"The German Army suffered terribly during the First World War." "And the German nation also suffered terribly, especially after the war." "The crippling sanctions enacted by the victors with the Treaty of Versailles threw the country into serious depression." "There was chaos in the streets and anarchy in the air." "Communists seized many cities, including Berlin." "While the great wealth of the nation was bled away by outrageous war reparations, or sucked out by unscrupulous politicians, the average German was impoverished." "Inflation and unemployment soon followed and quickly destroyed all hope, all confidence, all morality." "German cities were awash in pornography and prostitution with even starving children being bought and sold like sex toys." "Crime was rampant;" "drunkenness and drug addiction were widespread;" "suicide rates soared; the situation seemed hopeless." "And then, things changed... dramatically." "Soon after the National Socialists were elected, the German economy sprang to life." "Unemployment was erased." "Building boomed." "Great projects began." "Confidence burst to life anew." "After years of hunger, hardship, shame, and degradation," "Germany became a happy, hopeful nation again." "Germany's transformation from squalor and misery to a world super power was so incredible that the 1938 Time Magazine named Adolf Hitler "Man of the Year."" "To many it seemed as if a new cultural, economic, and political renaissance for all of Europe was at hand." "But others, throughout the world - envious, powerful, but above all, fearful - now worked night and day to take Germany down...." "The Second World War was the most deadly and destructive war in history." "For six long years the unequal struggle pitting Germany against the world continued, with first one side, then the other on top." "But at last, overwhelmed, Germany was once more defeated." "This time, however, the Reich was to be punished not with mere reparations... nor loss of land... nor with simple decadence and despair; no, on this occasion Germany was to be subjected to pure hatred; hatred of the most vicious, evil and depraved kind imaginable." "Millions upon millions of Germans, many of whom had nothing to do with the war, were systematically raped, tortured, slaughtered, and all in the most sadistic and sickening ways imaginable." "What happened to Germany and its people during and after World War II has remained the darkest and best-kept secret in world history... until now." "This film is based upon the book by author and historian, Thomas Goodrich." "Over the past thirty years Goodrich has written about a number of controversial subjects - the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, the American Indian wars - but because World War Two remains to this very day a pressing issue," "the author feels this is by far his most urgent and timely book." "Thomas Goodrich:" "This is the story of the crimes that were committed against Germany during and after World War Two." "The words you will hear are those of the victims themselves and witnesses to the atrocities." "There will be no attempt here to present the viewpoint of the "other side." Anyone seeking the victor's version of World War II, need only watch any" "Hollywood movie, turn on the TV to any World War II documentary, or visit any public library." "This film, like the book it is based upon, does not concern itself with what the Germans allegedly "did to the world" during the so - called "Good War." No." "The focus here is instead on what the world did to the Germans." "The crimes detailed herein are so vicious, so massive, and so evil, that there are no words in the English language to accurately describe them." "These are crimes that have been buried by the victors under a mountain of propaganda and lies for now over 70 years." "This film is dedicated not only to the voiceless victims of the world's worst war, but also to future generations." "Our hope is, that if there are enough good people in the world, are willing to listen and learn what actually occurred to these innocent victims - men, women, the old, young, the sick, animals " "then they some day soon will rise up as one, and with a united voice demand that nothing like this ever happens again, to anyone, anywhere." "TERROR BOMBING" "During World War Two, Germany was subjected to an unrelenting assault from the sky." "The Americans and British called it "carpet-bombing", "saturation-bombing", or "unrestricted-bombing"." "However, the German women and children who suffered through this nightmare called it by a simpler, more accurate name - "Terror-Bombing."" "The terror campaign was no accident." "It was the secret plan of British Prime Minister" "Winston Churchill and Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris to unleash the full power of the" "Royal Air Force against German civilians; to inflict as much damage, to destroy as many homes, and to kill as many men, women and children as possible." "Winston Churchill:" "German cities will be subjected to an ordeal the like of which has never been experienced by a country in continuity, severity or magnitude." "To achieve this end there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go." "Churchill's violence was on full display during the night of July 24, 1943." "To the residents of Hamburg - a city of over one million souls - the raid seemed initially like a standard bombing run." "But soon, hundreds of enemy aircraft began raining down tons upon tons of high explosives on the very heart of Hamburg." "Schools, churches, hospitals, homes, ancient art and architecture, all were blown to bits." "The onslaught increased in fury with each succeeding wave of bombers, building minute by minute into a fiery, devastating crescendo" "And then, the planes suddenly disappeared." "The skies were clear again, and all above was silent." "When the stunned survivors reemerged from their cellars later that night, they saw that their once beautiful city was now a smoldering ruin." "The following day, as firefighters from throughout northern Germany battled the blaze," "Allied bombers suddenly appeared over Hamburg again." "As planned, the Americans surprised not only the emergency workers, but columns of fleeing refugees as well." "Thousands perished." "The next night, RAF bombers returned." "In addition to the normal payload of high explosives, the British sent down tons of phosphorous bombs to accelerate the fires." "The resulting conflagration ignited a "fire storm." Hurricane-force winds created by the intense heat uprooted trees, ripped roofs from buildings and sucked screaming victims into the raging inferno." "Some who escaped the 150 mph (241 kph) winds in the streets became mired in melting asphalt and quickly burst into flames." "Those who had thrown themselves into the city's canals died of thermal radiation, then, as they floated on the water's surface, they too ignited." "In the center of the fire-storm, temperatures reached 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (816 C)." "When the great mass of flames joined, they rose into a column three miles high." "The attacks against Hamburg continued unabated for another week." "Soon, there was nothing left to destroy." "Appropriately dubbed by the Allies as "Operation Gomorrah," the raids had been a cold and calculated attempt to scorch Hamburg and its people, from the face of the earth." "The plan succeeded." "With thirteen square miles of total destruction, with 750,000 homeless, with an estimated 60 to 100,000 dead, mostly women and children," "Hamburg, for all intents and purposes, had ceased to exist." "It was now clear to all that the Allied air war against Germany had become a war ofmassacre and terror." "The pattern was repeated time and again across Germany." "All German cities suffered the same." "After first blasting a town to splinters, the Allied bombers quickly returned in the hope of catching survivors and rescuers in the open and igniting with fire bombs all that remained." "When the roaring bombers released their lethal cargo, a veritable rain of fire descended upon a targeted town." "The thousands of small fires would join together to form one huge blaze, creating an intense vortex of wind and flames." "Kate Hoffmeister:" "I struggled to run against the wind in the middle of the street." "We couldn't go on across because the asphalt had melted." "There were people on the roadway, some already dead, some still lying alive but stuck in the asphalt." "They were on their hands