the mother is tied with a chain to the cart, and to the other leg of the mother is one leg of the oldest child, and to the other leg of the oldest child is tied youngest child, and the leg of the youngest child is tied to the other leg of the youngest child.
Piercing the body through the barrel of a carbine.
Confining the victim with barbed wire.
Two victims being tied together with barbed wire.
Dragging several victims together with barbed wire.
Periodically tightening the torso with barbed wire and pouring cold water on the victim every few hours in order to regain consciousness and feel pain and suffering.
Burying the victim in a standing position in the ground up to his neck and leaving him in that position.
Burying alive up to the neck in the ground and later cutting off the head with a scythe.
Ripping the torso in half with the help of horses.
Tearing the torso in half by tying the victim to two bent trees and then freeing them.
Throwing adults into the flames of a burning building.
Setting fire to a victim previously doused with kerosene.
Laying sheaves of straw around the victim and setting them on fire, thus making the torch of Nero.
Sticking a knife into the back and leaving it in the victim's body.
Impaling a baby on a pitchfork and throwing him into the flames of a fire.
Cutting off the skin from the face with blades.
Driving oak stakes between the ribs.
Hanging on barbed wire.
Ripping off the skin from the body and filling the wound with ink, as well as dousing it with boiling water.
Attaching the torso to a support and throwing knives at it.
Binding is the shackling of hands with barbed wire.
Inflicting fatal blows with a shovel.
Nailing hands to the threshold of a home.
Dragging a body along the ground by legs tied with a rope.

Let's talk about the trophies of the Red Army, which the Soviet victors took home from defeated Germany. Let's talk calmly, without emotions - only photographs and facts. Then we will touch on the sensitive issue of rape of German women and go through facts from the life of occupied Germany.

A Soviet soldier takes a bicycle from a German woman (according to Russophobes), or a Soviet soldier helps a German woman straighten the steering wheel (according to Russophiles). Berlin, August 1945. (as it actually happened, in the investigation below)

But the truth, as always, is in the middle, and it lies in the fact that in abandoned German houses and shops, Soviet soldiers took everything they liked, but the Germans had quite a bit of brazen robbery. Looting, of course, happened, but sometimes people were tried for it in a show trial at a tribunal. And none of the soldiers wanted to go through the war alive, and because of some junk and the next round of struggle for friendship with the local population, to go not home as a winner, but to Siberia as a condemned man.

Soviet soldiers buy up on the “black market” in the Tiergarten garden. Berlin, summer 1945.

Although the junk was valuable. After the Red Army entered German territory, by order of the USSR NKO No. 0409 dated December 26, 1944. All military personnel on active fronts were allowed to send one personal parcel to the Soviet rear once a month.
The most severe punishment there was a deprivation of the right to this parcel, the weight of which was established: for privates and sergeants - 5 kg, for officers - 10 kg and for generals - 16 kg. The size of the parcel could not exceed 70 cm in each of three dimensions, but home different ways they managed to transport large equipment, carpets, furniture, and even pianos.
Upon demobilization, officers and soldiers were allowed to take away everything that they could take with them on the road in their personal luggage. At the same time, large items were often transported home, secured to the roofs of the trains, and the Poles were left to the task of pulling them along the train with ropes and hooks (my grandfather told me).
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Three Soviet women kidnapped in Germany carry wine from an abandoned wine store. Lippstadt, April 1945.

During the war and the first months after its end, soldiers mainly sent non-perishable provisions to their families in the rear (American dry rations, consisting of canned food, biscuits, powdered eggs, jam, and even instant coffee, were considered the most valuable). The Allied medicinal drugs, streptomycin and penicillin, were also highly valued.
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American soldiers and young German women combine trading and flirting on the “black market” in the Tiergarten garden.
The Soviet military in the background in the market has no time for nonsense. Berlin, May 1945.

And it was possible to get it only on the “black market”, which instantly appeared in every German city. At flea markets you could buy everything from cars to women, and the most common currency was tobacco and food.
The Germans needed food, but the Americans, British and French were only interested in money - in Germany at that time there were Nazi Reichsmarks, occupation stamps of the victors, and foreign currencies of the allied countries, on whose exchange rates big money was made.
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An American soldier bargains with a Soviet junior lieutenant. LIFE photo from September 10, 1945.

