Brandenburgische Landeszentrale fr politische Bildung/Ministerium fr Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg. They used booby traps, mines, and chemical substances throughout the country. Equally importantly, abusing civilians complicated military occupation, not only in East Prussia, but especially in Poland and Galicia, where the Russians were trying to win "hearts and minds." Slovak communist leader Vlado Clementis complained to Marshal Ivan Konev about the behavior of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Lafayette College (Pennsylvania, USA), This is fascinating, Josh. It is interesting to compare the excerpts that you have translated from this diary with the diary of S. F. Putiakov (1941-1942), which I translated for a recent anthology intended for undergraduates (The Russia Reader, Duke U. P., 2010, pp. [75][117] According to historian Antony Beevor, following the Red Army's capture of Berlin in 1945, Soviet troops raped German women and girls as young as eight years old. [45][46], On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression agreement. Snyder, Timothy. Libra. [155] Indeed, the incidence of rape committed in the Far East was far less than the number of incidents committed by Soviet soldiers in Europe. WalterS -- We don't permit racial slurs here, even when accompanied by the prefix "detestable term." Soviet authors Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and. A significant number of these incidents occurred in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe recently before, and during, the aftermath of World War II, involving summary executions and the mass murder of prisoners of war, such as in the Katyn massacre and mass rape by troops of the Red Army in territories they occupied. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian forces in Ukraine committed atrocities beyond even the Nazis in the 1940s. They dies of starvation and from Gestapo bullets. [174] One notable war crime was the Laghman massacre in April 1985 in the villages of Kas-Aziz-Khan, Charbagh, Bala Bagh, Sabzabad, Mamdrawer, Haider Khan and Pul-i-Joghi[175] in the Laghman Province. This agreement was signed between the USSR and Germany in August 1939; leading first to Lithuania being invaded by the Red Army on 15 June 1940, and then to its annexation and incorporation into the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940. [50], During the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990 and 1991, the Soviet army killed 13 people in Vilnius during the January Events.[51]. Soviet Leninets-class submarine L-12 and L-19 sank two Japanese refugee transport ships Ogasawara Maru and Taito Maru while also damaging No.2 Shinko Maru on August 22, 7 days after Hirohito had announced Japan's unconditional surrender. In 1995, Latvian courts sentenced former KGB officer Alfons Noviks to a life in prison for genocide due to forced deportations in the 1940s. From 1941 to 1945 the Bureau compiled several thousand depositions, reports, and captured papers which, if nothing else, indicate that the killing of German prisoners of war upon capture or shortly after their interrogation was not an isolated occurrence. by xcalibur 15 Nov 2004, 00:59, Post . "[160], In a November 1941 report, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau accused the Red Army of employing "a terror policy against defenseless German soldiers that have fallen into its hands and against members of the German medical corps. [31] As a result of the Soviet occupation, Estonia permanently lost at least 200,000 people or 20% of its population to repression, exodus and war.[32]. And in order to make up for lost time, they drove their horses at a full gallop in order to catch up to the regiment. Deportations on a smaller scale continued after 1931. [29] After it became clear that the German invasion of Estonia would be successful, political prisoners who could not be evacuated were executed by the NKVD, so that they would not be able to make contact with the Nazi government. It is estimated that 3,450 Jews or 2.3 percent of the Jewish victims killed during the Russian Civil War were murdered by the Bolshevik armies. Discussions on the Holocaust and 20th Century War Crimes. As so often in war, it was to be defenceless women, girls and even elderly. Can anyone help me with information about Russian atrocities committed during the 1914 invasion of East Prussia? After the feast I lay down to sleep next to my horse Gabalnik and soon fell asleep. In some cases victims who did not hide in the basements all day were raped up to 15 times. Who would be concerned by shooting about eight spies over the course of a days march? [118], The explanation of "revenge" is disputed by Beevor, at least with regard to the mass rapes. Everyone was all mixed up together, someone groaned, someone threw up. Soldiers of the Red Army, together with members of the NKVD, frequently looted German transport trains in Poland in 1944 and 1945. We broke open their cellars, took out harmonicas, brought some wine, and began a real party. The evacuation of East Prussia refers to the evacuation of the German civilian population and military personnel in East Prussia and the Klaipda region between 20 January, and March 1945, as part of the evacuation of German civilians towards the end of World War II. In a resolution of 22 January 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR declared that the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 19 January, used to impose emergency rule in Baku and military deployment, constituted an act of aggression. Its capital city was Knigsberg (presentday Kaliningrad). The Soviet refusal to recognize the Hague Conventions also gave Nazi Germany the rationale for its inhuman treatment of captured Soviet military personnel. War crimes committed by the Russian forces in Ukraine. A particularly infamous example took place after the Crimean city of Feodosia was briefly recaptured by Soviet forces on December 29, 1942. [115], Western estimates of the traceable number of rape victims range from two hundred thousand to two million. The Goldap-Gumbinnen offensive was launched by the Russian 3rd Belorussian Front in October 1944. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. The Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle also known as WuSt (Wehrmacht criminal investigating authority), announced that among the victims were 406 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, 58 members of the Organisation Todt (including two Danish nationals), 89 Italian soldiers, 9 Romanian soldiers, 4 Hungarian soldiers, 15 German civil officials, 7 German civilian workers and 8 Ukrainian volunteers. Exploding shells were visible, both from us and the Germans. The matter-of-fact approach to everyday occurrences seems quite similar. . They took away everything they wanted, especially food, clothing and valuables every apartment, shop, bank, etc. ( 1)", "Stadt ohne Mnner - Berlin - Tagesspiegel", 'They raped every German female from eight to 80', "Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps", "Remembering Rape: Divided Social Memory and the Red Army in Hungary 19441945", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb, ngropat de KGB: peste 2000 de romni ucii de trupele sovietice", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb. At four in the morning, Riazanov and Iurchuk arrived. On Feb 24, the first day of the invasion, the Russian army crossed the administrative border of the region from the annexed Crimea and began the . Stalin is said to have angrily reacted: "I shall not tolerate anybody dragging the honour of the Red Army through the mud. Arrests took place in all parts in Latvia including rural areas. Despite this unusual provenance, Subbotins diary is not all that different from other Russian soldier diaries I have read, but there is one significant difference. A total of 1,204 cases of looting with assault were also documented. [7], The Soviet Union did not recognize Imperial Russia's signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 as binding, and as a result, it refused to recognize them until 1955. In the early 1970s I worked at a hotel in Washington, D.C. with an elderly East Prussian, who, if memory serves, was from the Tilsit area. Archivalien und ausgewlte Erlebenisberichte, Bonn 1989, pp. Controversial: The statue depicting a typical occurrence of a Soviet soldier raping a pregnant German woman with the gun in her mouth was removed in Poland's Gdansk TRUTH SPEAKERS ARE PERSECUTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL GANG: Polish town tears down statue marking the rape of millions of German women by Russian soldiers In November 1980 a number of such incidents had taken place in various parts of the country, including Laghman and Kama. [158][159], Throughout the Second World War, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau collected and investigated reports of crimes against the Axis POWs. As well as being the natural course for the Russians to take upon the declaration of war with Germany, it was also an attempt to focus German military eyes on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front, where France was increasingly under the strain of her own German . Only two were presentYuriy Mel, a former Soviet tank officer, and Gennady Ivanov, a former Soviet munitions officerwhile the other were sentenced in absentia and are hiding in Russia. [42], In 1941, to implement Stalin's scorched earth policy, destruction battalions were formed in the western regions of the Soviet Union. [87][88], The prosecution of Greeks in the USSR was gradual: at first the authorities shut down the Greek schools, cultural centres, and publishing houses. The crime was perpetrated by the Soviet occupation regime on the orders of high authorities in Moscow. Women were gang raped by as many as several dozen soldiers during the liberation of Poland. They were read there by Vladimir Burdin, who thought the story of the local boy off at the Great War merited publication. [167], Some German prisoners were released soon after the war. Why not wink at the comrades who courted two girls they grabbed off the road and dragged into the rye? More than 17,000 people were deported to Siberia in June 1941. [28] In 1941, some 34,000 Estonians were drafted into the Red Army, of whom less than 30% survived the war. Following World War II and the subsequent suppression of the Lithuanian Forest Brothers, the Soviet authorities executed thousands of resistance fighters and civilians whom they accused of aiding them. Documents relating to the war in France, Italy, and North Africa contain some reports on the deliberate killing of German prisoners of war, but there can be no comparison with the events on the Eastern Front. These include images of slain women and children. [146], Following the invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Manchuria), the Soviets laid claim to valuable Japanese materials and industrial equipment in the region. At least 500 civilians were killed. In Harbin, the Chinese posted slogans such as "Down with Red Imperialism!" Everyone without exception was smoking cigars, the very best taken from the shops, and they were eating chocolate. [86], Deportations, summary executions of political prisoners and the burning of foodstocks and villages took place when the Red Army retreated before the advancing Axis forces in 1941. East Prussia, July 1944 Alastair Noble The Red Army's advance towards the frontiers of East Prussia in the summer of 1944 raised the spectre of the war coming home to Germany. [145] The local Chinese population sometimes even joined in these attacks against the Japanese population with the Soviet soldiers. Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers and ambulances, leaving thousands of civilians killed or wounded. [184] There was an outcry against the press in the Soviet Union for depicting the Russian "war heroes" as "murderers", "aggressors", "rapists" and "junkies".