and knees screaming." "Some miraculously survived the inferno, reaching safety in rivers, canals and parks." "Thousands more, however, did not." "When the raids finally ended and the firestorms began to recede, rescue workers rushed to free those still trapped underground." "When would-be rescuers finally broke through to buried bunkers they often found scenes of unimaginable horror." "In cellars suffering direct hits, walls were awash in blood, with bone, brains and body parts splattered everywhere." "Rescuers who entered some bunkers found floors covered, in up to a foot of greasy fat, the victims rendered down into a dark liquid." "When word first filtered through to the outside world of the butchery being visited upon the women and children of Germany by the Royal Air Force, critics of these war crimes spoke out" "Author Vera Brittain:" "The ruthless mass bombing of congested cities is as great a threat to the integrity of the human spirit as anything which has yet occurred on this planet." "There is no military or political advantage which can justify this blasphemy." "Although it was considered treasonous for members of the RAF to criticize the bombing campaign the conscience of some was overwhelmed by the hell being unleashed upon Germany." "RAF Aviator:" "There were people down there being fried to death in melted asphalt in the roads, they were being burnt up and we were shuffling incendiary bombs into this holocaust." "I felt terribly sorry for the people in that fire I was helping to stoke up." "As a symbol of the Third Reich, and as the most obvious example of Germany's will to fight on, more bombs were devoted to Berlin than any other German city." "It is another place, however, that has become most widely associated with the terror campaign waged against Germany" " Dresden." "Since Dresden had suffered only two small raids in the five years of war, many assumed that the city's salvation was due to its irreplaceable treasures - ornate palaces, world-renowned museums and art galleries, its towering, centuries-old cathedrals." "Others surmised that since Dresden had almost no heavy industry - and what little it did have had no bearing on the war - the enemy simply did not deem the city a viable target." "To some, the twenty-six thousand Allied POWs interned within the town appeared a more logical answer." "Still others thought that, perhaps it was the estimated half million refugees jamming the city, many who had fled Soviet atrocities in the East, that kept Dresden safe from bombing." "Despite the dire situation as war closed in, Dresdeners were determined on the night of" "February 13 to enjoy an annual event, known in America as Mardi Gras, but celebrated in" "Germany as "Fashing." Women and children, along with the few remaining men, many in costume, flooded the streets of Dresden to celebrate the event, one last time, before Germany's looming defeat." "Just before ten p.m. sirens began wailing." "There was no panic." "Most residents simply ignored the sounds." "Even had there been any air raid shelters few would have fled to them for there seemed little doubt on this cold, yet cheery night, that like the 171 false alarms which had preceded it, this warning too, would end in nothing." "However, instead of the "All Clear" siren, a short time later Dresden heard another sound, a sound similar to a rolling earthquake." "As wave after wave of RAF bombers appeared overhead, thousands of bombs tumbled down." "Added to the normal payload of high explosives, hundreds of two- and four-ton "block-buster" bombs slammed into Dresden, obliterating entire neighborhoods." "Ancient cathedrals, palaces and museums were reduced to rubble within seconds." "At the railroad station, hundreds of individuals who had refused to leave their highly coveted train seats were blown to bits." "At the huge indoor circus, spectators, performers and animals were slaughtered by blast and hissing shrapnel." "Well-marked hospitals were targeted." "In the streets, on the sidewalks, atop the bridges over the Elbe River, costumed revelers with nowhere to run, were slain by the thousands." "Without let-up, the massacre continued." "And then, the roar above ceased, the explosions stopped, and there was quiet once more." "Several minutes later, the welcomed silence was broken, by the even more welcome sound of the" ""All Clear" signal." "What had seemed an all - night trial by fire had actually occurred in just under half an hour." "In those thirty minutes, however, one of the world's most beautiful architectural treasures had all but vanished." "Fire brigades from surrounding towns arrived." "Red Cross workers spread out to help the victims." "Families screamed for missing loved ones." "For many, the end of the world had seemingly arrived." "No one, however, was at all emotionally prepared for what came next...." "At 1:30 a.m., the earth began to tremble once again." "As more than a thousand bombers roared overhead, a rain of death showered down on Dresden." "In addition to explosives, the second wave brought tons of incendiary bombs." "In a matter of minutes, the thousands of fire bombs ignited the debris and a racing furnace of flame erupted." "Unfamiliar with the bombing raids and fire storms, most Dresdeners reacted slowly." "Many sought safety in cellars again, not realizing that the terrific heat would transform their havens into ovens." "Others ran for safety through the streets, only to become mired in melting asphalt or sucked into the roaring furnace." "Copper roofs melted, sending down streams of molten metal upon the people below." "Throughout the night, the fiery hell that was Dresden claimed victims by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, and by the hundreds of thousands." "The following day, when the fires had cooled, rescue workers went to work." "Rescue worker:" "Never would I have thought that death could come to so many people in so many different ways." "Sometimes the victims looked like ordinary people apparently peacefully sleeping; the faces of others were racked with pain, the bodies stripped almost naked by the tornado; there were wretched refugees from the East clad only in rags," "and people from the Opera in all their finery; here the victim was a shapeless slab, there a layer of ashes." "Across the city, along the streets wafted the unmistakable stench of decaying flesh." "Indeed, of all the hideous scents wafting through Dresden - sulfur, gas, sewage - the heavy stench of cooked flesh blanketed all." "What were at first mistaken to be thousands of burnt logs scattered about the streets were soon found to be charred corpses glued to the surface, each reduced to roughly three feet." "Rescue worker:" "One shape I will never forget was the remains of what had apparently been a mother and a child." "They had shriveled and charred into one piece, and had been stuck rigidly to the asphalt." "They had just been prised up." "The child must have been underneath the mother, because you could still clearly see its shape, with its mother's arms clasped around it." "Aware that those in the old city would flee the flames to the open spaces, the RAF had hurled hundreds of high explosive bombs into the huge central park." "Here, the slaughter was ghastly - torn-off limbs, mutilated torsos, heads blown from their bodies and hurled away." "The nightmare was everywhere." "Red Cross Worker:" "I went down on my knees, trembled and cried." "Several women lay there with their bellies burst open, and one could see the babies for they were hanging half outside." "Many of the babies were mutilated." "Scenes like that one I saw everywhere and very slowly one became numbed." "One acted like a zombie." "The next morning, word spread that survivors should assemble in the city park." "As the suffering mass climbed over the debris and the dead, they reached the park as well as the grassy banks of the Elbe." "Some found missing loved ones." "Most, however, did not." "And then, shattering the calm, came the sounds once more - the roar of engines overhead." "As US bombers began blasting the rubble to dust, American fighter planes zeroed in on the thousands of refugees at the park, along the river and in other open spaces." "Even zoo animals which had miraculously managed to survive the bombing raids, were strafed and slaughtered." "A weeping zoo keeper watched as an American pilot chased down and shot his last remaining giraffe." "Although the raid lasted only ten minutes, the Americans returned the next day, and the next, and