But the Soviet soldiers had funds. According to the Americans, they were the best buyers - gullible, bad bargainers and very rich. Indeed, since December 1944, Soviet military personnel in Germany began to receive double pay, both in rubles and in marks at the exchange rate (this double payment system will be abolished much later).
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Photos of Soviet soldiers bargaining at a flea market. LIFE photo from September 10, 1945.

The salary of Soviet military personnel depended on the rank and position held. Thus, a major, deputy military commandant, received 1,500 rubles in 1945. per month and for the same amount in occupation marks at the exchange rate. In addition, officers from the position of company commander and above were paid money to hire German servants.
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For an idea of ​​prices. Certificate of purchase by a Soviet colonel from a German of a car for 2,500 marks (750 Soviet rubles)

The Soviet military received a lot of money - on the “black market” an officer could buy himself whatever his heart desired for one month’s salary. In addition, the servicemen were paid their debts in salary for past times, and they had plenty of money even if they sent home a ruble certificate.
Therefore, taking the risk of “getting caught” and being punished for looting was simply stupid and unnecessary. And although there were certainly plenty of greedy marauding fools, they were the exception rather than the rule.
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A Soviet soldier with an SS dagger attached to his belt. Pardubicky, Czechoslovakia, May 1945.

The soldiers were different, and their tastes were also different. Some, for example, really valued these German SS (or naval, flight) daggers, although they had no practical use. As a child, I held one such SS dagger in my hands (my grandfather’s friend brought it from the war) - its black and silver beauty and ominous history fascinated me.
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Great Patriotic War veteran Pyotr Patsienko with a captured Admiral Solo accordion. Grodno, Belarus, May 2013

But the majority of Soviet soldiers valued everyday clothes, accordions, watches, cameras, radios, crystal, porcelain, with which the shelves of Soviet thrift stores were littered for many years after the war.
Many of those things have survived to this day, and do not rush to accuse their old owners of looting - no one will know the true circumstances of their acquisition, but most likely they were simply and simply bought from the Germans by the winners.

On the question of one historical falsification, or about the photograph “A Soviet soldier takes away a bicycle.”

This well-known photograph is traditionally used to illustrate articles about the atrocities of Soviet soldiers in Berlin. This topic comes up with amazing consistency year after year on Victory Day.
The photo itself is published, as a rule, with a caption "A Soviet soldier takes a bicycle from a Berlin resident". There are also signatures from the cycle "Looting flourished in Berlin in 1945" etc.

There is heated debate about the photograph itself and what is captured on it. The arguments of opponents of the version of “looting and violence” that I have come across on the Internet, unfortunately, do not sound convincing. Of these, we can highlight, firstly, calls not to make judgments based on one photograph. Secondly, an indication of the poses of the German woman, the soldier and other persons in the frame. In particular, from the calmness of the supporting characters it follows that this is not about violence, but about an attempt to straighten some bicycle part.
Finally, doubts are being raised that it is a Soviet soldier who is captured in the photograph: the roll over the right shoulder, the roll itself is of a very strange shape, the cap on the head is too large, etc. In addition, in the background, right behind the soldier, if you look closely, you can see a military man in a clearly non-Soviet uniform.

But, let me emphasize once again, all these versions do not seem convincing enough to me.

In general, I decided to look into this story. The photograph, I reasoned, clearly must have an author, must have a primary source, the first publication, and - most likely - an original signature. Which may shed light on what is shown in the photograph.

If we take literature, as far as I remember, I came across this photograph in the catalog of the Documentary Exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union. The exhibition itself was opened in 1991 in Berlin in the “Topography of Terror” hall, then, as far as I know, it was exhibited in St. Petersburg. Its catalog in Russian, “Germany’s War against the Soviet Union 1941-1945,” was published in 1994.

I don’t have this catalogue, but luckily my colleague did. Indeed, the photograph you are looking for is published on page 257. Traditional signature: "A Soviet soldier takes a bicycle from a Berlin resident, 1945."

Apparently, this catalog, published in 1994, became the Russian primary source of the photography we needed. At least on a number of old resources, dating back to the early 2000s, I came across this picture with a link to “Germany’s war against the Soviet Union..” and with a signature familiar to us. It looks like that's where the photo is wandering around the internet.