[185]. The scale of rape of Polish women in 1945 led to a pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases. 27.05.2011, 12.49 Uhr. Sometimes helpful, sometimes self-indulgent, often stimulating, frequently ranting, Ive put them on the list of things Ill browse for intellectual pleasure in odd moments in the day, say the ten minutes I have between lunch and my one-fifteen class. After Finland sued for peace, it was forced to return the evacuees. [156], The Soviet Army committed crimes against the Japanese civilian populations and surrendered military personnel in the closing stages of World War II during the assaults on Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. The prosecution of these cases legally had to go through local . In the Russian Empire the Jewish and German minorities in particular were suspected of 'unreliability'. Indiscriminate killings of civilians attempting to flee the violence. Similar was the fate of Swedish diplomat and OSS operative Raoul Wallenberg. Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown in Baku on 1920 January 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. East Prussia (Ostpreuen), a former province of Prussia and the 2. und 3. Nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by the invading forces. . full stop. Department of History One doesnt want to carry lots of paper for obvious reasons when on the march, and acquiring it may have had its challenges as well. [192], Media related to War crimes committed by the Soviet Union at Wikimedia Commons, Violations of the law of war committed by the Soviet Union. He then "spoke agitatedly about the sufferings of the Red Army and the horrors that it was forced to endure while it was fighting through thousands of kilometers of devastated country." In one farmyard the women were stripped naked and nailed through their hands in cruciform position. Such an inquiry is totally in keeping with the purpose of this forum and blanket statements such as. The list of atrocities and apparent war crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops in Ukraine gets longer by the day. [111], A study published by the German government in 1974 estimated the number of German civilian victims of crimes during expulsion of Germans after World War II between 1945 and 1948 to be over 600,000, with about 400,000 deaths in the areas east of Oder and Neisse (ca. The Prussian Holocaust began in August 1944 in two East Prussian villages called Nemmersdorf and Goldap. Torture was used on a wide scale in various prisons, especially in those prisons that were located in small towns. 518-519). In the cellar of the main train station around 120 Germans were herded into a large storage room and then mowed down with machine guns. Some sources claim that as many as 1,000 civilians may have been executed during the incident. The war crimes and crimes against humanity which were perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts which were committed by the NKVD, including acts which were committed by the NKVD's Internal Troops. The boredom of war is clearly communicated by the fact that Putiakov prefaces each entry in his diary with the never changing note, On guard. Beyond recording the amount of rations he was given each day and noting when he was able to melt snow in order to wash himself, Putiakov devotes much of his diary (which in total encompasses four notebooks) to trying to make sense of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. On the road to the village we shot about eight spies. Djilas, who was present at the meeting, spoke up and explained the British Army had never engaged in "such excesses" while liberating the other regions of Yugoslavia. [125][126][127] According to Norman Naimark, Hungarian girls were kidnapped and taken to Red Army quarters, where they were imprisoned, repeatedly raped and sometimes murdered. [163][need quotation to verify][pageneeded], Soviet sources list the deaths of 474,967 of the 2,652,672 German Armed Forces taken prisoner in the War. In 2009, Captain Hosenfeld was posthumously honored by the State of Israel for his role in saving Jewish lives during The Holocaust. Prussia was forced to accept a French army of occupation and had to become an ally of France, contributing troops to his ongoing wars. Lithuania was then occupied by Nazi Germany for a little over three years. By one estimate, around 50,000 Greeks were deported.[89][90]. My first post is a short translation Id like to share and briefly comment upon. Your email address will not be published. Mariusz Lesaw Krogulski, "Okupacja w imi sojuszu" Poland 2001. sfn error: no target: CITEREFMarshall2010 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFVouitra2011 (, Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451978. Soviet political repressions in Estonia were met by an armed resistance by the Forest Brothers, composed of former conscripts into the German military, Omakaitse militia and volunteers in the Finnish Infantry Regiment 200 who fought a guerrilla war, which was not completely suppressed until the late 1950s. The preferred form of suicide was poison, and most Berlin women seem to have been provided with poison before the Red Army arrived. A lot of guys were very drunk. The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during World War I, lasting from August to September 1914.As well as being the natural course for the Russian Empire to take upon the declaration of war on the German Empire, it was also an attempt to focus the German Army on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front.Despite having an overwhelming superiority over the Germans in numbers . I say this because letters I have read tend to be far less laconic than diaries. Post Kurland had a mixed population of Latvians and Germans. Along with the rest of the Kingdom of Prussia, East . It lies between 53 degrees 8'30" and 55 degrees 53'40" North latitude and 36 degrees 59'6 and 40 degrees 33'12" East . The European Parliament described the deportation of Chechens and Ingush, where around a quarter people perished, an act of genocide