When Steve Barnes invited me to join this project, I hadnt given much thought to blogging as a scholarly enterprise. In 1945, at the end of World War II, East Prussia was overrun by Soviet troops and about 600,000 of its civilian inhabitants were killed. Martynas Jankus and the deportation of East Prussian civilians to Russia during World War I, . [25][26], In accordance with the MolotovRibbentrop Pact Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union on 6 August 1940 and renamed the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Despite having been invited "as a comrade", Korneev exploded at them for offering "such insinuations" against the Red Army. by WalterS 14 Nov 2004, 08:29, Post The original question on this thread was a quest for knowledge about the behavior of Russian troops in East Prussia in 1914, and whether or not they had committed atrocities against the civilian population. East Prussia. 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Over 2,400 civilians were killed. 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. by michael mills 15 Nov 2004, 14:51, Post We broke open their cellars, took out harmonicas, brought some wine, and began a real party. Almost all of them were partisans or unarmed civilians. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28 Mai 1974. " "? Konev's response was to claim it was done mainly by Red Army deserters. 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. [121] However, Naimark contends that the rapes continued until the winter of 194748, when Soviet occupation authorities finally confined troops to strictly guarded posts and camps. 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Just inside the east Prussian border with Soviet occupied Lithuania, the town of Nemmersdorf (now Mayakovskoye in East Prussia) was the first to fall (temporarily) into the hands of the victorious Soviet Army. [134][135][136], Another infamous massacre committed by Soviet troops was the Lunca massacre, where soviet border troops opened fire against several Romanian civilians attempting to escape into Romania, killing 600 of them, only 57 managed to escape, with another 44 being arrested and tried as "members of a counter-revolutionary organization", 12 of them were sentenced to death, with the rest being sentenced to 10 years forced labour and 5 years loss of civil rights, the family members of those arrested and shot would later be arrested and sent to Siberia and Central Asia[137], During the occupation, the Soviet government and army deported thousands of Romanian civilians from the occupied regions into "special settlements". According to sociologist, Prof. Tadeusz Piotrowski, during the years from 1939 to 1941, nearly 1.5 million persons (including both local inhabitants and refugees from German-occupied Poland) were deported from the Soviet-controlled areas of former eastern Poland deep into the Soviet Union, of whom 58.0% were Poles, 19.4% Jews and the remainder other ethnic nationalities. This article examines whether East Prussia did, in fact, suffer "unheard-of brutality" at Russian hands during the invasions of 1914-15. [4] Russian media refers to the crimes against humanity and war crimes as a "Western myth",[5] in Russian history textbooks, the atrocities are either altered to portray the Soviets positively or omitted entirely. The NKVD also conducted the Katyn massacre, summarily executing over 20,000 Polish military officer prisoners in April and May 1940. The Red Army often gave support to the NKVD in the implementation of political repressions. 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. They say theyve taken back Velikie Luki. 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 Imperial German Army on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front. Second, and related, it seems that I often hear about the significance of World War I, among other reasons, for the brutalization of warfare. 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. Martynas Jankus and the deportation of East Prussian civilians to Russia during World War I, . Learn how your comment data is processed. Everyone was all mixed up together, someone groaned, someone threw up. In November 1980 a number of such incidents had taken place in various parts of the country, including Laghman and Kama. [141][142] This caused concern to the Yugoslav communist partisans, who feared that stories of crimes committed by their Soviet allies would weaken their standing among the population. Whenever possible, as soon as the Wehrmacht retreated, local civilians began to flee westward on their own initiative. The prosecution of these cases legally had to go through local . Exploding shells were visible, both from us and the Germans. Stalin is said to have angrily reacted: "I shall not tolerate anybody dragging the honour of the Red Army through the mud. A total of 1,204 cases of looting with assault were also documented. [101][102][103], On several occasions during World War II, Soviet soldiers set fire to buildings, villages, or parts of cities, and they used deadly force against locals who attempted to put out the fires. [64][65][66][67], Soldiers of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) were persecuted and imprisoned by Russian forces as a matter of course. After the reconquest by the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking with the support of 333 Infantry Division and the 7th Panzer Division on 18 February 1943 the Wehrmacht soldiers discovered numerous deaths. How three million Germans died after VE Dayhttp://www.odfinfo.de/en/History/After-the-Reich.htm'They raped every German female from eight to 80'http://www.od. by Ogorek 08 Nov 2004, 19:48, Post Brandenburgische Landeszentrale fr politische Bildung/Ministerium fr Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg. Data from the Soviet archives indicates 2.4 million Kulaks were deported from 1930 to 1934. "[124], According to researcher and author Krisztin Ungvry, some 38,000 civilians were killed during the Siege of Budapest: about 13,000 from military action and 25,000 from starvation, disease and other causes. The Russians regarded East Prussia as the seat of German militarism. East Prussia (Ostpreuen), a former province of Prussia and the 2. und 3. 