The catalog lists the Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz as the source of the photo - the Photo Archive of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The archive has a website, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not find the photo I needed on it.

But in the process of searching, I came across the same photograph in the archives of Life magazine. In the Life version it is called "Bike Fight".
Please note that here the photo is not cropped at the edges, as in the exhibition catalogue. New interesting details appear, for example, on the left behind you you can see an officer, and, as it were, not a German officer:

But the main thing is the signature!
A Russian soldier involved in a misunderstanding with a German woman in Berlin, over a bicycle he wished to buy from her.

“There was a misunderstanding between a Russian soldier and a German woman in Berlin over a bicycle that he wanted to buy from her.”

In general, I will not bore the reader with the nuances of further searching using the keywords “misunderstanding”, “German woman”, “Berlin”, “Soviet soldier”, “Russian soldier”, etc. I found the original photo and the original signature underneath it. The photo belongs to the American company Corbis. Here he is:

As it is not difficult to notice, here the photo is complete, on the right and left there are details cut off in the “Russian version” and even in the Life version. These details are very important, as they give the picture a completely different mood.

And finally, the original signature:

Russian Soldier Tries to Buy Bicycle from Woman in Berlin, 1945
A misunderstanding ensues after a Russian soldier tries to buy a bike from a German woman in Berlin. After giving her money for the bike, the soldier assumes the deal has been struck. However the woman doesn't seem convinced.

A Russian soldier tries to buy a bicycle from a woman in Berlin, 1945
The misunderstanding happened after a Russian soldier tried to buy a bicycle from a German woman in Berlin. Having given her the money for the bicycle, he believes that the deal has been completed. However, the woman thinks differently.

That's how things are, dear friends.
All around, wherever you look, lies, lies, lies...

So who raped all the German women?

From an article by Sergei Manukov.

Criminology professor Robert Lilly from the United States checked American military archives and concluded that by November 1945, the tribunals had examined 11,040 cases of serious sexual offenses committed by American military personnel in Germany. Other historians from Great Britain, France and America agree that the Western allies were also “giving up.”
For a long time, Western historians have been trying to place blame on Soviet soldiers using evidence that no court will accept.
The most vivid idea of ​​them is given by one of the main arguments of the British historian and writer Antony Beevor, one of the most famous specialists in the West on the history of the Second World War.
He believed that Western soldiers, especially the American military, did not need to rape German women, because they had plenty of the most popular goods with which it was possible to obtain the Fraulein's consent to sex: canned food, coffee, cigarettes, nylon stockings, etc. .
Western historians believe that the overwhelming majority of sexual contacts between the victors and German women were voluntary, i.e. that it was the most common prostitution.
It is no coincidence that a popular joke was popular in those days: “It took the Americans six years to cope with the German armies, but a day and a bar of chocolate were enough to conquer German women.”
However, the picture was not nearly as rosy as Antony Beevor and his supporters try to imagine. Post-war society was unable to differentiate between voluntary and forced sexual contacts between women who gave themselves up because they were starving and those who were victims of rape at gunpoint or machine gun.

That this is an overly idealized picture was loudly stated by Miriam Gebhardt, a history professor at the University of Konstanz, in southwest Germany.
Of course, when writing a new book, she was least of all driven by the desire to protect and whitewash Soviet soldiers. The main motive is the establishment of truth and historical justice.
Miriam Gebhardt found several victims of the "exploits" of American, British and French soldiers and interviewed them.
Here is the story of one of the women who suffered from the Americans:

Six American soldiers arrived in the village when it was already getting dark and entered the house where Katerina V. lived with her 18-year-old daughter Charlotte. The women managed to escape just before the uninvited guests appeared, but they did not think of giving up. Obviously, this was not the first time they had done this.
The Americans began to search all the houses one after another and finally, almost at midnight, they found the fugitives in a neighbor’s closet. They pulled them out, threw them on the bed and raped them. Instead of chocolates and nylon stockings, the uniformed rapists took out pistols and machine guns.
This gang rape took place in March 1945, a month and a half before the end of the war. Charlotte, in horror, called her mother for help, but Katerina could do nothing to help her.
The book contains many similar cases. All of them occurred in the south of Germany, in the zone of occupation of American troops, whose number was 1.6 million people.