the next, seemingly determined that not a single living thing should survive in Dresden." "One of the horrors for those who had survived the nightmare was recovery of the dead." "Initially, bodies were pitchforked onto trucks and wagons, and then take to shallow graves on the outskirts of Dresden." "It soon became clear that such a slow process could never handle the enormous amount of bodies, so huge grills were fashioned from girders in various parts of town and corpses were stacked on them like logs." "When the piles reached roughly ten feet high and thirty feet wide, flame throwers were used to ignite the mass." "One month after the massacre, the Dresden Chief of Police reported that over 200,000 bodies had been recovered from the ruins." "Later, the International Red Cross estimated that 275,000 had died in the raids." "Because of the incredible density of Dresden's population on the night of February 13th–14th, because thousands of victims were refugees with no records, and because many bodies either lay buried forever in the ruins or had simply" "melted like wax, other estimates, which place the death toll at 300,000 to 400,000 may well be closer to the mark." "More people died during the firebombing of Dresden than during the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." "RAF crewman:" "To just fly over it without opposition felt like murder." "I felt it was a cowardly war." "Working in tandem with the terror bombing of German cities was the "targets of opportunity"" "policy upon the countryside." "Under this order, anything moving in the Reich was fair game for Allied fighter planes." "Ships, trucks, cars, trains, ambulances, women shopping on bicycles, farmers in fields, animals in pastures, even children in school yards, were targets of Allied aircraft." "In a flagrant attempt to widen the war, American bombers even attacked Zurich, Basel, and other targets in neutral Switzerland." "Additionally, Winston Churchill made plans to saturate German cities with poison gas and kill those women and children yet alive amid the rubble." "When advisers pointed out that Adolf Hitler might reply in kind with his own stockpiles of chemical weapons, the murderous plan was shelved." "Meanwhile, the hell raining from the clouds mirrored an ongoing hell rising from the mud." "As Germans soon came to realize, the Allied powers sought not only the physical destruction of Germany, but the spiritual massacre of the nation as well." "THE RAPE OF GERMANY" "The evil swept in from the East." "There were constant rumors and hints about what might be expected should the Soviet Union overrun Germany." "Most Germans, however, remained hopeful." "Such notions of "Asiatic hordes", many felt, were merely the government's attempt to harden their will to resist." "Thus it was, that on the night of October 20th, 1944, as the village of Nemmersdorf and other communities nearest the front slept in imagined security, the unthinkable occurred." "After punching a hole through the German line, the Red Army suddenly burst into the Reich and swarmed over the countryside." "After several days of desperate fighting the German Wehrmacht regrouped, launched a furious counterattack, and eventually drove the Red Army across the border." "What German troops soon found was staggering." "It was at Nemmersdorf where stunned soldiers first viewed hell on earth." "Along the roads, fleeing refugees had been overtaken by the communists; the people were pulled from their carts, raped, then murdered on the spot." "A witness:" "In the farmyard further down the road stood a cart, to which four naked women were nailed through their hands in a cruciform position." "Beyond stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture." "In the dwellings we found a total of seventy - two women, including children, and one old man, 74, all dead, all murdered in a bestial manner, except only a few who had bullet holes in their necks." "Some babies had their heads bashed in." "In one room we found a woman, 84 years old, sitting on a sofa, half of whose head had been sheared off with an ax or a spade." "Old men who had tried to protect their wives, daughters and granddaughters, were themselves knocked down, then sawed in half." "Fifty French POWs and Polish workers who had instinctively stepped in to protect the people were castrated and killed." "Staggered by the enormity of the crime, German authorities requested that neutral observers from Spain, Sweden and Switzerland view the sickening carnage close up." "However, when the visitors filed their reports and word finally reached the outside world, there was only silence." "By the winter of 1944, the vicious propaganda war waged against Germany had been won." "By that late stage of the conflict, the war of words had reached such evil extremes that few individuals beyond the Reich's borders were concerned about brained German babies or crucified German women." "By the final months of the war, the enemy to be destroyed was not merely Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party or even the soldiers in the field." "By the final months of the war, the aim of the approaching Allies was nothing less than the utter extinction of the German nation - every man, every woman, every child." "Fueling the flames of hate was the Jewish propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg." "One of the most influential men in the Soviet Union, Ehrenburg made sure his message of evil reached every soldier in the Red Army by ordering that leaflets be dropped from airplanes onto the front lines." "Ehrenburg's directive:" "Kill them all, men, old men, children and the women, after you have amused yourself with them!" "Kill." "Nothing in Germany is guiltless, neither the living nor the yet unborn." "Break the racial pride of the German woman." "Take her as your legitimate booty." "Kill, you brave soldiers of the victorious Soviet Army." "Soon, as the Red Army forced the Wehrmacht back in the east, millions of German civilians suffered the same ghastly fate as the victims of Nemmesdorf." "Although first encounters with Soviet shock troops were truly traumatic, it was the second wave of soldiers who delivered hell on earth." "In numerous instances, before troops pushed on they turned to the helpless civilians and warned:" "The Mongols are coming." "Very bad men." "You go quick." "Go quick." "Terrified by the news, many Germans did attempt to flee." "Most, however, found themselves trapped." "Other than destroy liquor and hide young girls, most could only watch the clock and pray that their worst fears were unfounded." "After a wait of sometimes days, but normally hours, the dreaded second wave arrived." "Composed largely of Mongols and other Asians, as well as convicts, these men who formed the second wave of troops were regarded, even by their own comrades, as utterly merciless." "Leading this group were the Communist commissars, the fanatical political officers composed almost exclusively of Jews." "These hate- filled individuals acted as the more-than- willing orchestrators of the horrors that befell the German people." "Of all the methods used to express its hatred, the Red Army said it best with rape." "Rape Survivor:" "And when the first Russians came, the combat troops, they came in and wanted to see everything, asked about weapons, and soldiers, looked at everything closely, didn't find anything, and were very friendly, and just left." "Then the next lot arrived." "The next one took me outside straight away." "My mother wanted to throw herself in front of me, but she was pushed back." "And then they took me upstairs, and as I tried to defend myself, he showed me his gun." "And then when I came back down, I was.. well, shocked, but I was just happy that I was still alive." "They said, "Woman, Come!" They said it in German," ""Frau kommen!" in German." "We were the prize." "It was always like that." "From eight to eighty years old, healthy or ill, indoors or out, in fields, on sidewalks, against walls, the defilement, torture, and murder of German women continued unabated." "Merely because a female had been raped once was also no guarantee she would not be assaulted again... and again... and again." "A victim:" "The Russians were coming and going the whole time and they kept eyeing us greedily." "The nights were dreadful because we were never safe for a moment." "The women were raped, not once or twice but ten, twenty, thirty and a hundred times, and it was all the same to the Russians whether they raped mere