The HORRIFIC Torture Of The Women Of The Battle Of Berlin

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Why is Trump in this thread? Seriously.

Thank you PePe for posting this thread . Those women endured bad things and most people do not even consider the things that went on after the War was over !.
Little off topic , sometimes timing makes all the difference and Aspies are not known for observing
Stuff like this .. myself included.. as well documented by some of my faux Paus here on wrong planet.
But current Warzone over in
Ukraine has probably got most of the focus these days .
But PePe is probably the only Aussie , I have contact with and am proud to know of him, and stuff he brings to this site !

Apologies for being late to the party—

My 2¢:

Yes, absolutely horrible what the Soviets did to the women of Berlin. Inexcusable.

But it’s not incomprehensible what anyone can do to other people in wartime. It’s not good, but it happens. When you consider the relentless assault Hitler raged in the east, he set in motion a series of events that left Germany vulnerable.

In contrast to WWII, WWI saw little to no fighting within Germany itself. Germany had previously attempted land grabs before, and little was done about it because most of Europe had already been involved in imperialism. Nobody went against Germany over expansionist policies. Germany invaded a “neutral” country that had long entered into a treaty with England for protection should Germany ever cross into Belgium. When Germany ultimately failed in their objectives and their government was left in ruins, the Germans collectively gave up.

Had you been within a German city at that time, you’d never know they were at war.

By contrast, Hitler not only brought the enemy within the gates of Germany, he fed his own people to the Russian wolves—the idea being that the German people had proven themselves unworthy and unfit as a superior race. What the Russians did is not excusable in the least, and we should never blame the women of Berlin for what happened to them. But I would like to point out that Hitler’s rise to power is directly a result of the people of Germany elevating him to that status. Hitler only had the power the German people granted him. The German people WERE responsible for that, and that means they are responsible themselves for weakening the Reich and leaving themselves vulnerable. THEY have to answer for the Holocaust. THEY left themselves open to reprisals from Russia when Germany lost its ability to protect its people.

Abuse of others is never right. It would be nice if people would just leave each other alone. Women shouldn’t be afraid of walking down dark alleys at night. But we live in a sick world in which that is seen as an open invitation. Is walking alone through a dark alley at night worth the risk of getting hurt or killed just to make a point? So should we genuinely take someone as seriously when they commit genocide and pick fights they cannot possibly win? In WWI, the Germans fought the Russians to a standstill with the Russians only blinking because of political upheaval. Were the odds of a repeat ever in Hitler’s favor? Highly doubtful, and no doubt Russia could have ultimately pulled ahead in WWI if they’d chosen to try. You can go down that dark alley with some muscle and have a fighting chance. So what happened to the women in Berlin, while undoubtedly evil, should come as no surprise to anyone.

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The Germans have taken responsibility for the Holocaust. Few of the people actually involved are alive anymore.

Not to appear contrary , but the horrors visited on the women of Berlin , Where after the War was over ,
If that has any revolence to this discussion .

Sometimes i feel that the Germans are the only ones to ever truly admit that they were in the wrong during the war, even after we tore their country in half.

Americans never really apologized for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki and created that stupid myth about how they "saved more lives" with the bomb.

They also never really apologized for locking up Japanese American families in prison camps until many years later.

The Russians sure as hell have never apologized for the atrocious stuff they did and never will. Hell they take a smug pride in it.

And as much as Japan has tried to rebuild their world image as a peaceful country, they never officially apologized for what they did to the Chinese or to American soldiers who were captured from what I understand.

And I've heard that the British werent exactly to nice to the Germans even the ones who were against Nazism. Some were imprisoned simply for the crime of being German much like how Americans treated the Japanese immigrants in their own country.

Not that the USA has nothing to apologize for, but dropping the nukes on Japan isn’t one of them.