In the spring of 1945, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising ordered the priests under him to document all events related to the occupation of Bavaria. Several years ago, part of the archives from 1945 was published.
The priest Michael Merxmüller from the village of Ramsau, which is located near Berchtesgaden, wrote on July 20, 1945: “Eight girls and women were raped, some right in front of their parents.”
Father Andreas Weingand from Haag an der Ampere, a tiny village located on what is now Munich Airport, wrote on July 25, 1945:
"The saddest event during the American offensive was three rapes. Drunk soldiers raped one married woman, one unmarried and a girl of 16 and a half years old.
“By order of the military authorities,” wrote priest Alois Schiml from Moosburg on August 1, 1945, “a list of all residents with an indication of age should hang on the door of every house. 17 raped girls and women were admitted to the hospital. Among them are those whom American soldiers raped many times."
From the priests' reports it followed: the youngest Yankee victim was 7 years old, and the oldest was 69.
The book "When the Soldiers Came" appeared on bookstore shelves in early March and immediately caused heated debate. There is nothing surprising in this, because Frau Gebhardt dared to make attempts, and at a time of strong aggravation of relations between the West and Russia, to try to equate those who started the war with those who suffered the most from it.
Despite the fact that Gebhardt’s book focuses on the exploits of the Yankees, the rest of the Western allies, of course, also performed “feats.” Although, compared to the Americans, they caused much less mischief.

The Americans raped 190 thousand German women.

According to the author of the book, British soldiers behaved best in Germany in 1945, but not because of any innate nobility or, say, a gentleman's code of conduct.
British officers turned out to be more decent than their colleagues from other armies, who not only strictly forbade their subordinates to molest German women, but also watched them very closely.
As for the French, their situation, just like in the case of our soldiers, is somewhat different. France was occupied by the Germans, although, of course, the occupation of France and Russia, as they say, are two big differences.
In addition, most of the rapists in the French army were Africans, i.e., people from French colonies on the Dark Continent. By and large, they didn’t care who to take revenge on - the main thing was that the women were white.
The French especially “distinguished themselves” in Stuttgart. They herded the residents of Stuttgart onto the subway and staged a three-day orgy of violence. According to various sources, during this time from 2 to 4 thousand German women were raped.

Just like the eastern allies they met on the Elbe, American soldiers were horrified by the crimes the Germans had committed and embittered by their stubbornness and desire to defend their homeland to the end.
American propaganda also played a role, instilling in them that German women were crazy about liberators from overseas. This further fueled the erotic fantasies of the warriors deprived of female affection.
Miriam Gebhardt's seeds fell into the prepared soil. Following the crimes committed by American troops several years ago in Afghanistan and Iraq, and especially in the notorious Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, many Western historians have become more critical of the behavior of the Yankees before and after the end of the war.
Researchers are increasingly finding documents in the archives, for example, about the looting of churches in Italy by Americans, the murders of civilians and German prisoners, as well as the rape of Italian women.
However, attitudes towards the American military are changing extremely slowly. The Germans continue to treat them as disciplined and decent (especially compared to the Allies) soldiers who gave chewing gum to children and stockings to women.

Of course, the evidence presented by Miriam Gebhardt in the book “When the Military Came” did not convince everyone. It is not surprising, given that no one kept any statistics and all calculations and figures are approximate and speculative.
Anthony Beevor and his supporters ridiculed Professor Gebhardt’s calculations: “It is almost impossible to get accurate and reliable figures, but I think that hundreds of thousands are a clear exaggeration.
Even if we take the number of children born to German women from Americans as a basis for calculations, we should remember that many of them were conceived as a result of voluntary sex, and not rape. Don’t forget that at the gates of American military camps and bases in those years, German women crowded from morning to night.”
Miriam Gebhardt’s conclusions, and especially her numbers, can, of course, be doubted, but even the most ardent defenders of American soldiers are unlikely to argue with the assertion that they were not as “fluffy” and kind as most Western historians try to make them out to be.
If only because they left a “sexual” mark not only in hostile Germany, but also in allied France. American soldiers raped thousands of French women whom they liberated from the Germans.

