Berlin
Beevor, Antony
Berlin - London Viking Penguin 2002 - 489p hardback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the massage of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever know, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Within the mass, individuals faced an arbitrary fate.
0670886955 0.00 0670886955 9780670886951
Nazi Party,
Red Army
Soviet
German
Berlin
SS
Adolf Hitler
Third Reich
940.5421 BEE
Berlin - London Viking Penguin 2002 - 489p hardback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the massage of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever know, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Within the mass, individuals faced an arbitrary fate.
0670886955 0.00 0670886955 9780670886951
Nazi Party,
Red Army
Soviet
German
Berlin
SS
Adolf Hitler
Third Reich
940.5421 BEE