It should be mentioned that the Red Army did the same things in Poland and every other country it passed through on its way to Germany.

Rape is rape. Don't try to sugar coat it. Don't call it "assaulting".

My aunt was assaulted by Russian soldiers. One can't be sure if that's what did it, but she was mean-crazy her whole life. Aggressive and short tempered. Ruined my cousins' lives. She's still alive and still mean as ever. Some people come out of trauma with sympathy and some just build walls forever.

My parents were friends with a German lady. Her experience of what she saw and had to deal with was so traumatic that she swore that she would never bring children into this world.

War doesn't create monsters, it enables them.

This brutality can not be reduced to the Axis and Russian armies! I knew a German woman from the American sector after WW2, who was abused by 5 American soldiers for hours. I found it out, because working as a nurse, I asked about a date tattooed on the inside of her upper left tigh. She told me about the rape at her age of 16 and that the soldiers tattooed the date of the rape on her tigh, for that she should remember it her whole life. She did. She was mentally broken and never had a retationship beside to a teddybear from that time, that helped her to survive until she died at the age of 78. "Im amerikanisch besetzten Bayern kam es nach dem Einmarsch zu zahlreichen Fällen von sexueller Gewalt.[53] Die Historikerin Miriam Gebhardt verweist auf 540 Einmarschberichte der katholischen Pfarrer der Erzdiözese München-Freising. Diese Berichte belegen drastisch, dass 1945 in fast jedem Dorf Vergewaltigungen stattfanden." (The historian Miriam Gebhard tells, that in the American Sector Bavaria a lot of cases of sexual abuse by Americans happened, a study based on reports of catholic priests: In almost every bavarian villiage cases of abuse took place.) And I have a lot of former Yugoslavian female colleagues, that are still traumatized by what happened during the Balkan war... . This is an endless horrific story of mankind.

War crimes and atrocities dont mean much when you are the victors.

British soldiers could be just as bad, my father served in india duing ww2 and remembers soldiers kidnapping an Indian girl on a train station abusing her in a carriage as the journey commenced ,eventually when they grew tired of her they threw her off the train, the sounds of her screams haunted him long after the war.

If you read Hartmann's book "Blonde Knight of Germany" he writes about his squadron surrendering to the Red Army. With the pilots and the ground crew were their wives and families. Of course the Soviets helped themselves to some raping. The next day the Soviet area commander arrived and said that all assaults would stop and any further assaults would be punished. Of course they continued and the commander asked all of the assaulted women to step forward. They did and he lined up all of his men and asked the women to identify the culprits. They were pointed out, gallows were constructed and the offenders hanged in front of their fellows.

People in the comments trying to say this didn't happen... what the actual hell is wrong with you.

An elderly German friend of mine born in 1936 told me about what happened to his mother...1945 near the Oder River...Soviet soldiers took her away from her family for days...they did not kill her and brought her back to her children....but she endured the worst. When he talks about the war... and his mother... he sobs.

Horrid boomerang at the nation that adored their Furer and cared less about all the atrocities that Germans committed on occupied territories .. Horrific times

My biological grandma died early to cancer and my grandpa remarried. The woman he married, for me my grandma, was from prussia and had to flee from the russians. She was raped by russian soldiers and lost the ability to have children. She got children to care for from marrying my grandpa, but never her own - which gave her a really hard time dealing with the children of the other woman. With that kind of history/burden on her back the family-life was anything but happy. When my grandpa later fell in love with another woman and thought about a divorce she couldn t handle losing even more and threatened to kill herself.... I only learned of the rape and all the histrory after she died. She and my grandpa never got divorced. That experience had an impact on generations... (her, unable to have her own children and a trauma that was never dealt with. my mom and aunts with a new mom that wasn t up to the role and my grandpa unable to divorce because he was afraid she would kill herself) My grandpa fought under rommel in africa and was later captured by american soldiers. he himself was also from prussia. After beeing pow for years he came back to germany. Prussia and his home didn t exist any more and he learned from their former neighbours that his parents where killed by russian soldiers when he was pow. They had a farm in prussia. when his parents tried to flee they tried to take some animals with them- but they were too slow. some russian soldiers drove by in a car and just shot the civilians. the war had a deep inpact on him. he never talked much, he always hoped to get his home in prussia back, always had hidden weapons nearby and case someone wanted to rob him/take his stuff and till he died he ate eggs with the eggshells (because they have calcium) because thats what they did when they hungered back then.... war is always ugly and in ww2 lots of crimes happened. be it german soldiers killing civilians, the russians when they went after the prussians and east germans, the brits and us fire-bombing whole cities, targeting civilians or the us targeting civilians with nuclear bombs in Japan... Lets just hope history never repeats (*looks at the ukraine*)

If one is truly and honestly against war atrocities, one should be seriously against all wars.