If in the book “When the Soldiers Came” a history professor from Germany accuses the Yankees, then in the book “What the Soldiers Did” this is done by the American Mary Roberts, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
"My book debunks the old myth about American soldiers, who by all accounts always behaved well," she says. "Americans had sex everywhere and with everyone who was wearing a skirt."
It is more difficult to argue with Professor Roberts than with Gebhardt, because she did not present conclusions and calculations, but exclusively facts. The main one is archival documents according to which 152 American soldiers were convicted of rape in France, and 29 of them were hanged.
The numbers are, of course, minuscule compared to neighboring Germany, even if we consider that behind each case lies a human fate, but it must be remembered that these are only official statistics and that they represent only the tip of the iceberg.
Without much risk of error, we can assume that only a few victims filed complaints against the liberators to the police. Most often, shame prevented them from going to the police, because in those days rape was a stigma of shame for a woman.

In France, rapists from overseas had other motives. To many of them, the rape of French women seemed like something of an amorous adventure.
Many American soldiers had fathers who fought in France in World War I. Their stories probably inspired many military men from General Eisenhower’s army to have romantic adventures with attractive French women. Many Americans considered France to be something of a huge brothel.
Military magazines such as Stars and Stripes also contributed. They printed photographs of laughing French women kissing their liberators. They also printed phrases on French, which may be needed when communicating with French women: “I’m not married”, “You have beautiful eyes”, “You are very beautiful”, etc.
Journalists almost directly advised the soldiers to take what they liked. It is not surprising that after the Allied landings in Normandy in the summer of 1944, northern France was overwhelmed by a “tsunami of male lust and lust.”
The liberators from overseas especially distinguished themselves in Le Havre. The city archive contains letters from Havre residents to the mayor with complaints about “a wide variety of crimes that are committed day and night.”
Most often, residents of Le Havre complained of rape, often in front of others, although there were, of course, robberies and thefts.
The Americans behaved in France as if they were a conquered country. It is clear that the attitude of the French towards them was corresponding. Many French residents considered the liberation a “second occupation.” And often more cruel than the first, German one.

They say that French prostitutes often remembered German clients kind words, because Americans were often interested in more than just sex. With the Yankees, girls also had to watch their wallets. The liberators did not disdain banal theft and robbery.
Meetings with the Americans were life-threatening. 29 American soldiers were sentenced to death for the murders of French prostitutes.
In order to cool down the heated soldiers, the command distributed leaflets among the personnel condemning rape. The military prosecutor's office was not particularly strict. They judged only those who were simply impossible not to judge. The racist sentiments that reigned in America at that time are also clearly visible: of the 152 soldiers and officers who were court-martialed, 139 were blacks.

What was life like in occupied Germany?

After World War II, Germany was divided into occupation zones. Today you can read and hear different opinions about how life was lived in them. Often the exact opposite.

Denazification and re-education

The first task that the Allies set for themselves after the defeat of Germany was the denazification of the German population. The entire adult population of the country completed a survey prepared by the Control Council for Germany. The questionnaire "Erhebungsformular MG/PS/G/9a" had 131 questions. The survey was voluntary-compulsory.

Refuseniks were deprived of food cards.

Based on the survey, all Germans are divided into “not involved,” “acquitted,” “fellow travelers,” “guilty,” and “highly guilty.” Citizens from the last three groups were brought before the court, which determined the extent of guilt and punishment. The “guilty” and “highly guilty” were sent to internment camps; “fellow travelers” could atone for their guilt with a fine or property.

It is clear that this technique was imperfect. Mutual responsibility, corruption and insincerity of the respondents made denazification ineffective. Hundreds of thousands of Nazis managed to avoid trial using forged documents along the so-called “rat trails.”

The Allies also carried out a large-scale campaign in Germany to re-educate the Germans. Movies about Nazi atrocities were continuously shown in cinemas. Residents of Germany were also required to attend sessions. Otherwise, they could lose the same food cards. The Germans were also taken on excursions to former concentration camps and involved in the work carried out there. For most of the civilian population, the information received was shocking. Goebbels's propaganda during the war years told them about a completely different Nazism.

