Many of the bodies were horribly mutilated, ears and noses cut off and genital organs amputated and stuffed into their mouths. In November 1980 a number of such incidents had taken place in various parts of the country, including Laghman and Kama. Nevertheless, the events in East Prussia ought to be of interest more broadly to students of twentieth century Russia and to students of the Great War. I havent read much in WW I soldiers diaries, but the cadence of your translation reminds me of some of the British soldiers of the period. A report by the Swiss legation in Budapest describes the Red Army's entry into the city: During the siege of Budapest and also during the following weeks, Russian troops looted the city freely. Instead, wartime violence was understood by some constituencies in a different way. 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. A German military judge who was at the scene stated in an interview during the 1970s that he saw a female body with her legs spread-eagled and a broomstick rammed into her genitals. [50], During the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990 and 1991, the Soviet army killed 13 people in Vilnius during the January Events.[51]. This was the first incursion into 'The Reich' and the German propoganda machine made much of the Russian atrocities commited in places like Nemmersdorf. by xcalibur 15 Nov 2004, 00:59, Post Don't do it again. A total of 1,204 cases of looting with assault were also documented. 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 affected mostly Pontic Greeks and other Minorities in the Krasnodar Krai and along the Black Sea coast. The Massacre of Grischino was committed by an armoured division of the Red Army in February 1943 in the eastern Ukrainian towns of Krasnoarmeyskoye, Postyschevo and Grischino. At one time, listserves promised to break down some of these barriers, but few of them really do. Nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by the invading forces. [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". These were organized after victims had been arrested under false charges by the NKVD or other Soviet controlled security organisations such as the Ministry of Public Security. Here is what British historian John Keegan has to say on the subject of the behavior of Russian troops in Eastern Prussia in 1914: "Tannenburg, as a result, became for the Germans their outstanding victory of the conflict. Djilas described these figures as, "hardly insignificant if it is borne in mind that the Red Army crossed only the northeastern corner of Yugoslavia". East Prussia Coat of Arms. In happier times. Between 1941 and 1944, Soviet partisan units conducted raids deep inside Finnish territory, attacking villages and other civilian targets. War crimes committed by the Russian forces in Ukraine. by Tancred 14 Nov 2004, 03:27, 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. On Page 234 of his . In 1939, East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans. Most students of atrocity on the Eastern Front have focused on Galicia or Anatolia, with good reason. As so often in war, it was to be defenceless women, girls and even elderly. 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. Does the diary change in tone as the author moves through the war? On a related note, I would argue that its easy to exaggerate the process of brutalization or weariness as processes that unfold slowly during the war. They dies of starvation and from Gestapo bullets. What soldier wouldnt race to get the best cheese? All the perversion of this Soviet tactic lay in the fact that practically all of the accused had in reality been fighting against the forces of Nazi Germany since September 1939. 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. Estonians residing in Leningrad Oblast had already been subjected to deportation since 1935. In September 1939, the Red Army invaded eastern Poland and occupied it in accordance with the secret protocols of the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. [68] Most victims were deported to the gulags in the Donetsk region. Many soldiers and officers were buried over the course of those days. Following WWI, East Prussia became an enclave cut off from the rest of Germany as the land between West and East Prussia was ceded to Poland. 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." [157], During the evacuation of the Kuriles and Karafuto, civilian convoys were attacked by Soviet submarines in the Aniva Gulf. inauthor:"Marcin Zaremba" in Google Books. I say this because letters I have read tend to be far less laconic than diaries. 30 July 1914. [149] A foreigner witnessed Soviet troops, formerly stationed in Berlin, who were allowed by the Soviet military to go at the city "for three days of rape and pillage." This article examines whether East Prussia did, in fact, suffer "unheard-of brutality" at Russian hands during the invasions of 1914-15. It was one of the occasions during the glasnost and perestroika era in which the USSR used force against dissidents. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. The Russian snapper spent over 1,400 days during World War II on the . [22], War crimes by Soviet armed forces against civilians and prisoners of war in the territories occupied by the USSR between 1939 and 1941 in regions including Western Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia in Romania, along with war crimes in 19441945, have been ongoing issues within these countries. 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. Everyone without exception was smoking cigars, the very best taken from the shops, and they were eating chocolate. that could not be taken away were frequently simply destroyed. [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. . " 19141920 ." onierze Sowieccy w dzkim 19451946", ukasz Kamiski "Obdarci,godni,li, Sowieci w oczach Polakw 19441948". Its an exciting opportunity. (2001)", Deportations of the Population in 1944-1953, "On This Day 13 January 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station", Wielkie polowanie: Przeladowania akowcw w Polsce Ludowej, May Katy. All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first. However, through a combination of coercion and rhetoric, which appealed Latvia became part of the Soviet Union on 5 August, and on 25 August all people in Latvia became citizens of the Soviet Union. Some 300,000 Lithuanians were deported or sentenced to terms in prison camps on political grounds. "Okupowany Krakw - z prorektorem Andrzejem Chwalb rozmawia Rita Pagacz-Moczarska", see bibliogroup:"Dzieje Krakowa: Krakw w latach 1945-1989" in Google Books, https://web.archive.org/web/20080524235517/http://www3.uj.edu.pl/alma/alma/64/01/02.html, "Too awful an image of war: Sixty years on, there are no grounds to withhold images kept in a Finnish Defence Forces' safe", "Chechnya: European Parliament recognises the genocide of the Chechen People in 1944", Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, "Texts adopted: Final edition EU-Russia relations", ". . They had found two girls along the way and had dragged them into the rye in order to court them. More Poles were settled in southern East Prussia, renamed the "Warminsko- Mazurskie Voivodship." The policy of communist Poland after the war dictated that German names be systematically removed, church yards and grave stones ploughed under, monuments demolished, and houses [69] In 1945 alone, the number of members of the Polish Underground State who were deported to Siberia and various labor camps in the Soviet Union reached 50,000. 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. But I didnt plan to write them myself. They used booby traps, mines, and chemical substances throughout the country. At least 500 civilians were killed. [173] In one notable incident the Soviet Army committed mass killing of civilians in the summer of 1980. Excerpt, Chapter one The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945-2002 - William I. Hitchcock - 2003 - ISBN -385-49798-9 ( The occupation of East Prussia) Description of the atrocities of the Red Army in East Prussia, quotations from Ilya Ehrenburg, poems by anti-cruelty Red Army officers and details of . The division remained in the village of Olshanka, and on the 31st we set out in the direction of Magriboven. The Prussian Holocaust began in August 1944 in two East Prussian villages called Nemmersdorf and Goldap. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28 Mai 1974. Exploding shells were visible, both from us and the Germans. These remnants were preserved by local historians and ended up in a special room of the House of Trades in the town of Goritsy. Slovak communist leader Vlado Clementis complained to Marshal Ivan Konev about the behavior of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Total War produced atrocities so terrible that they were bound to be avenged once the Red Army reached German soil. East Prussia is a country, duchy and province. In Harbin, the Chinese posted slogans such as "Down with Red Imperialism!" Verhey devotes two pages to East Prussia 90-91, and Raithel mentions East Prussia onlybriey whilediscussingGerman perceptionsofthe Russian enemy 320 and 330. [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. Dear Doverog - I appear to have a slightly different view of the so called History . [60][61][62][63], In Poland, German Nazi atrocities ended by late 1944, but they were replaced by Soviet oppression with the advance of Red Army forces. [42], In 1941, to implement Stalin's scorched earth policy, destruction battalions were formed in the western regions of the Soviet Union. Natalya Gesse, a close friend of the scientist Andrei Sakharov, had observed the Red Army in action in 1945 as a Soviet war . At the time and long afterwards, German sources insisted that East Prussia had been despoiled and its inhabitants violated by the invading Russian troops in the time period between the Russian invasion and the German victories at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes that drove the Russians back on their side of the border. The preferred form of suicide was poison, and most Berlin women seem to have been provided with poison before the Red Army arrived. WalterS -- If you're going to say something like: I can assure you, Mr. Mills, that when you. And an Army which did not spare its blood for you! They did commit atrocities, however, the original question of this thread had to do specifically with 1914. In Jul 