children or old women." "The youngest victim in the row houses where we lived was ten years of age and the oldest one was over seventy." "The women of Germany not only had to endure this onslaught of rape, torture, and murder, but also, the humiliation of having it witnessed by friends and family." "A witness:" "These atrocities were not committed secretly or in hidden corners but in public, in churches, on the streets, and on the squares." "Mothers were raped in the presence of their children, girls were raped in front of their brothers." "When even violated corpses could no longer be of use, sticks, iron bars and telephone receivers were commonly rammed into their vaginas." "Jewish commissars had a special desire to defile the churches of Germany." "Soon after the fall of Danzig, hundreds of desperate females pleaded with an officer for protection." "The Soviet pointed to a Catholic cathedral." "After the women were safely inside, the officer yelled to his men, pointed to the church, and with bells ringing and organ pipes roaring the horror continued all night." "Some women and girls inside, some as young as 8 years old, were raped more than thirty times." "Little boys who tried to shield their mothers were shot." "When Soviet soldiers captured the city of Neustettin in February 1945, they discovered several large camps of the Women's Reich Labor Service, an organization composed mostly of girls who worked on various projects from nursing to street repair." "After re-capturing the area, the German soldiers were horrified by what had happened to the 2,500 females." "German soldier:" "We had never seen anything like it - utterly, unbelievably monstrous!" "Naked, dead women lay in many of the rooms." "Swastikas had been cut into their abdomens, in some the intestines bulged out, breasts were cut up, faces beaten to a pulp and swollen puffy." "Others had been tied to the furniture by their hands and feet, and massacred." "A broomstick protruded from the vagina of one, a besom from that of another." "The mothers had to witness how their ten and twelve-year-old daughters were raped by some 20 men;" "the daughters in turn saw their mothers being raped, even their grandmothers." "Women who tried to resist were brutally tortured to death." "There was no mercy." "The women we liberated were in a state almost impossible to describe." "Their faces had a confused, vacant look." "Some were beyond speaking to, ran up and down and moaned the same sentences over and over again." "Having seen the consequences of these bestial atrocities, we were terribly agitated and determined to fight." "We knew the war was past winning; but it was our obligation and sacred duty to fight to the very last bullet." "While its men fought furiously in the East, Germany was also trying to stave off invasion from the West." "Unfortunately, the invaders on this front often did not behave any better than their Soviet Allies; battlefield newsmen to the west simply did not report the crimes." "As tens of thousands of German rape victims could attest, there was no safety among the" "American and British." "Millions massacred, millions raped, millions already enslaved - but this was only the beginning of Germany's nightmare." "THE BALTIC MASSACRE" "With the German army in headlong retreat, hordes of Red soldiers swarmed into" "Greater Germany during the last winter of the war." "As word of the Soviet breakthrough spread, millions of Germans hastily packed and fled into the freezing weather." "Most merely packed farm carts, hitched horses or cows, and set off as fast as their animals would take them." "Already bitterly cold, several days after the "treks" began the temperature plunged." "As a result, little children and infants dropped by the thousands." "With the earth hard as rock, tiny holes dug in the snowbanks served as graves." "A young mother:" "It was so terribly cold, and the wind was like ice... the snow was falling and nothing warm to eat, no milk and nothing." "I tried to give Gabi the breast, behind a house, but she didn't take it because everything was so cold." "Many women tried that, and some froze their breasts." "Given the chaotic conditions, and with freezing refugees clogging the way, many treks were quickly overhauled by the Russians." "Some Soviet tanks crashed straight through the columns, squashing all in their path." "After heavy traffic, the victims - men, women, children, animals, all - were pressed together as flat as cardboard." "Those terrified survivors who had scattered to the icy countryside fell easy prey." "As always, for females the living death soon began." "For millions of Germans cut off on the Baltic coast, only one avenue of escape remained - the sea." "As isolated Wehrmacht units desperately defended their shrinking Baltic beach-heads, millions of refugees poured into the coastal enclaves." "With their backs literally to the sea, only the slow and treacherous evacuation by boat was an option." "Consequently, at Memel, Konigsberg," "Danzig, and other besieged cauldrons, the situation was appalling." "Juergen Thorwald:" "Every alley, every street was packed with their vehicles." "People were waiting in every harbor shed, in every wind - sheltered corner." "Among them stood their beasts, bleating, snorting, lowing." "The pregnant women giving birth somewhere in a corner, on the ground, in a barracks." "Some of them had been raped on their flight, and now they were trembling for fear they would give birth to a monster." "The strangely pale faces of girls going up and down the streets asking for a doctor." "The wounded and the sick, in constant fear they would be left behind, concealing weapons under their blankets to force someone to take them along, or to end their own lives if the Russians came." "The orphans who had been saved from their asylum somewhere at the last moment and tossed onto carts with nothing around them but a blanket, and who were now lying on the floors with frozen limbs." "The old people who had lain down in some doorway at night, and had not awakened." "And the wild-eyed insane ones who rushed from house to house, from wagon to wagon, crying for their mothers or their children." "Over it all the gray sky, snow, frost, and thaw.. and thaw and frost and snow, and the chill, killing wet." "When a long-sought vessel finally tied up and lowered the walkways, pandemonium erupted on the docks." "Because of an order granting priority to those with children, the latter became more valuable than gold." "Once adults had boarded, they often tossed infants to relatives or friends below in hopes they might also board." "Many babies died, of course, either falling into the freezing water or smashing onto the docks below." "Nearby, terribly wounded soldiers quietly awaited their turn to board." "For those who sailed from the besieged ports, their prayers appeared answered;" "for those left standing behind, their doom seemed sealed." "Many men, "in a surge of madness," shot themselves." "Crazed mothers, with starvation gnawing and the red terror looming, found cyanide and poisoned their children, then themselves." "Old people merely crawled into snow banks, fell asleep, and never awoke." "Unfortunately, for thousands of refugees, there was no escaping the nightmare, even at sea." "While many refugee ships successfully traversed the treacherous Baltic, Allied bombers were often the first to greet them when they docked." "At Swinemunde in northern Germany, the arrival of a freighter loaded with evacuees coincided almost exactly with an Allied air raid." "Hardly had the ship docked when a direct hit sent it to the bottom, taking 2,000 screaming passengers with it." "On January 30, 1945, over 60,000 refugees crowded the docks of Gotenhafen, desperately trying to board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise liner designed to accommodate two thousand passengers and crew." "By the time the beautiful white ship cast off, she had taken on as many as six to eight thousand refugees." "As the Gustloff backed away from the port, her path was blocked by smaller craft all jammed with passengers begging to come aboard." "Nets were lowered, and an additional two thousand refugees scrambled up." "Strained far beyond its limits, the tightly-sealed ship filled with a hot, nauseating stench of urine, excrement, and vomit." "The groans of severely wounded soldiers and the screams of separated families added to the ghastly horror." "But the worst was yet to come." "At approximately 9 p.m., three heavy thuds rocked