Russian brutality on invading Germany

To say it brutally : after having seen Dachau,Buchenwald,... nobody cared about what the Soviets would do with the German citizens .

 

It was payback for three and a half years of death and destruction.

 

Hi.
The Americans were the first into Hannover, the British passed slightly north of hannover on their way to Wismar on the Baltic. Hannover was in the British post war area of control.

Alex.

 

I also have this book,. The chapter on the atrocities in Prague goes into some detail about the atrocities against the Wehrmacht/SS and also the Sudeten Germans. Makes for grim reading.

 

Looking back, this was the sentiment expressed by George Stevens' cameraman when he reviewed their documentary"From D Day to Berlin" 40 years after the fall of the the Third Reich and when the account was televised by the BBC.The film saw the light of day when it was found by Stevens' son long after his father had died.

The origin of this documentary arose from an instruction to George Stevens by Eisenhower to make the documentary.Stevens, who postwar rose to be a leading Hollywood director made Eisenhower's copy in black and white while his own version was shot in colour film which he had access to....the colour film was shown by the BBC.

 

"To say it brutally : after having seen Dachau,Buchenwald,... nobody cared about what the Soviets would do with the German citizens"
My view too. I wasn't a participant, only an observer, in my childhood.