Demilitarization

According to the decision of the Potsdam Conference, Germany was to undergo demilitarization, which included the dismantling of military factories.
The Western allies adopted the principles of demilitarization in their own way: in their occupation zones they were not only in no hurry to dismantle factories, but also actively restored them, while trying to increase the metal smelting quota and wanting to preserve the military potential of Western Germany.

By 1947, in the British and American zones alone, more than 450 military factories were hidden from accounting.

The Soviet Union was more honest in this regard. According to historian Mikhail Semiryagi, in one year after March 1945, the highest authorities of the Soviet Union made about a thousand decisions related to the dismantling of 4,389 enterprises from Germany, Austria, Hungary and other European countries. However, this number cannot be compared with the number of facilities destroyed by the war in the USSR.
The number of German enterprises dismantled by the USSR was less than 14% of the pre-war number of factories. According to Nikolai Voznesensky, then chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee, supplies of captured equipment from Germany covered only 0.6% of direct damage to the USSR

Marauding

The topic of looting and violence against civilians in post-war Germany is still controversial.
A lot of documents have been preserved indicating that the Western allies exported property from defeated Germany literally by ship.

Marshal Zhukov also “distinguished himself” in collecting trophies.

When he fell out of favor in 1948, investigators began to “dekulakize” him. The confiscation resulted in 194 pieces of furniture, 44 carpets and tapestries, 7 boxes of crystal, 55 museum paintings and much more. All this was exported from Germany.

As for the soldiers and officers of the Red Army, according to the available documents, not many cases of looting were registered. The victorious Soviet soldiers were more likely to engage in applied “junk,” that is, they were engaged in collecting ownerless property. When the Soviet command allowed parcels to be sent home, boxes with sewing needles, fabric scraps, and working tools went to the Union. At the same time, our soldiers had a rather disgusting attitude towards all these things. In letters to their relatives, they made excuses for all this “junk.”

Strange calculations

The most problematic topic is the topic of violence against civilians, especially German women. Until perestroika, the number of German women subjected to violence was small: from 20 to 150 thousand throughout Germany.

In 1992, a book by two feminists, Helke Sander and Barbara Yohr, “Liberators and the Liberated,” was published in Germany, where a different figure appeared: 2 million.

These figures were “exaggerated” and were based on statistical data from only one German clinic, multiplied by a hypothetical number of women. In 2002, Anthony Beevor's book “The Fall of Berlin” was published, where this figure also appeared. In 2004, this book was published in Russia, giving rise to the myth of the cruelty of Soviet soldiers in occupied Germany.

In fact, according to the documents, such facts were considered “extraordinary incidents and immoral phenomena.” Violence against the civilian population of Germany was fought at all levels, and looters and rapists were put on trial. There are still no exact figures on this issue, not all documents have yet been declassified, but the report of the military prosecutor of the 1st Belorussian Front on illegal actions against the civilian population for the period from April 22 to May 5, 1945 contains the following figures: for seven armies front, for 908.5 thousand people, 124 crimes were recorded, of which 72 were rapes. 72 cases per 908.5 thousand. What two million are we talking about?

There was also looting and violence against civilians in the western occupation zones. Mortarman Naum Orlov wrote in his memoirs: “The British guarding us rolled between our teeth chewing gum- which was new to us - and boasted to each other about their trophies, raising their hands high, covered in wristwatches...”

Osmar White, an Australian war correspondent who could hardly be suspected of partiality towards Soviet soldiers, wrote in 1945: “Severe discipline reigns in the Red Army. There are no more robberies, rapes and abuses here than in any other zone of occupation. Wild stories of atrocities emerge from the exaggerations and distortions of individual cases, influenced by nervousness caused by the excess of manners of Russian soldiers and their love of vodka. One woman who told me most of the hair-raising tales of Russian atrocities was finally forced to admit that the only evidence she had seen with her own eyes was drunken Russian officers firing pistols into the air and at bottles..."

Women captured by the Germans. How the Nazis abused captured Soviet women

The Second World War swept through humanity like a roller coaster. Millions of dead and many more crippled lives and destinies. All the warring parties did truly monstrous things, justifying everything by war.

Carefully! The material presented in this collection may seem unpleasant or intimidating.

Of course, the Nazis were especially distinguished in this regard, and this does not even take into account the Holocaust. There are many documented and outright fictional stories about what German soldiers did.

