Sasha Korpanyuk 

Who Raped Whom in Germany?

Voice of the People
November 16, 2021

Who raped whom? In Germany in the last century?

An enormously important question—and, for some reason, a very current one.

Lieutenant Vladimir Gelfand, a young Jew from Ukraine, wrote a very truthful diary about the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers at the end of the Second World War. After the collapse of the USSR, the book was published in every self-respecting country.

It is one of two million FICTIONAL works published in the democratic world about the atrocities of Stalin and Beria, works that have flooded the world. Before 1991, nobody described these atrocities. There was probably no customer for them. Or perhaps the witnesses were still alive.

Readers, do you know how many important and original problems there are, and yet the pen sometimes turns to describing these no less significant events.

It is well known, after all, that the intelligence of a crowd is equal to the level of its stupidest members.

When an entire people loses its cultural heritage, the crowd begins to behave like a herd: hysterical reflexes dominate, and the most schizoid types become leaders. Well, you can see it yourselves.

And when permission for any crime has also been granted from the very top of democratic Europe, then you understand the rest.

So this is our report on brutal sexual violence.

Many millions of people were at the fronts of the Second World War—very different people, good and bad. Naturally, it is impossible to expect ideal, heroic, noble behavior from everyone.

Especially among an enormous mass of armed men accustomed to death.

Theft, looting, desertion, violence—all of that existed, because everything happens in ordinary life too.

But there is discipline, and there are punishments for misconduct.

The real issue is when carte blanche is given—when the superior says it is permitted.

March 30, 1941 — Hitler:

In the East, cruelty itself is a blessing for the future.

May 2, 1941 — Erich Hoepner:

“The war against Russia is the most important part of the struggle for the existence of the German people. It is the ancient struggle of the Germans against the Slavs, the defense of European culture against the Muscovite-Asiatic invasion, a repulse of Jewish Bolshevism.

This struggle must pursue the goal of turning today’s Russia into ruins, and therefore it must be waged with unheard-of brutality.”

And the other ancestors of today’s democrats were hardly lagging behind.

And now, here are the orders of the communist bloody tyrants. Quite right that they were banned.

“Punish severely, up to and including execution, for looting, violence, robbery, senseless arson, and destruction.”

(Order of the commander of the Second Belorussian Front, K. K. Rokossovsky, No. 006 of January 21, 1945.)

“The appeal of the Front Military Council concerning treatment of prisoners of war and the civilian population of Germany has been distributed to formations and units with instructions to ensure that every soldier, sergeant, and officer is acquainted with it. Political agencies have been ordered immediately to investigate every case of looting, rape, etc., and to bring the guilty to strict responsibility.”

April 24, 1945.

(Head of the Political Department of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, Guards Colonel Litvyak.)

It is difficult to write such things in literature!

You could give yourself a nervous heart attack trying to fight your way through the impenetrable jungle of phrases that will not offend readers’ feelings.

Besides, the USSR no longer exists, Stalin and Beria are no longer shooting people by the million, so why stir up the past?

Let us talk at our gathering about the indestructible fraternal friendship of the European Union instead.

Let us talk about other people and about events that took place, one way or another, during the Second World War—events that passed before the eyes of democratic historians with little notice for reasons that were quite special and, so to speak, subjective.

Therefore, brother readers, let us turn our gaze and paint in vivid colors the material supplied by our foreign partners and friends, in the hope that, in our world, their testimony is advantageous and above all else.

For example, did you know that on September 1, 1939, together with Hitler, the Slovak Army “Bernolák,” commanded by Ferdinand Čatloš, attacked poor Poland? At five in the morning it crossed the border and began hostilities against the forces of the Polish Republic, seizing lands that it regarded as its own.

But let us return to rape.

Missouri Senator James Eastland, in a statement in the U.S. Senate on July 17, 1945, concerning events of April 23, 1945:

“During the first day of the French troops’ presence in Stuttgart, 1,198 cases of rape of German women were registered. Senegalese soldiers serving in the colonial units of the French Army raped several hundred women over five days after they had been driven into Stuttgart’s underground shelters.”

Everyone remembers that Italy was Hitler’s ally, correct?

When Allied troops took the Italian town of Monte Cassino in the first days of June 1944, only a few days before the Allied landing in Normandy, Moroccan goumiers of the French Expeditionary Corps raped women and girls in the surrounding villages from the ages of 11 to 86, about 3,000 people in all. Several hundred women died as a result of gang rape.

Eight hundred Italian men were killed. In addition, Moroccans raped young men as well. In Italy, these crimes became known as the marocchinate—acts committed by Moroccans.

Can you imagine, readers, what would happen if there had been some secret pact by the leadership of the USSR allowing Red Army soldiers to kill and rape civilians?

How endlessly it would be chewed over, and how many accusations would be piled onto it.

Here are some events from those years.

According to Time magazine of September 17, 1945, the government supplied soldiers with roughly 50 million condoms per month, with vivid illustrations explaining how to use them.

The New York World-Telegram wrote on January 21, 1945:

“Americans look upon German women as booty, like cameras and Lugers.”

Dr. G. Stewart, in a medical report submitted to General Eisenhower, stated:

“During the first six months of the American occupation, the rate of venereal disease increased twentyfold compared with the level that had existed in Germany before.”

And that was despite 50 million condoms a month.

Of course, there were abuses on the Red Army side too. And serious ones.

A report of I. Serov, the NKVD representative attached to the 1st Belorussian Front, to People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs L. P. Beria, dated March 5, 1945, noted that:

“Particularly brutal treatment of Germans has been observed on the part of servicemen of the 1st Polish Army.”