the Gustloff." "Panic-stricken, thousands below deck stampeded through the narrow passageways, crushing and clawing in a mad attempt to reach safety." "Most lifeboats were frozen solid and even those that could be freed were mishandled in the panic, spilling their screaming occupants into the icy black sea." "Within a few minutes, those in the water were dead." "While thousands of freezing people pressed along the decks, loud speakers blared words of comfort, assuring passengers that the ship would not sink and help was on the way." "Convinced that the sealed bulkheads had held and that indeed, the ship would remain afloat, many refugees fled indoors once more to escape the razor sharp winds and –20 degree (-29 C) temperature." "The respite proved brief, however." "At ten o'clock a heavy tremor ripped the Gustloff as the bulkheads broke and the sea rushed in." "Within seconds, the big ship began to roll on its side, then plunged beneath the waves." "When rescue ships later reached the scene, they pulled from the icy waters a mere nine hundred survivors." "All else - roughly seven to nine thousand men, women and children - were lost." "As many more incidents would prove, the sinking of the Gustloff was no mistake." "In a deliberate attempt to kill as many refugees as possible, Soviet submarines struck again and again at the slow-moving ships." "Soon after midnight on February 10th, an old luxury liner, the General Stueben, was plowing through the icy, black Baltic." "Heavily weighed down with refugees and wounded soldiers, the ship was in the midst of its second such evacuation in less than a fortnight." "Just before one a.m., two torpedoes slammed into the ship's side." "As the Stueben's stern rose high out of the water, hundreds leaped overboard, including some who were torn to pieces by the still-turning propellers." "Within seven minutes, the ship plunged beneath the waves, swiftly silencing a final mass scream that seemed to arise from a single voice." "Of the 3,500 passengers aboard, only a few hundred survived." "Goodrich:" "Like some great wild animal, the Red Army moved closer to the heart of Germany." "In countless German cities and towns the pattern repeated itself." "The bloody nightmare which enveloped the Baltic coast was typical of that which transpired wherever the Soviets occupied German soil." "In many places" " Silesia, Prussia, Pomerania, in the German communities of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Poland, Hungary - a similar horror had been in progress for weeks." "There, the ghastly atrocities actually increased, as if Red soldiers were in a mad race with one another to see who could destroy, murder and, above all, who could rape the most." "Meanwhile, the American and British forces punched through the German lines in the West." "Unlike the East Front, however, German soldiers were well aware that the foes they faced in the west were signatories of the Geneva Convention." "Under this agreement, captured or surrendering German soldiers were protected by law." "With the Red Army roaring across Germany from the east, many Germans secretly hoped that the Americans might occupy what remained of the Reich before the communists did." "It was no secret that Germans, high and low, considered the Americans and British the lesser of two evils." "Unfortunately, they were not always right." "DEFEAT IN THE WEST" "In the Spring of 1945, as Berliners prepared to defend the capital from the encircling Soviet army," "Germans to the west also fought to halt the Allied tide." "Unlike the howling savagery to the east, fraught with nightmarish ferocity, defeat in the west came methodically, relentlessly and, judged by the standards of the east, almost silently." "As the Western front crept closer, civilians anxiously awaited the Allied arrival." "Unlike the terrified trekkers to the east, relatively few Germans in the west abandoned their homes." "The racial and cultural ties with the enemy, particularly the Americans, were simply too strong to arouse the same terror as the Soviets did." "Far from fleeing the advancing Allies, many civilians actually ran to greet them." "Little did the Germans realize that because of a decade of Jewish propaganda, the Americans were perhaps even more hate - filled than the Soviets." "Unlike the wild and almost unimaginable Red Army, US military commanders might have easily prevented crimes committed against helpless civilians had they only willed it." "In most cases, however, they did not." "Leading the charge against the German people was General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man whose hatred of all things German was well known." "In much the same vein as Stalin and Roosevelt," "Eisenhower advocated the outright massacre of German army officers, Nazi Party members and others." "In all, according to the Allied commander, at least 100,000 German leaders should be "exterminated."" "Not surprisingly, such sentiment from above quickly filtered down. "The only good German is a dead German," became the pervasive sentiment." ""Take no prisoners," was the tacit understanding." "By the tens of thousands, captured or surrendering Germans were simply slaughtered on the spot." "As American forces swept toward Munich in late April, 1945, most German guards at the concentration camp near Dachau fled." "Despite signs at the gate warning, "No entrance - typhus epidemic," several hundred German soldiers were ordered to the prison to maintain order and arrange the transfer of over 30,000 prisoners to the Allies." "When the Americans reached Dachau the following day, they were horrified by what they saw." "Outside the prison sat rail cars full of diseased and starved corpses." "Inside the camp, a room piled high with naked and emaciated bodies was also discovered." "Unhinged by the nightmare, certain that Dachau was proof of the atrocities they had heard so much about in America, officers turned their enraged troops loose on the now disarmed German soldiers." "A US soldier:" "The men were deliberately wounding guards." "A lot of guards were shot in the legs so they couldn't move." "They were then turned over to the inmates." "One was beheaded with a bayonet." "Others were ripped apart limb by limb." "While the tortures were in progress, a lieutenant forced over 300 captive Germans up against a wall, planted two machine-guns, then ordered his men to open fire." "Those still alive when the fusillade ended were forced to stand amid the carnage while the machine-gunners reloaded." "In all, over five hundred helpless German soldiers were slaughtered in cold blood." "As a final touch, the citizens of Dachau were forced to bury the thousands of corpses in the camp, thereby assuring the death of many more from disease." "Few Americans noticed, because few cared, but conditions in German cities and towns were not much better than that at Dachau." "Because of the round-the-clock American and British air attacks week after week, very little food and almost no medicine was arriving anywhere in Germany." "Virtually none reached the numerous concentration camps, where, during the last days, disease and starvation swept away the inmates by the thousands." "The incident at Dachau was merely one of many massacres committed by US troops." "US Soldier:" "We had been held up at a little town." "We were supposed to just walk through it, and the Germans stopped us dead." "We just couldn't crack it." "Eventually artillery came in, sort of leveled the houses." "They finally surrendered, and they came out, and sort of lined up." "Per usual, no one knew what was going on." "We had a new battalion commander, just graduated from West Point, and he lined them up, and said, "I want you to shoot them."" "And I was horrified." "Quite a few of us were horrified." "And I went to him and told him, you know, that this was against all international law, and humanity." "My good buddy, who I'd spent so much time with, grabbed me, and said "This nut will shoot you." "You better knock this off." And he got enough guys, and they shot these.. about twenty five prisoners." "It was a terrible thing to see, and I talked to a lot of my buddies who had shot these guys, and they were horrified too." "Unaware of the deep hatred the Allies harbored for them, when proud SS units surrendered, they naively assumed that they would be accorded respect as the unsurpassed fighters that they had proven to be." "As soon as they were disarmed, most were slaughtered where they stood." "For those members of the German