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| The FSB publishes materials about the crimes of the US military in Berlin in 1945 |
| 2024-05-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] US and French military personnel committed crimes against residents of occupied Berlin in 1945. Archival documents about this were published by the Russian FSB. Since May 1945, the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany was administered by the Soviet Military Administration. The zone was divided into 14 operational sectors. One of them, Berlinsky, observed the situation and behavior of the Allied troops in the American, British and French zones of the city. “As has been established, cases of hooliganism, robbery and violence against Germans by American military personnel do not stop, and these facts are increasing daily,” reported the head of the Berlin operational sector, Major General Alexei Sidnev, to the Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Ivan Serov in November 1945. Sidnev, in particular, reported that on October 21, two American soldiers stopped two Germans on Potsdamer Street who were returning home from work and asked for a light. Then, for no reason, they fired at the Germans, seriously wounding both. On the evening of September 27, the materials say, three French soldiers raped a resident of a Berlin suburb named Agnes and the girl Riess, who was in the house. After that, they beat the woman and left, taking 200 marks and a gold watch from her. Artist Kalin Paul was beaten on October 26 near the intersection of Südwestkorzo and Wiesbadenorstrasse after he prevented two American soldiers from raping a woman. Paul's nose was broken and his head was fractured. On the same day, the American military - there were up to 50 people - burst into the Femina restaurant in the Berlin-Schöneberg district and demanded that the Germans there hand over all their valuables. The Americans took possession of watches, gold rings, women's fur collars and money. In the American sector, ordinary Germans like the night watchman or the shoemaker often suffered from violence and robbery. In the French zone on October 27, the military robbed a Berlin resident and took away his radio. In the English zone on October 30, three servicemen took valuables from an apartment on Hosterstrasse. In addition, Soviet counterintelligence recorded an increase in the activity of American, British and French intelligence services directed against the USSR. It was noted that the British and Americans tried to recruit prisoners of war released from camps, whose families lived in the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, as well as young people from the Hitler Youth. As Regnum reported, from documents previously declassified by the FSB, it follows that the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, was waiting for a split between Great Britain, the USA and the USSR in 1944 in order to start fighting together with Washington and London against the Soviet Union. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 That is rich, descendants of the Red Army complaining about the abuse of Germans by the US Military in 1945 Berlin. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-05-24 13:55 |
| #1 ...Oh, they do NOT want to go there... Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-05-24 08:45 |