The report continues:

“Local residents—Poles from Germanized Polish families—taking advantage of the favorable opportunity, rushed to loot the farms of their former German neighbors. The Soviet command was even forced to take a whole series of measures to prevent mass looting of German farmsteads and the plundering of industrial and other enterprises in the occupation zones.

Polish authorities, on receiving former German districts transferred to their administration by the Red Army, prohibited the population from speaking German, prohibited services in Protestant churches, and introduced corporal punishment for disobedience.”

A report from the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front quotes German residents as saying:

“It would be better for us to remain under Russian occupation all the time than to be under Polish rule, because the Poles do not know how to govern and do not like to work.”

A political report of the Political Department of the 4th Tank Army to Major General Yashechkin, head of the Political Directorate of the 1st Ukrainian Front, dated May 18, 1945, under the heading “On the attitude of the Czechoslovak population toward the Germans,” stated:

“During the period of our units’ stay in Czechoslovakia, the soldiers and officers of our formations repeatedly witnessed the local population expressing its anger and hatred toward Germans in the most varied, and sometimes rather strange, forms unfamiliar to us...

The anger and hatred toward Germans are so great that our officers and soldiers often have to restrain the Czechoslovak population from carrying out arbitrary reprisals against Hitlerites.”

One might ask: why, then, were there no partisans in Czechoslovakia, given such fierce hatred? If anyone remembers, Slovakia sent an army of 45,000 soldiers to the Eastern Front, almost all of whom perished near the city of Vinnytsia in Ukraine. Ferdinand Čatloš, Slovakia’s minister of defense and a victor over Poland, heroically surrendered.

The Czechs worked intensively at factories supplying Germany with weapons. Czechoslovakia was Europe’s second-largest arsenal, and there was supposedly no tyranny by the German authorities toward the local population. Czech industry was highly developed and supplied the Wehrmacht with enormous quantities of armaments.

But then the USSR defeated Germany!

That was when peaceful Germans—the elderly, women, and children—had to drink the cup to the bottom.

That was when Czechoslovakia displayed its democratic values.

The principal engine of violence, the author says, was the volunteer 1st Czechoslovak Brigade under the command of Ludvík Svoboda.

The “Brno death march”—the expulsion of 27,000 Germans from Brno—covered a distance of 55 kilometers. According to various estimates, between 4,000 and 8,000 people died.

On May 17, 1945, in the town of Landskron, today Lanškroun, a “trial” of local residents took place. Over three days, 121 people were sentenced to death, and the sentences were carried out immediately.

In Postelberg, today Postoloprty, over five days—from June 3 to June 7, 1945—the Czechs tortured and shot 760 Germans between the ages of 15 and 60, one fifth of the town’s German population.

On the night of June 18–19, in the city of Prerau, today Přerov, Czechs stopped a train transporting German civilians.

Czech soldiers under Officer Karol Pazúr shot 265 Germans, including 120 women and 74 children. The oldest murdered civilian was 80 years old; the youngest was eight months old. After the shooting, the Czechs looted the refugees’ belongings.

The European Union has always been a model of brotherly love and other European values, the author comments sarcastically.

A report from People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs L. P. Beria to I. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, and G. M. Malenkov dated May 11, 1945, on measures being taken to assist local authorities in Berlin, stated:

“There are large numbers in Berlin of Italians, Frenchmen, Poles, Americans, and British released from prisoner-of-war camps. They take personal belongings and property from local residents, load them onto carts, and head west. Measures are being taken to confiscate the looted property from them.”

Such are the democratic realities.

Let us conclude this presentation of documents with a quotation from the French newspaper Le Figaro of June 15, 2005:

“The victorious Red Army, Russian leaders, and the communists—French communists in particular—have things for which they should ask forgiveness. And they should strain their memory. All of Europe ought to demand this with one voice!”

Of course, the bourgeois order is undoubtedly still at its former height, but what was completely overlooked there was that 14 million German civilians were driven from their homes in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other Eastern European countries after the war and DEPORTED to Germany.

In August 1945, the statute of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg recognized the deportation of peoples as a crime against humanity.

And there was looting too—how could there not be?

Poland—the country that today demands money.

On May 2, 1945, the head of the new Poland, Bolesław Bierut, signed a decree under which all property abandoned by Germans automatically passed into the hands of the Polish state.

According to estimates by the Federation of Expellees, losses among the German population during the expulsion from Poland amounted to about three million people.

Czechoslovakia.

In prewar Czechoslovakia, Germans made up one quarter of the country’s population. They were concentrated mainly in the Sudetenland, where three million Germans lived, making up 93 percent of the region’s population.

By 1950, Czechoslovakia had rid itself of the German minority.

Hungary, which had been Germany’s ally at the beginning of the Second World War.

In March 1945, the Hungarian authorities adopted a land-reform plan under which land could be confiscated both from German organizations and from private ethnic Germans. By December 1945, a decree had been prepared for the deportation of 600,000 “traitors and enemies of the people.”

Hitler’s ally Romania.

At the end of the war, about 750,000 Germans lived there. They were deported to Germany—though, the author says, without violence: they were simply expelled.

And now a question. Politicians constantly talk about the atrocities of the Soviet Army, two million raped German women, and other horrors upon horrors. But politicians earn money with their tongues while serving their masters. Ordinary people remember. The pain of crimes against civilians does not disappear from memory. Today only a fool believes politicians without understanding the present.

Many people understand the present very well and look at the past from the standpoint of historical truth, facts, and, of course, cause-and-effect relationships.

And probably many understand who is violating whom in this world, and for what financial reason.

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