My mother was born in 1935 & lived in South Eastern Germany. She told me that her parents (my Grandparents) were VERY worried about the Russians, and were worried for her safety. To the point that they even planed to take her (and her younger sister) to the Swiz border which was only 120 miles away. Thankfully the area was "liberated" by the Americans, so she was OK

An excellent video again, OP - this is the side of WW2 that nobody (except you) ever makes documentaries about and is another example of selective history!

"This gave them the courage to attack women further." A grotesque phrase. Courage and sexual assault in the same thought.

There is no worse mentality regarding war, than the idea that the innocent should suffer because other innocents also suffered. No understanding of the word.

Scary part there are people that believe all this never happened 😢

Glad more are learning about crimes committed by all sides, the rape of Berlin, the fire bombing of Dresden. Also see the red cross’s report on the concentration camps, after all they were the one independent group who had access to all of them to inspect for crime against humanity. If you want to go deeper as to why ww2 even started go back to the Russian revolution to understand ww1 then ww2, as napoleon once said “history is merely a fable made up by the victors” I guess he was right.

War makes men mad, it brings out the worst in them.

My mother in law suffered through terrible things in Germany during this time. She was German. She and her family were starved. She was raped repeatedly and was burned with cigarettes. The abuse was shocking.

You see on a daily basis what mad people do when it's peace, now imagine what happens in wartimes. Imagine all them "ex" convicts roaming around the streets no one to force the law upon them, no man's land. I'm telling you, there are no rules when it comes to life and death and all the evil war brings out of people.

Back in the nineties I used to talk regularly with an elderly German woman who was around 22 at the end of ww2. She hated the Americans with a passion, she told me of a young women taken to a pub, which was dry and raped. By 1948 german citizens and British soldiers were allowed to mix. She met a British soldier, married and moved to England. She said the British troops were alright.

I met an old German lady from Berlin in the Tyneside Irish club in 1998. She was 15 in 1945. She said the fighting was hellish, every female was raped. Many were multiple raped, many were murdered. Western Alies raped too. My Father new a German women living in Gateshead in 1980s. She had fled the Russians advance in East, to Western Germany, only to be raped by 4 Canadian soldiers at wars end. She was 16 at the time.

My german friend told me horror stories he heard.. mostly about women and little girls being killed while being raped, head smashed, strangled or throat cut..

Hanelore Kohl, the Bundeskanzlers' wife, was thirteen when the Russian Army overtook her fleeing refugee group. A horrific story, long held out of the media until Kohl was out of office. The poor woman was visibly marked by the incident.

We see the true nature of a country in the way they behave in warfare

Moral of the story: pragmatically, if war is headed your way and you’re a civilian, gtfo asap. What’s approaching could be significantly worse than losing most of your stuff.😢

Today, many considered the Soviet monument in Berlin as "The Tomb of the Unknown Rapists".

All inhumane acts in war should have been punished but were not. I hope that the atrocities committed by the Soviet in Germany and Eastern Europe will also be remembered as war crimes.

This is happening all over again in Ukraine, sixty years later... So Sad...

Soldiers all over the world commit these kinds of crimes against women. But is was terrible what happened there, nobody deserves it.

War is Hell and Hell takes many forms.

My great-grand mother witnessed Croat Ustashe solider killing 4 of her children with bayonet in front of her. Croat ustasha soldier even took her baby from her arms. She was a Serbian women. It happened near Prijedor city in 1942.

I'm not sure how inflicting cruelty on innocent German women makes any sense as an act of revenge. Doesn't that simply beget another act of revenge against yourself for doing precisely what you were fighting against in the first place? Absolute madness.