military lucky enough to survive capture, death often awaited behind the lines, where thousands more perished." "With General Eisenhower turning a blind eye to the Geneva Convention, only the threat of retaliation against Allied POWs still held in Germany prevented a massacre of prodigious proportions." "Soon after US combat soldiers moved out of a community and the rear echelon troops moved in, the reality of occupation became clear to the German citizens." "The second wave of soldiers, wanting to experience a bit of war on their own, took out their aggression on the helpless Germans by looting, raping, killing, and destroying." "In many towns, the invaders unlocked jails, prisons and concentration camps and invited the inmates to join in the revelry." "Amy Schrott:" "They just opened up the camps and let them go." "The Russians and Poles were looting the houses and killing the shopkeepers." "Then they began raping the girls." "Similar mayhem engulfed most towns in western Germany as Americans and British pushed onward." "US sergeant:" "Our own Army and the British Army have done their share of looting and raping." "We too are considered an army of rapists." "Although brutal rapes persisted against defenseless females, the Allied troops quickly discovered that hunger was a powerful incentive to sexual surrender." "Although sex could be bought for a bit of food, a cigarette or a bar of soap, some victors preferred to take what they wanted, whenever and wherever they pleased." "American soldier:" "Hunger made German women more 'available,' but despite this, rape was prevalent and often accompanied by additional violence." "In particular I remember an eighteen-year old woman who had the side of her face smashed with a rifle butt and was then raped by two GIs" "Even the French complained that the rapes, looting and drunken destructiveness on the part of our troops was excessive." "Despite the numerous atrocities committed on the western front, such savagery never became officially sanctioned." "Considering the blood-thirsty propaganda from the primarily" "Jewish-owned media, as well as the active incitement of their political and military leaders, the average British and American soldier comported himself amazingly well, and certainly far, far better than his Soviet counterpart." "Although the Allies in the West might have easily pushed on to Berlin, they were ordered to halt just short of their goal." "As a token of their great love and gratitude, Roosevelt and Churchill had already awarded the German capital to Stalin as a prize." "After days of hopeless fighting in which little boys fought, and all too often died, like men" "Berlin was finally overwhelmed on May 2nd." "And with the suicide of Adolf Hitler, the war effectively ended." "Now that there was virtually no chance for reprisals against" "Americans held in German POW camps, Eisenhower's pathological hatred of Germans was given free rein." "DEATH CAMPS" "With the final capitulation in May, 1945, the supreme allied commander found himself in control of over five million ragged, weary, but living, enemy soldiers." "Since Eisenhower could not kill more armed Germans in war, the American desk general decided to kill disarmed Germans in peace." "Because the Geneva Convention guaranteed POWs the same food, shelter and medical attention as their captors, Eisenhower simply circumvented the treaty by creating his own category for prisoners." "Under this reclassification, German soldiers were no longer considered POWs, but" "defs" " Disarmed Enemy Forces." "With this sleight-of-hand, and in direct violation of the Geneva" "Convention, Eisenhower could now deal in secret with those in his power, free from the prying eyes of the outside world." "Even before the war's end, thousands of German POWs had died in American captivity from starvation, neglect, and, in many cases, outright murder." "With the German surrender and the threat of retaliation against Allied POWs entirely erased, deaths in the American concentration camps accelerated dramatically." "While tens of thousands died of starvation and thirst, hundreds of thousands more perished from overcrowding and disease." "German prisoner:" "It's incomprehensible to me how we could stand for many, many days without sitting, without lying down, just standing there, totally soaked." "During the day we marched around, huddled together to try to warm each other a bit." "The latrines were just logs flung over ditches next to the barbed wire fences." "To sleep, all we could do was to dig out a hole in the ground with our hands, then cling together in the hole." "Because of illness, the men had to defecate on the ground." "Soon, many of us were too weak to take off our trousers first." "So our clothing was infected, and so was the mud where we had to walk and sit and lie down." "There was no water at all at first, except the rain." "More than half the days we had no food at all." "On the rest, we got a little K ration." "I could see from the package that they were giving us one tenth of the rations that they issued to their own men." "I complained to the American camp commander that he was breaking the Geneva Convention, but he just said, "Forget the Convention." "You haven't any rights."" "Within a few days, some of the men who had gone healthy into the camps were dead." "I saw our men dragging many dead bodies to the gate of the camp, where they were thrown loose on top of each other onto trucks, which took them away." "As if their plight were not already hideous enough, prisoners occasionally became the targets of drunken guards who sprayed the camps with machine-gun fire." "At one compound, amused guards formed lines and beat prisoners with clubs and sticks as they ran the gauntlet for their paltry rations." "At another camp of 5,200 men, ten to thirty bodies were hauled away every day." "Prisoners who did not succumb to hunger or disease often died of thirst." "Many men were forced to drink their own urine even though streams ran a few feet from the barbed wire." "There was no lack of food or shelter among the victorious Allies." "Actually, American supply depots were bursting at the seams." "Instead of allowing even a trickle of this bounty to reach the compounds, the starvation diet was further reduced." "Within full view of some camps, Americans would sadistically burn food that they could not eat themselves." "Civilians from nearby villages and towns, themselves starving, were prevented at gunpoint from passing their own meager fare through the fence to prisoners." "Horrified by the silent, secret massacre, the International Red Cross, which had over 100,000 tons of food stored in Switzerland, tried to intercede." "When two trains filled with supplies reached the camps, however, they were turned back by American officers." "Many people found no justification whatsoever in the massacre of helpless prisoners, especially since the German government had lived up to the Geneva Convention, as one American put it," ""to a tee."" "The Red Cross reported that ninety-nine percent of American prisoners of war in Germany have survived and were on their way home." "Nevertheless, Eisenhower's murderous program continued apace." "Some upright generals, such as General George Patton, opposed these murderous measures, but Eisenhower quickly overruled them." "While continuing to deny the Red Cross and other relief agencies access to the camps," "Eisenhower stressed among his camp commanders the need for secrecy." "To prevent the gruesome details from reaching the outside world, and sidetrack those that did, counter-rumors were circulated stating that, far from mistreating and murdering prisoners, camp commanders were actually turning back released Germans who tried to slip back in for food and shelter." "Unlike their capitalist counterparts, the Soviet communists made little effort to hide their crimes." "Hundreds of thousands of Germans toiled in the forests and mines of Siberia." "The captives were slaves pure and simple and no attempt was made to disguise the fact." "For the enslaved Germans, male and female, the odds of surviving the Soviet gulags were even worse than escaping the American death camps." "A trip to Siberia was tantamount to a death sentence." "What little food the slaves received was intended merely to maintain their strength until they were worked to death." "Much the same might be said of the 600,000" "German slaves held by the French." "Ultimately, no fewer than 800,000 German prisoners died in the American