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28 Jul 2021 #61
@Bratwurst Boy
I haven't read much about sexual assault committed by Germans during World War Two. The general impression of Germans/German troops conduct was that they were of higher culture
(which is why it was such a shock when the world were given evidence of all the atrocities committed by Germans during ww2)
Still to this day U.S elite, businessmen and everyone having anything to say commend German efficiency and products (even Poles too mind you, although Poles have every reason in the world to say the worst out of spite, German tanks being in the Polish army and German car products in Poland is another example of that)
While Soviet rapes were prelevent, it came out of feeling of revenge. Most citizens of the Soviet Union at the time had been growing up with propaganda of "Polish landlords" being the wicked enemy and reason for all their misery and poverty (directed mostly at former Polish territories, all the way up to Smolensk) and Nazi Germans ideology of superiority towards other races (Slavs in this context) and were met with bewilderment from Soviets when entering German lands which were far more civilized and richer in equipment compared to villages in the Soviet Union.
It lead to wants of revenge and it was taken out on German women, no matter their age, looks or anything as it was motivated by revenge and a power trip "You think you better then us? See how much weaker you really are"
Reading those accounts and listening to documentaries of live witnesses was dreadful, it was literally hell on earth during ww2
I haven't read much about sexual assault committed by Germans during World War Two. The general impression of Germans/German troops conduct was that they were of higher culture
(which is why it was such a shock when the world were given evidence of all the atrocities committed by Germans during ww2)
Still to this day U.S elite, businessmen and everyone having anything to say commend German efficiency and products (even Poles too mind you, although Poles have every reason in the world to say the worst out of spite, German tanks being in the Polish army and German car products in Poland is another example of that)
While Soviet rapes were prelevent, it came out of feeling of revenge. Most citizens of the Soviet Union at the time had been growing up with propaganda of "Polish landlords" being the wicked enemy and reason for all their misery and poverty (directed mostly at former Polish territories, all the way up to Smolensk) and Nazi Germans ideology of superiority towards other races (Slavs in this context) and were met with bewilderment from Soviets when entering German lands which were far more civilized and richer in equipment compared to villages in the Soviet Union.
It lead to wants of revenge and it was taken out on German women, no matter their age, looks or anything as it was motivated by revenge and a power trip "You think you better then us? See how much weaker you really are"
Reading those accounts and listening to documentaries of live witnesses was dreadful, it was literally hell on earth during ww2