My neighbour growing up escaped Hungary as a young teenager. She remembered the Russians coming to her town. She was about eight. She said they hide in a swamp while a battle raged for several days. Her and her brothers began to return to their town, when German soldiers who were retreating, demanded her brother’s clothing at gun point. The German soldiers were terrified of the Russian women who were often placed at the front line because of their extraordinary barbarity. When they finally reached their town, she was taken to a loft with all the young girls and women to hide from the incoming Russians. Several older women 40+ in age sacrificed themselves to rape. She remembers hearing footsteps coming up the entryway to the loft. They would stop just before the hatch and retreat down the steps. She remembers being told later that the Russians would not lift the hatch to any loft because they knew that in Russia the women would be waiting with pitchforks to spear the Germans when they would lift a hatch. They stayed there for several days until the third or fourth wave of Russians advanced. She said these were the administrative waves that were less beastial and somewhat civilized. I remember her telling me about the terror she faced. I was young when she told me this story, but I always wondered if in most wars, the first wave of any advancing army is almost always largely made up of those released from prisons and lunatic asylums. I later found out that solders from my country🇨🇦 had a reputation of being very civilized when they liberated anyone in WW2. Many people from those countries immigrated to 🇨🇦 and shared these stories of decency. It makes me proud…Mrs. Ganz had a very difficult childhood. Her mother died when she was three and her father went away to fight. It was 1940. She was left with aunts who were religious zealots who treated her as a slave. She would have to kneel for hours saying the rosary for anything she didn’t do correctly. Her father was killed on one of the very last days of the war. She remained with those aunts until her brothers were able to establish themselves in Austria. She remembers meeting up with smugglers one night who met up with several other groups trying to leave Hungary. She was only fifteen when she had to crawl through minefields. She remembers several mines going off as she crawled under the wire. Her life here was good, but she was always treated as a servant by all members of her and her husbands families whenever they would visit. I loved Rosie ❤…She was funny when on the phone because she could speak five languages and would use them all in one phone call…I know this is a long post, but I owe it to her to tell her story. She died alone and forgotten by the member of her family she loved to most. He is a narcissistic fuck who has to live with the fact that he did nothing to help her if it was not going to be beneficial to him. He stole money and weaselled his way into being a co-executer of her substantial investments her husband left her…And I used to call him a friend…Her story needs to be told because that generation of people who have memories of the war are dying and their stories will die with them.

Being liberated by the Soviets would be an oxymoron to say the least!

It’s very heartbreaking but I think it’s almost worse to hear the animals who say these people deserved what they got. The majority of common Germans had no more guilt than an American today who votes democrat or republican. We are not aware of the tortures, assassinations, or persecutions committed by our own govt in the shadows, so how are these people guilty? We in the west do not stop unjust wars either. But at a time when most female German women had no idea whether their families were alive, dead or in a gulag somewhere, they search the bombed out streets for food for their children, only to be snatched up like war trophies. Or their teenage daughters are grabbed. No men to protect them. No justice if it happens. The suicide rate would be high. I don’t wish this on any people.

This is horrifically atrocious. I'm sure words can't even begin to describe the defeated helplessness that followed the terror of brutal violation of oneself and loved ones, neighbors. It's just so sickening to think of literally being hunted and gang raped every time you left home, hell even your home as an uninvited guest was fair game obviously... It's just like I'm to numb to begin to comprehend that feeling, ugh, it's unimaginabley hellacious. How long were these rapes allowed to continue? What a useless cruel barbaric war.

Some of this is told in The tin drum. Some of this also happened in Vietnam and Iraq. It doesn't matter if they are Russians, American or Israelites: they are all human beings and nothing is worse than that (as Mark Twain said when asked about the different races).

Learning this is painful. But it is crucial to know and remember to protect against it today and in future days.

Censorship in the internet proves that what the Allies told about the war was not the Truth

Most of the Army men, despite their Nationality, do horrible things to Women during Wars.. Lucky are those women who meet Soldiers with empathy, kindness and strength to keep them safe...

Those German women and girls didn’t deserve that. 😢 RIP to all of them.

War is the #2 most terrible thing ever. The #1 most terrible thing is LOSING a war.

Horrific ordeals, assaulting... are we living in a world when saying "raped" is not PC???

My grandmother was a victim of these days. Raped and killed by red army soldiers during the very last days of the war. 🫣 Actually i watch these kind of videos to possibly see a picture of her with my father (5) and his sister (3). I guess i would recognize the three of them.

Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your videos. God Bless the Innocent Victims, the Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them.🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

Russian soldiers have long been known for this type of sadism and brutality. Some people try to excuse it as a special condition of the war with Germany, thus neglecting that they had been up to these sorts of things throughout the "Soviet Union" before WWII ever started, and are still up to them in the war in Ukraine today.

There were atrocities from all countries in the war. But, there was a reason so many tried to surrender to the west. There has always been a real hatred between Germany and Russia. It showed on the battlefields, the conquered cities, and the prisons. I had several family members that fought in WWII and even lost an uncle in the Battle of the Bulge. From what I have heard, even the German soldiers fought with more honor in the west. One of my uncles that fought in north Africa and Italy said when the German soldier surrendered and laid down his weapons, he was through. I guess when the Russian soldiers saw what had happened to some of their people they were looking for revenge, but honorable soldiers shouldn't act badly against women and children.

The report is true, but, the details of what was done to the groups of captured German, female soldiers was omitted, because it is too cruel to mention.

On 7/1/45 the Soviets came to my hometown after US troops "liberated" the town and British were there for two weeks. A Soviet officer family confiscated my grandmother's parents' house. At some point they found her school report card with a swastika stamp. "That caused trouble"... she once said to me. Physically, however, they remained unharmed.

It’s the untold story that allied soldiers Rape and massacred over 800.000 German woman and girls from an age of 8!! So many of the survivors was tortured over month and many of them only see an escape if the brutal torture in suicide. It was a unbelievable war crime that never get punished. Also nobody of this poor victims never could accuse this fact and that ended in a huge collective trauma.

Great video, but the voice sounds like that of a computer.... makes it harder to listen to

It defies me how Hitler's generals let him have his way, when they knew his strategy was no good. As soon as D-Day was over it should've been clear that they'd lost. The German army could've retreated from France and put up all their efforts on the Eastern Front, and then the Americans would've pushed beyond Berlin. It would've saved us from 45 years of Communism. Even when Berlin was surrounded, Hitler was ordering the army stretched thin, when his generals wanted to put everything into keeping the Soviets out.

I watched a Red Army soldier tell a Tory if two very young teen girls that were trying to get through the Soviet camp at early day light. He stated that he tried to get them to go back from where they came from fast. They didn’t understand and continued forward. Both were caught and raped to death by over 20 men. Both girls were around the age of 11-14 years old. There are the brutalities of war then there are things like this that go way above and beyond.

FINALLY....A VIDEO ON COMMUNIST HORRIFIC CRIMES

so sad.....

The homeless in Baton Rouge kinda do this nightly with any homeless women that become isolated. Worked a job that said they'd fire us for going into the abandoned works to find and help them, but the police took 2.5-3 hours to come so very rarely did any help arrive in time. The screaming still stays with me tbh. Humans really know how to hurt each other better than anything else.

These animals destroyed paradise on earth and brought about all the horrors of this disenchanted ugly and worthless world we have to live in today. May the burn in hell for all of eternity

Sadly this happens in every war…..every conquest

It's hard to comprehend the hell that Europe descended into during the 1940s. So many atrocities were committed by all sides, and by civilians. The whole of Europe went insane.

So hard to believe this all happened in the 1900s. Horrible evil humans are capable of.

If only mankind could find a way to avoid war at all cost....what a wonderful world this could be!

An invaluable documentary. Thanks for sharing. The Allies were anything but liberators

Yes this happened. The Eastern front was insanely brutal. Both sides did unspeakable things a million times over.

How history repeats itself.

my German landlady in Berlin spoke a bit of those times, horrific

Can you imagine what Germans did in Russia...Minsk, Kiev, Sevastopol, Stalingrad... Germans must have been real gentleman...

Самые ужасные преступления против человечества совершила нацистская Германия! Вспомните газовые камеры в концентрационных лагерях, когда немецкие изверги умертвляли тысячи людей. Вспомните убитых гражданских людей, в том числе детей на территории Советского Союза. Красная Армия освободила большую часть Европы от немецких палачей, вы забыли сей факт, господа! Да, были факты издевательства и изнасилования немок, но они резко сократились когда появился расстрельный приказ.

Its strange that the title talks of "Horrific Torture" yet makes no mention of it in the video but refers to vicious rapes as just "assaults" strange observations.

It's terrible that these women were assaulted by these men may these women rest in peace with Jesus

I don't know how my mother and our family survived Berlin.