in 2004:[98], Believes that the deportation of the entire Chechen people to Central Asia on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin constitutes an act of genocide within the meaning of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 and the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948. When Steve Barnes invited me to join this project, I hadnt given much thought to blogging as a scholarly enterprise. East Prussia Coat of Arms. But some women were deeply shaken by what they witnessed in Germany. [191], On 27 March 2019, Lithuania convicted 67 former Soviet military and KGB officials who were given sentences of between four and 14 years for the crackdown against Lithuanian civilians in January 1991. Over 2,400 civilians were killed. Konev's response was to claim it was done mainly by Red Army deserters. " "? What soldier wouldnt race to get the best cheese? Nazi behaviour in Russia during the war is also analysed along with the actions of . But we had hardly begun feasting when the alarm was raised. [128], Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as was documented when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation in Germany.[129]. At least 6,000 political death sentences were issued, and the majority of them were carried out. These remnants were preserved by local historians and ended up in a special room of the House of Trades in the town of Goritsy. [74], The attitude of Soviet servicemen towards ethnic Poles was better than their attitude towards the Germans, but it was not entirely better. Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia 783 The Rape of Lvov - Iconic Photos Even when Berlin women were not driven so far as to take their own lives, the rapes inevitably caused disease and unwanted babies. All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first. [171][172] The army of the Soviet Union killed large numbers of Afghans to suppress their resistance. One example was the Fntna Alb massacre, in which 443,000 Romanians were killed by the Soviet Border Troops and the NKVD while attempting to escape to Romania. After World War II its territory was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland. Although the total number of victims remains a matter of guessing, the Polish state archives and statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate that it might have exceeded 100,000. [30] More than 300,000 citizens of Estonia, almost a third of the population at the time, were affected by deportations, arrests, execution and other acts of repression. Does the diary change in tone as the author moves through the war? 2 . I have a couple of questions born really out of my own ignorance about military history. Argnold did not like Russian soldiers in general, since he himself was a German baron, and Rekunov also was strict. Aleksandr Mikhailovoch Subbotin, Dnevnik soldata Pervoi mirovoi voiny (Kimry: IP Melnikova N. V., 2008), 21-25. The latter targeted a number of ethnic groups that the Soviet authorities presumed to be hostile to its policies and likely to collaborate with the enemy, including Chechens, Crimean Tatars, and Koreans. In 1939, East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans. Their mortality rate is estimated to have been about 40 percent. Whenever possible, as soon as the Wehrmacht retreated, local civilians began to flee westward on their own initiative. onierze Sowieccy w dzkim 19451946", ukasz Kamiski "Obdarci,godni,li, Sowieci w oczach Polakw 19441948". One could have expected him to be equally sensitive to that ethnic group's suffering during the First World War. [47], Lithuania, and the other Baltic States, fell victim to the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. The commission also found that the Polish military and civil authorities did their best to prevent such incidents and their recurrence in the future. This Russian order probably had very little distribution, and surely it has not been followed at all. Many others, however, remained in the GULAG long after the surrender of Nazi Germany. [13][14][15] Only a small number of pogroms were attributed to the Red Army, with the vast majority of the 'collectively violent' acts in the period having been committed by anti-Communist and nationalist forces. 75 . When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began closing in on its capital, Kyiv, Andrii Dereko begged his 22-year-old stepdaughter Karina Yershova to leave the suburb where she lived. During the Augustw chase in 1945, more than 2,000 Poles were captured and about 600 of them are presumed to have died in Soviet custody. by WalterS 14 Nov 2004, 08:29, Post I wonder how much of a role terrible boredom ( ), such as Iakovlev complained of, played in that cruelty. [citation needed] The Soviet annexation resulted in mass terror, the denial of civil liberties, the destruction of the country's economic system and the suppression of Lithuanian culture. Most of the Ingrian Finns together with Votes and Izhorians living in German-occupied territory were evacuated to Finland in 19431944. The norms of warfare in the pre-war period served to judge the escalating violence of the war but also to blame the enemy for the worst transgressions, which occurred in various contexts, war on land, invasions and occupations, the home front, war at sea and war in the air. I found that ignorance rather odd in view of his constant hammering of the theme of Jewish suffering during the Second World War. [6] In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the "horrors of Stalinism", but he also criticized the "excessive demonization of Stalin" by "Russia's enemies". First, is there something particular to World War I about this soldiers mindset, or is it simply a permanent feature of war to have so little regard for individuals that things which strike us as atrocity are to this soldier nothing out of the ordinary? Fate of Swedish diplomat and OSS operative Raoul Wallenberg ), 21-25 Steve Barnes me... 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