and French death camps." "Indeed, Recent estimates place the death toll at upwards of 1.5 million." "And thus, in "peace,"" "did Eisenhower murder at least ten times the number of German soldiers than were killed on the whole Western Front during the whole of the war." "With the once mighty Wehrmacht now disarmed and enslaved, and with their leaders either dead or awaiting trial for war crimes, the old men, women and children who remained in the dismembered Reich now found themselves utterly at the mercy of the victors." "Unfortunately, never in the history of the world was mercy in shorter supply." "THE PURGE" "Soon after their victory in Europe, the Allied purge of Nazi Party members commenced." "In theory, "de-Nazification" was a simple transplanting of Party officials with those of democratic, socialist or communist underpinnings." "In practice, the purge became little more than a cloak for rape, torture and death." "All adult Germans were compelled to register at the nearest Allied headquarters and complete a lengthy questionnaire on past activities." "While many nervous citizens were detained then and there, most returned home, convinced that the terrible ordeal was over." "For millions, however, the trial had just begun." "Few German adults, Nazi or not, escaped the dreaded knock on the door." "Many people were arrested multiple times, including Leni Riefenstahl, a talented young woman who was perhaps the world's most artistic film-maker." "Because her epic documentaries " "Triumph of the Will and Olympia - seemed to glorify not only Germany, but National Socialism, and because of her close relationship with an admiring Adolf Hitler, Leni was of great interest to the Allies." "Leni Riefenstahl:" "Neither my husband nor my mother nor any of my three assistants had ever joined the Nazi Party, nor had any of us been politically active." "No charges had ever been filed against us, yet we were at the mercy of the Allies and had no legal protection of any kind." "As Leni and others quickly discovered, the "softening up" process began soon after arrival at an Allied prison." "Brutally beaten, raped repeatedly, crammed into dark, overheated cells, victims nervously awaited their "interrogations"." "A German man:" "The purpose of these interrogations is not to worm out of the people what they knew, which would be uninteresting anyway, but to extort from them special statements." "The methods resorted to are extremely primitive;" "people are beaten up until they confess to having been members of the Nazi Party." "The authorities simply assume that, basically, everybody has belonged to the Party." "Many people die during and after these interrogations, while others, who admit at once their party membership, are treated more leniently." "Generally, after enduring blackened eyes, broken bones, rape, electric shock to breasts, or, in the case of men, smashed testicles, only those who took their own lives or died during torture failed to sign confessions." "Since most intelligence officers accompanying US and British forces were Jewish refugees who had fled Germany in the 1930s, their knowledge of the language and culture was superb." "With old scores to settle, the presence of these men insured that there would be no mercy shown to Nazis - or any German, for that matter." "A young German woman:" "Both officers who took our testimony were former German Jews." "One kicked me in the back and the other hit me." "The terrible thing was, the German men had to watch." "That was a horrible, horrible experience." "That must have been terrible for them." "When I went outside, several of them stood there with tears running down their cheeks." "What could they have done?" "They could do nothing." "During the Nazi war crimes trial at Nuremburg, almost any method that would obtain a "confession" was employed." "Understandably, after several such sessions even the strongest submitted and signed papers incriminating themselves and others." "In addition to testimony given under torture, those who might have spoken in defense of the accused were threatened with torture and death themselves." "Moreover, hired "witnesses" were paid by the Americans to parrot the prosecution's charges." "Horrific as de-Nazification was in the British, French and, especially, the American Zones, it was nothing compared to what took place in Poland, behind Soviet lines." "In hundreds of concentration camps sponsored by something called the "Office of State Security,"" "thousands of Germans - male and female, old and young, high and low, Nazi and non–Nazi - were rounded up and imprisoned." "Staffed and run by Jews, with help from the Poles, Czechs, Russians, and other former concentration camp inmates, the prisons were little better than vast torture chambers where dying was a thing to be prolonged, not hastened." "While those with blond hair, blue eyes and handsome features were first to go, anyone who spoke German would do." "For these vengeful camp operators, no torture, no sadism, no depravity, no evil, seemed too monstrous to inflict on those now in their power." "Some Germans were forced to crawl naked on all fours and eat their own excrement as well as that of others." "Many were drowned in open latrines." "Hundreds were herded into buildings and burned to death or sealed in caskets and buried alive." "Near Lamsdorf, German women were forced to disinter bodies from a Polish burial site, then kiss and "make love" to the putrid, rotting corpses." "Not surprisingly, the mortality rate at the concentration camps was staggering and of those rare individuals who did leave with their lives, few could any longer be called human." "Meanwhile, as the judicial charade was in progress behind prison walls, tortures of another kind stalked the "liberated" German people as the Allied victors enacted their plan to divide, loot, and utterly destroy conquered Germany." "In late 1944, the so-called "Morgenthau Plan" was endorsed by President Roosevelt, making the Jewish prewar demand for German extermination official." "Named for Roosevelt's" "Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, but actually conceived by the secretary's top aide, Harry Dexter White - both of whom were Jewish - the program called for the complete destruction of Germany after victory had been won." "In addition to the dismantling or destruction of heavy industry and the permanent closure of mines, the Morgenthau Plan called for a reduction of the Reich's land area by one half." "As many knew, this act guaranteed that roughly two thirds of the German population, or fifty million people, would soon die of starvation." "With the remnant of the population reduced to subsistence farming, and with the shrunken nation totally at the mercy of hostile European neighbors, it was estimated that within two generations Germany would cease to exist." "When Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, met at Potsdam with Stalin and the new British prime minister, Clement Attlee, in July 1945, most of the teeth in Morgenthau's murderous scheme remained on the table." "With the signature of the Big Three, the plan went into effect." "Stalin's methodical looting in the Russian Occupation Zone became prodigious." "Steel mills, grain mills, lumber mills, sugar and oil refineries, chemical plants, optical works, shoe factories, and other heavy industries were taken apart down to the last nut and bolt and sent east to the Soviet Union where they were reassembled." "Those factories allowed to remain in Germany were to operate solely for the benefit of Russia." "Electric and steam locomotives, their rolling stock, and even the tracks they ran on were likewise sent east." "Unlike its primitive Soviet ally, the United States had no need for German plants and factories." "Nevertheless, the Americans were far and away the most zealous at destroying Germany's ability to recover." "While the US may have spurned German industry, they had a great interest in the Reich's hoard of treasure." "Billions of dollars in gold, silver and currency, as well as priceless paintings, sculptures and other art works were plucked from their hiding places in caves, tunnels and salt mines and shipped across the Atlantic." "Additionally, and of far greater damage to Germany's future, was the "mental dismantling" of the Reich." "Tons of secret documents revealing Germany's tremendous organizational talent in business and industry were simply stolen." "Hundreds of the greatest scientists in the world were likewise "compelled"" "to