One senior German officer recalled the briefings they received. It is interesting that there was only one order regarding female soldiers: “Shoot.”

Most did just that, but among the dead they often find the bodies of women in the uniform of the Red Army - soldiers, nurses or orderlies, on whose bodies there were traces of cruel torture.

Residents of the village of Smagleevka, for example, say that when they had the Nazis, they found a seriously wounded girl. And despite everything, they dragged her onto the road, stripped her and shot her.

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But before her death, she was tortured for a long time for pleasure. Her entire body was turned into a bloody mess. The Nazis did much the same with female partisans. Before execution, they could be stripped naked and kept in the cold for a long time.

Women servicemen of the Red Army captured by the Germans, part 1

Of course, the captives were constantly raped.

Women servicemen of the Red Army captured by the Finns and Germans, part 2. Jewish women

And if the highest German ranks were forbidden to have intimate relations with captives, then ordinary rank and file had more freedom in this matter.

And if the girl did not die after the whole company had used her, then she was simply shot.

The situation in the concentration camps was even worse. Unless the girl was lucky and one of the higher ranks of the camp took her as a servant. Although this did not save much from rape.

In this regard, the most cruel place was camp No. 337. There, prisoners were kept naked for hours in the cold, hundreds of people were put into barracks at a time, and anyone who could not do the work was immediately killed. About 700 prisoners of war were exterminated in Stalag every day.

Women were subjected to the same torture as men, if not much worse. In terms of torture, the Spanish Inquisition could envy the Nazis.

Soviet soldiers knew exactly what was happening in the concentration camps and the risks of captivity. Therefore, no one wanted or intended to give up. They fought to the end, until death; she was the only winner in those terrible years.

Happy memory to all those who died in the war...

During all armed conflicts in the world, the weaker sex was the most unprotected and subject to bullying and murder. Remaining in territories occupied by enemy forces, young women became targets of sexual harassment and... Since statistics on atrocities against women have only been conducted recently, it is not difficult to assume that throughout the history of mankind the number of people subjected to inhuman abuse will be many times greater.

The greatest surge in bullying of the weaker sex was observed during the Great Patriotic War, armed conflicts in Chechnya, and anti-terrorist campaigns in the Middle East.

Displays all atrocities against women, statistics, photos and video materials, as well as stories of eyewitnesses and victims of violence, which can be found in.

Statistics of atrocities against women during the Second World War

The most inhumane in modern history there were atrocities committed against women during the . The most perverted and terrible were the Nazi atrocities against women. Statistics count about 5 million victims.

In the territories captured by the troops of the Third Reich, the population, until its complete liberation, was subjected to cruel and sometimes inhumane treatment by the occupiers. Of those who found themselves under the power of the enemy, there were 73 million people. About 30–35% of them are female of different ages.

The Germans' atrocities against women were extremely cruel - under the age of 30-35 they were "used" by German soldiers to satisfy sexual needs, and some, under threat of death, worked in brothels organized by the occupation authorities.

Statistics on atrocities against women show that older women were most often taken by the Nazis for forced labor in Germany or sent to concentration camps.

Many of the women suspected by the Nazis of having connections with the partisan underground were tortured and subsequently shot. According to rough estimates, every second woman on the territory of the former USSR, during the occupation of part of its territory by the Nazis, experienced abuse from the invaders, many of them were shot or killed.

The atrocities of Soviet soldiers against women were also monstrous. Statistics gradually increased as the Red Army advanced through the countries of Western Europe previously captured by the Germans towards Berlin. Embittered and having seen enough of all the horrors created by Hitler’s troops on Russian soil, the Soviet soldiers were spurred on by a thirst for revenge and some orders from the highest military leadership.

According to eyewitnesses, the victorious march of the Soviet Army was accompanied by pogroms, robberies and often gang rape of women and girls.

Chechen atrocities against women: statistics, photos

Throughout all armed conflicts in the territory Chechen Republic Ichkeria (Chechnya) was characterized by particular cruelty in the atrocities of the Chechens against women. In three Chechen territories occupied by militants, genocide was carried out against the Russian population - women and young girls were raped, tortured and killed.