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 It was one of the occasions during the glasnost and perestroika era in which the USSR used force against dissidents. [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. . It was from East Prussia that the Teutonic Knights launched forays into Poland and the Baltic regions in the 13th and 14th centuries. . , The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven p. 424. International Commission For the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. [180], In order to separate the mujahideen from the local populations and eliminate their support, the Soviet army killed and drove off civilians, and used scorched earth tactics to prevent their return. The preferred form of suicide was poison, and most Berlin women seem to have been provided with poison before the Red Army arrived. . 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? by David Thompson 15 Nov 2004, 21:25, Return to Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes. Women were gang raped by as many as several dozen soldiers during the liberation of Poland. 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. Kurland had a mixed population of Latvians and Germans. We must remember that, for the most part, WWI was a dynastic struggle, not a "war of annihilation" that WWII in the east became. [167], Some German prisoners were released soon after the war. . Soviet forces faced some protests by Chinese communist party leaders against the looting and rapes committed by troops in Manchuria. [8] This created a situation in which war crimes by the Soviet armed forces could eventually be rationalized. [54] The NKVD task forces followed the Red Army to remove 'hostile elements' from the conquered territories in what was known as the 'revolution by hanging'. In November 2006, photographs showing Soviet atrocities were declassified by the Finnish authorities. Our artillery got into position, and we extended into a line. [100], Some historians dispute this, referring to an order issued on 19 January 1945, which required the prevention of mistreatment of civilians. n aprilie 1941, trupele NKVD au ucis 3.000 de romni", "Pagina de istorie: Masacrul de la Lunca, pedeapsa pentru cei care au dorit s evadeze din "paradisul sovietic", "An August Storm: the Soviet-Japan Endgame in the Pacific War", "Chapter XII Events in Manchuria, 194547", "From Colonial Jewel to Socialist Metropolis: Dalian 1895-1955", "Genocide and the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan", "Diplomats report massacre in Afghanistan", "U.N. Rights Study Finds Afghan Abuses by Soviets", "Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan / prepared by the Special Rapporteur, Felix Ermacora, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1984/55", "Tears, Blood and Cries. [50], During the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990 and 1991, the Soviet army killed 13 people in Vilnius during the January Events.[51]. Goldsmiths, University of London. where Chinese police forces in Manchuria arrested or even killed Soviet troops for various crimes, leading to some conflicts between the Soviet and Chinese authorities in Manchuria. On the road to the village we shot about eight spies. Don't do it again. [59], It's estimated that between 10 and 35 thousand prisoners were killed either in prisons or on prison trail to the Soviet Union in the few days after the 22 June 1941 German attack on the Soviets (prisons: Brygidki, Zolochiv, Dubno, Drohobych, and so on). The work gives a rambling description of the Soviet invasion of East Prussia in January 1945; atrocities committed against German civilians are the main concern. It is precisely the normality of his tone that is most shocking. The deportations were understandably brutal as the result of war crimes committed under the German occupation. [128], Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as was documented when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation in Germany.[129]. [80], Around 3,500 Finnish prisoners of war, of whom five were women, were captured by the Red Army. A region of more than forty versts of East Prussia along the border was enveloped by fire. all that solves the population problem a man might consider evil, id call it nature, heres to another century of glorious violence . [130], According to historian James Mark, memories and opinions of the Red Army in Hungary are mixed. [83] The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who had died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389,521. Panic spread throughout the Reich as Germans contemplated the province's likely fate. 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. 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. Our lieutenant was killed early on, the soldier Seleznev was killed, and others too. Such an inquiry is totally in keeping with the purpose of this forum and blanket statements such as It is well known that are silly. [189][190] He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity. The exhibition was previously shown in Davos during the World Economic Forum in May 2022. Res Publica i Wyd. Russia in Prussia - The New York Times Many of those comments have related to the issue of rape in wartime. At one time, listserves promised to break down some of these barriers, but few of them really do. Everyone without exception was smoking cigars, the very best taken from the shops, and they were eating chocolate. [75] In Krakw, the Soviet entry into the city was accompanied by mass rapes of Polish women and girls, as well as the plunder of private property by Red Army soldiers. [169][170], Scholars Mohammad Kakar, W. Michael Reisman and Charles Norchi believe that the Soviet Union was guilty of committing a genocide in Afghanistan. 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 . Bright and literate enough to keep a diary, but occasionally clueless enough to be confused about the actual army he was in (he wrote that he was serving in the Fourth Army), he left behind a diary of the war and several photographs. 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. [57] According to historian, Prof. Jan T. Gross: We cannot escape the conclusion: Soviet state security organs tortured their prisoners not only to extract confessions but also to put them to death. But I didnt plan to write them myself. 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 . The scale and duration of civilian abuse in those regions was much greater than anything that happened in East Prussia. This was one of the reasons that atrocity became such a big storyline in the war itself. [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. 