immigrate by the victors." "One man opposed to the vengeance-minded program was George Patton." "Patton:" "Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau of a Semitic revenge against all Germans is still working." "I can't see how Americans can sink so low." "During the first postwar years Germany was little better than a vast concentration camp." "Coinciding with the ruthless Allied program of denazification and "reeducation," was the American and British policy of non - fraternization, segregating the victors from the vanquished, in an effort to further degrade and demonize Germans and crush what little pride and respect" "One year after war's end, the former Reich still had urban-dwellers clinging precariously to their caves and cracks for shelter." "In Berlin alone, an estimated 50,000 orphans struggled to survive." "British witness:" "Some of them, one-eyed or one-legged veterans of seven or so, many so deranged by the bombing and the Russian attack that they screamed at the sight of any uniform, even a Salvation Army one." "While occupation troops dined on five-course meals complete with fried sole, Dutch steak and ice cream, thousands of starving children felt fortunate if a potato peel or crust of moldy bread was unearthed." "Children who could not live by their wits, died." "Those who didn't starve or freeze, were crushed by the walls of their caves or torn to shreds by unexploded bombs which lay scattered across Germany by the ton." "On their own, orphans aged fast, and little girls aged fastest of all." "Like their older sisters, the children soon discovered that selling themselves could stave off starvation." "A dreaded concern - not only for those who were selling themselves, but for the millions of rape victims - was unwanted pregnancy." "Thousands who were in fact pregnant sought and found abortions." "Thousands more lived in dreadful suspense, their lives utterly shattered in every way imaginable." "At length, Allied soldiers, reporters, and others began to recoil at the ruthless reign of terror transpiring in Germany." "Historian Ralph Keeling:" "While the Germans around them starve, wear rags, and live in hovels, the American aristocrats live in often unaccustomed ease and luxury." "They live in the finest houses from which they drove the Germans; they swagger about in fine liveries and gorge themselves on diets three times as great as they allow the Germans." "When we tell the Germans their low rations are necessary because food is so short, they naturally either think we are lying to them or regard us as inhuman for taking the lion's share of the short supplies while they and their children starve." "Even as the chorus of critics over the sadistic treatment of Germany grew, a nightmare of almost unbelievable proportions was developing behind the Iron Curtain." "ETHNIC CLEANSING" "Winston Churchill:" "Never mind the five or more million Germans." "Stalin will see to them." "With a wave of the hand and a puff of his cigar the British Prime Minister thus condoned one of the greatest massacres in human history." "With an understanding reached at Yalta, then signed into law at Potsdam, the Soviet Union swallowed vast chunks of German and Polish territory in the east." "In return, Poland itself devoured large tracts of the former Reich in the west, including much of Prussia, Pomerania and the extremely rich, industrialized province of Silesia." "Despite solemn reassurances by the Allied leaders that the mass expulsions would be carried out in an "orderly and humane" manner, shattering glass and splintering doors were usually the first sounds a victim heard, soon followed by angry shouts to clear the" "home in thirty, ten, even five minutes." "Thus, by tens and twenties, by hundreds and thousands, homeless Germans now began trudging west with no clear goal in mind." "Except for those able-bodied individuals held as slaves and young girls retained for sex, roughly eleven million trekkers took to the roads." "Thus began the greatest death march in history." "A witness:" "As they left town in an endless procession, Polish soldiers fell upon them, beating and flogging them in a blind rage." "Robbed of all they possessed and literally stripped of the last of their belongings, these poor creatures trudged along in the wind and the rain, with no roof or shelter over their heads, not knowing where they would" "find a new abode." "Of the roughly eleven million victims hurled from their homes in eastern Germany, an estimated two million, mostly women and children, perished." "Equally as horrifying, though less well known, were the nearly one million Germans who died during similar expulsions in Czechoslovakia," "Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia." "Additionally, an estimated four million more ethnic Germans were sent east to the Soviet Union where the odds of surviving as slaves were worse than as refugees." "Austin J. App:" "To slice three or four ancient provinces from a country, then loot and plunder nine million people of their houses, farms, cattle, furniture, and even clothing, and then expel them "from the land they have inhabited for 700 years" with no distinction" "between the innocent and the guilty, to drive them like unwanted beasts on foot to far-off provinces, unprotected, shelterless, and starving is an atrocity so vast that history records none vaster." "While Western leaders such as Winston Churchill later feigned surprise at the tragedy they had wrought in eastern Germany, little was said about the deliberate starvation of the rest of the Reich, and utter silence prevailed concerning the Allied torture chambers in" "Germany, the on-the-spot massacre of Nazi Party members and SS troops, the death camps run by Eisenhower, or the hellish Jewish torture pens in Poland." "Taken as a whole, it is a certainty that far more Germans died during the first two years of "peace" than died during the previous six years of war." "CONCLUSION" "Goodrich:" "World War Two was the world's worst war." "World War Two was the world's worst war because of the evil that was unleashed on millions of helpless men, women and children;" "the Allied war waged against Germany, both during and after the war, were evils so vicious and so depraved that truly, words have not yet been invented to describe them." "While one might estimate the incredible loss of life during and after World War II, it s almost impossible to calculate the physical and psychological suffering caused by the rape, torture and degradation of the German nation." "Unlike their victims, the victors faced no post-war prison camps, no slavery, no torture, no starvation, no rapes, no trials for their numerous war crimes, and no vilification campaign that persists to this very day." "Quite the opposite." "For the victors, American generals became American presidents, British prime ministers became British Knights, Allied soldiers became the "Greatest Generation," and the winning side claimed complete and utter control over the history of World War Two." "Not surprisingly, in the winner's expert hands the evil crime that was World War Two was quickly transformed into the "Crusade in Europe," the "War to" "End Evil," and the "Good War." Year after year, decade after decade, a mountain of movies, tv shows, articles, and books are released with the sole intent of heaping crime and" "guilt on the heads of the victims." "At the same time the victors have elevated themselves to paragons of virtue by hiding the very real crimes they committed both during and after the war." "Anyone who can say that the actions of the Allies were justified hopefully has never witnessed a screaming child running like a living torch through a flaming street, never watched as a man drank his own urine to stay alive even as a river ran just beyond his" "prison fence, never heard the animal shrieks of the tortured as their genitals are mutilated or the groans of a bleeding woman begging for a bullet while the line awaiting its turn grows longer - hopefully these people have never seen such things, for only then can" "one understand how they might parrot over and over again the standard refrain," ""they got exactly what they deserved".." "and never lose a moment's sleep." "Still, if there is one central truth that was born of World War Two it is that clearly, there is no such thing as a "Good War." Those who say differently are either those who profit politically or financially from war, or those who have never witnessed war" "up close, in all its horror."