re: #469 Purre

Those murders and rapes Red Army did were not part of that mass deportation. Rather Red Army did it to whoever got to their path, be it German, Polish, Jewish survivor from concetration camps… anyone. You can read more on that part of the war from Anthony Beevor’s Berlin 1945. Deportations themselves are not spoken of in that book.

true - but the mass deportation certainly gave fodder to the rampaging Red Army didnt it? those lines of refugees were easy targets.

yeah - got that book too. essential reading for all lizards who are into history. its an incredible book.