Some were taken away during the retreat and then, under threat of death, demanded a ransom from their relatives. For the Chechens, they represented nothing more than a commodity that could be profitably sold or exchanged. Women rescued or ransomed from captivity spoke about the terrible treatment they received from the militants - they were poorly fed, often beaten and raped.

For attempting to escape they threatened with immediate death. In total, during the entire period of confrontation between federal troops and Chechen militants, more than 5 thousand women were injured, brutally tortured and killed.

War in Yugoslavia - atrocities against women

The war on the Balkan Peninsula, which subsequently led to a split in the state, became another armed conflict in which the female population was subjected to terrible abuse, torture, etc. The reason for the cruel treatment was the different religions of the warring parties and ethnic strife.

As a result of the Yugoslav wars between Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians that lasted from 1991 to 2001, Wikipedia estimates the death toll at 127,084 people. Of these, about 10–15% are civilian women shot, tortured, or killed as a result of airstrikes and artillery shelling.

ISIS atrocities against women: statistics, photos

IN modern world The most terrible in their inhumanity and cruelty are considered to be the atrocities of ISIS against women who find themselves in territories controlled by terrorists. Representatives of the fairer sex who do not belong to the Islamic faith are subjected to particular cruelty.

Women and minor girls are kidnapped, after which many are resold many times on the black market as slaves. Many of them are forcibly forced to sexual relations with militants – sex jihad. Those who refuse intimacy are publicly executed.

Women who fall into sexual slavery by jihadists are taken away from them, from whom they are trained as future militants, forced to do all the hard work around the house, and to have intimate relationships with both the owner and his friends. Those who try to escape and are caught are brutally beaten, after which many are publicly executed.

Today, ISIS militants have kidnapped more than 4,000 women of various ages and nationalities. The fate of many of them is unknown. The approximate number of women victims, including those killed during the largest wars of the twentieth century, is presented in the table:

Conclusion

Military conflicts arising on earth lead to the fact that the statistics of atrocities against women without intervention international organizations and the manifestations of humanity of the opposing sides towards women will steadily increase in the future.

Women captured by the Germans. How the Nazis abused captured Soviet women

The Second World War swept through humanity like a roller coaster. Millions of dead and many more crippled lives and destinies. All the warring parties did truly monstrous things, justifying everything by war.

Carefully! The material presented in this collection may seem unpleasant or intimidating.

Of course, the Nazis were especially distinguished in this regard, and this does not even take into account the Holocaust. There are many documented and outright fictional stories about what German soldiers did.

One senior German officer recalled the briefings they received. It is interesting that there was only one order regarding female soldiers: “Shoot.”

Most did just that, but among the dead they often find the bodies of women in the uniform of the Red Army - soldiers, nurses or orderlies, on whose bodies there were traces of cruel torture.

Residents of the village of Smagleevka, for example, say that when they had the Nazis, they found a seriously wounded girl. And despite everything, they dragged her onto the road, stripped her and shot her.

We recommend reading

But before her death, she was tortured for a long time for pleasure. Her entire body was turned into a bloody mess. The Nazis did much the same with female partisans. Before execution, they could be stripped naked and kept in the cold for a long time.

Women servicemen of the Red Army captured by the Germans, part 1

Of course, the captives were constantly raped.

Women servicemen of the Red Army captured by the Finns and Germans, part 2. Jewish women

And if the highest German ranks were forbidden to have intimate relations with captives, then ordinary rank and file had more freedom in this matter.

And if the girl did not die after the whole company had used her, then she was simply shot.

The situation in the concentration camps was even worse. Unless the girl was lucky and one of the higher ranks of the camp took her as a servant. Although this did not save much from rape.

In this regard, the most cruel place was camp No. 337. There, prisoners were kept naked for hours in the cold, hundreds of people were put into barracks at a time, and anyone who could not do the work was immediately killed. About 700 prisoners of war were exterminated in Stalag every day.

Women were subjected to the same torture as men, if not much worse. In terms of torture, the Spanish Inquisition could envy the Nazis.

Soviet soldiers knew exactly what was happening in the concentration camps and the risks of captivity. Therefore, no one wanted or intended to give up. They fought to the end, until death; she was the only winner in those terrible years.

Happy memory to all those who died in the war...