65 lat od obawy augustowskiej. 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." [171][172] The army of the Soviet Union killed large numbers of Afghans to suppress their resistance. Among the most famous German POWs to die in Soviet captivity was Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, who died of injuries, sustained possibly under torture,[citation needed] in a concentration camp near Stalingrad in 1952. historical analysis, as Soviet and East German archives were opened and scholarly research encouraged. They were specifically responsible for maintaining the political regime in the Gulag and conducting mass deportations and forced resettlement. Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"[144]. As I said, one gets much more of this emotion from letters, and certainly from memoirs as well. [174] The provinces of Nangarhar, Ghazni, Lagham, Kunar, Zabul, Qandahar, Badakhshan, Lowgar, Paktia and Paktika witnessed extensive depopulation programmes by the Soviet forces. 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. Transfer of Property in Enemy Occupied Territory. . [122] Naimark concluded that "The social psychology of women and men in the Soviet zone of occupation was marked by the crime of rape from the first days of occupation, through the founding of the GDR in the fall of 1949, until, one could argue, the present. More languages. [9], The early Soviet leaders publicly denounced anti-Semitism,[10] William Korey wrote: "Anti-Jewish discrimination had become an integral part of Soviet state policy ever since the late thirties." Many soldiers and officers were buried over the course of those days. Subbotin is exceptionally, almost painfully, cool and frank in his short descriptions of raping and pillaging below. Many of the Wehrmacht's top commanders came from the area, which had produced highly trained soldiers for centuries. No more than half of those men were used for military service. In panic and desperation, 50,000 to 60,000 left on foot, mostly women and children, in bitter winter weather. Founded in 1999. They were found guilty of deportations of Estonians in 1949. [145] The local Chinese population sometimes even joined in these attacks against the Japanese population with the Soviet soldiers. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, the incipient Soviet political apparatus was either destroyed or retreated eastward. Wybr i opracowanie Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudziska-Gross. [146][145][147] Property of the Japanese were also looted by the Soviet soldiers and Chinese. [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. The Ministry of Foreign affairs was closed isolating Latvia from the rest of the world. [notes 1][108][109], The first mayor of the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Walter Kilian, appointed by the Soviets after the war ended, reported extensive looting by Red Army soldiers in the area: "Individuals, department stores, shops, apartments all were robbed blind. 2 . [174] The Soviet army indiscriminately killed combatants and noncombatants to ensure submission by the local populations. [154], Russian historian Konstantin Asmolov argues that such Western accounts of Soviet violence against civilians in the Far East are exaggerations of isolated incidents and the documents of the time don't support the claims of mass crimes. 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. These last remaining German residents were expelled in more ethnic cleansing of 1949-50. was looted several times. Beevor has written that Red Army soldiers also raped Soviet and Polish women liberated from concentration camps, and he contends that this undermines the revenge explanation,[119] they were often committed by rear echelon units. 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I wonder how much of a role terrible boredom ( ), such as Iakovlev complained of, played in that cruelty. They dealt a healthy blow to the fascists. [43] The destruction battalions murdered 1,850 people in Estonia. inauthor:"Marcin Zaremba" in Google Books. Some of the atrocities may constitute war crimes, said investigators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who examined myriad reports of rapes, abductions and attacks. The Morgenthau report stated that some forms of discrimination against Jews were of a political rather than an anti-Semitic nature and it specifically avoided using the term "pogrom", noting that the term's use was applied to a wide range of excesses, and it also had no specific definition. Others wondered whether these German protestations were little more than an attempt to divert attention from the atrocities they were accused of committing in Belgium and France at the same time. rape and looting is a natural (and best) part of warfare, reference to which can be found in many primary sources. Convict soldiers were then used to replace them; it was testified that they "stole everything in sight, broke up bathtubs and toilets with hammers, pulled electric-light wiring out of the plaster, built fires on the floor and either burned down the house or at least a big hole in the floor, and in general behaved completely like savages. I might add that I have studied the First World War in the East rather extensively and I don't believe that the Russian troops behaved substantially worse or better than the troops of other countries. All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first. He made the claim after Russian forces pulled out of many . Similar was the fate of Swedish diplomat and OSS operative Raoul Wallenberg. It was a common Soviet practice to accuse their victims of being fascists in order to justify their death sentences. The division set out and at six oclock in the evening crossed the border near the Filippovskii customs post in the direction of the town of Marusken, which is a verst from the Russian border. By one estimate, around 50,000 Greeks were deported.[89][90]. Lithuania was then occupied by Nazi Germany for a little over three years. [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. As a punishment, several entire ethnic groups were deported, mostly to Central Asia and Siberia into labor camps. 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