You reap what you sow.

The comments section is Soul crushing. There are no words to atone for what has happened

my mother, born in 1933 experienced and survived exactly this final battle for Berlin in the age of 12 years, she did not tell me much, but what she told me as whitness was horrific, in addition she in general was not allowed to seek shelter in bunkers or other facilities, because her "producer" was russian, so she was marked as "enemy blooded"

Gawd I could not take the incredible monotony of this guys cadence.

I can’t listen anymore ..am stopping and going out for a walk.. too much

Nothing much has changed even in this present Ukrainian conflict the same atrocities rear their ugly heads . As long as man walks on this earth these awful barbaric acts will continue, as humans we never learn .

No one ever mentions these atrocities .

It's a shame that on the 20th April, the Soviets didn't arrange loudspeakers around the Furher bunker to play "happy birthday" at full volume

The experience of the Red Army by various nations vastly depends on whether they were pro-nazi during the war or not. My family is from Northern Serbia. My grandma still vividly remembers how the Red Army soldiers treated her parents and their neighbours with utter respect and kindness when they were passing through their village after liberating them from the nazi occupation. She remembers her mum dressed her up in a pretty dress and one of the Red Army soldiers, who played the accordion, started crying when he saw her cause she reminded him of his daughter. These soldiers just needed rest and they stayed a couple of nights in peoples' backyards. My grandma was quite young at the time but she remembers the army field kitchen was in their backyard and all the Red Army soldiers who came to get food there, were nice and friendly to the locals and no one in their village was afraid of them. It has to be said that my grandma comes from a village and a family that were anti-fascist during the war. It is possible that the Red Army soldiers were understandably not as nice to nazis and their collaborators whom there were many of throughout the region and Europe in general.

I knew but the story is swept under the carpet ...... Don't be too surprised if it gets taken down ......

For anybody interested in this particular subject, I would recommend the book "Anonyma" Facts told by one of the victims, but nobody knows who she is, hence "Anonyma". There is also a movie made based on the book, but it´s in german. Don´t know if it has been translated into english. Check it out, folks!!

My Mother was a Viennese and she was robbed and raped by Soviet Armists together with her Mother in the cellar.

My aunt was amongst the Berlin victims of the Russians. She survived but was scarred for the remainder of her life. The Russians were barbarians and remain so--witness the atrocities committed in Bucha, Ukraine.

I know a guy whose mother was 17 when the Soviets entered Berlin. After the fall of Berlin, she was hidden inside a wall for 3 days to keep her safe.

I met a woman once that lived through that and 40 years later, living in the US, was/is? still talking about having been assaulted by a soldier for chocolate (she didn't know what accepting it indicated at the time) as if it had recently just occured and that was a mild incident.

Other nationals commited similar crimes as they passed though europe after ww2

2023 and nothing has changed.

Now, in light of what Russia did lately, we can all of a sudden talk about the atrocities Russians committed in WW2? That has never been possible before.

Just a little correction on the thumbnail: The left picture shows soviet officers, you can see it on their uniform. I'm pretty sure it is a post-ww2 uniform though. The belts also were made after ww2, not during.

Should be noted that Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge, Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, and General Ernst Hammer, all of whom commanded regular Wehrmacht forces, each at some point issued orders to execute captured Soviet women soldiers. Many German soldiers, disgusted to find that Soviet women were engaged in combat against them, didn't need orders. About 1 million Soviet women served as regular army soldiers, so I find it interesting that I can't recall ever seeing any photos of Soviet female POW's being held by Germany. You'd think there would have been enough of them captured that had they not all been executed in the field, that they would have filled a POW slave labor camp or two, and that we'd have some photos of them.

Why does this guy always end his sentences with an inflection?

You know there is a saying among military and police, "Payback is a bitch."

The Savage Peace, a BBC documentary is also worthwhile watching. Not only were the Germans and Russians were exceptionally cruel, but the Allied forces did unthinkable and unforgivable things. Many died because of excessive cruelty by the allies and nobody cared.

Thanks for doing a doc of this topic so; understated but definitely worthy of mention. Torture they was sanctioned I heard from Stalin as the spoils and rewards to the Red Army for their conquering Berlin. Vengeful

There has always been enough savage brutality to go around.

The Red Army was allowed to do this by Stalin to punish Germany. Two wrongs do not make a right.