1946, Knigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad, and Russification of the region began. Report of an eyewitness: Erika Morgenstern, who survived Knigsberg 1945 as a child (in German): This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 23:45. It had been one of the strongest pro-German holdouts in the war that formed an independent Latvia after WWI. In one farmyard the women were stripped naked and nailed through their hands in cruciform position. The most common causes of death were hunger, cold and oppressive transportation. Now outcasts in their own homeland, many succumbed to starvation and disease as virtual slave laborers for their new masters, and the survivors were expelled in the late 1940s. In fact there are other testimonies that suggest that among certain groups (Cossacks in particular), looting and abusing civilians was part of the benefits package of being a soldier, and I think this expectation has a very long lineage in the history of warfare. Erna Schneider, born 1936, escaped into the forest from a windowless cattle train transporting East Prussian children to Russia. [116] Following the Winter Offensive of 1945, mass rape by Soviet males occurred in all major cities taken by the Red Army. German complaints OnAugust 11, 1914, a week and a half after war had broken out betweenGermany and Russia, a terrified crowd from the East Prussian border village of Radszen appeared at the office of the . Otherwise the unspeakable crimes would not have occurred. According to Yugoslav politician Milovan Djilas, at least 121 cases of rape were documented, 111 of which also involved murder. The places were overrun by the Soviet 4th Guards Tank Corps on the night of 10 and 11 February 1943. On 17 June 1940, Latvia was occupied by Soviet forces. Res Publica i Wyd. Most of the Ingrian Finns together with Votes and Izhorians living in German-occupied territory were evacuated to Finland in 19431944. Department of History 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. General Korneev responded by screaming, "I protest most sharply at this insult given to the Red Army by comparing it with the armies of capitalist countries. Subbotin is exceptionally, almost painfully, cool and frank in his short descriptions of raping and pillaging below. Stalinism resulted in five times more casualties among the Estonians than Hitler's rule. Recorded examples included forced conscription, kidnappings, detentions, and torture. Most of Mukden was gone. January 1945. Note that Holocaust denial is not allowed. Latvia was included in the Soviet sphere of interest. At four in the morning, Riazanov and Iurchuk arrived. After the Germans retook Feodosia, it was learned that every wounded soldier had been massacred by Red Army, Navy, and NKVD personnel. The prosecution of these cases legally had to go through local . Indeed, there are relatively few copies even in Russian. Stremousov expects the puppet Kherson authorities to appeal to Russian president Vladimir Putin to include the region in the Russian Federation directly instead of establishing a pseudo republic. Today, the Russian government engages in historical negationism. No, theres no full translation of the diary available, Im afraid. To the contrary, I think many shifts occur very quickly and at the very outset of the war. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a more systematic, locally controlled discussion of these events has taken place.[23]. [18] On Page 234 of his . [158][159], Throughout the Second World War, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau collected and investigated reports of crimes against the Axis POWs. More than 17,000 people were deported to Siberia in June 1941. Our artillery got into position, and we extended into a line. 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. The crime was perpetrated by the Soviet occupation regime on the orders of high authorities in Moscow. [148] Many Japanese women married themselves to local Manchurian men to protect themselves from persecution by Soviet soldiers. 962 297 154 info@platon.es Partida la Garrofera, s/n 46839 Guadasequies. by sylvieK4 09 Nov 2004, 15:59, Post by WalterS 15 Nov 2004, 06:57, Post Such an inquiry is totally in keeping with the purpose of this forum and blanket statements such as. In addition, I wonder about the genre of the field diary for Russian soldiers. [99], According to historian Norman Naimark, statements in Soviet military newspapers and the orders of the Soviet high command were jointly responsible for the excesses of the Red Army. The group of 17 Holocaust museums from the U.S., U.K., Canada and South Africa are supporting an international investigation into whether Russia committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine. This was one of the reasons that atrocity became such a big storyline in the war itself. We broke open their cellars, took out harmonicas, brought some wine, and began a real party. Pictures show Nazi executions in Poland and Ukraine as well as atrocities by Japanese troops in China in 1937 . We set out from the town of Suvalki and arrived in the village of Motula, where we only paused to eat, and in the evening we marched to the village of Olshanka, where we stood six versts (one verst is 1.06 kilometers js) from the border of East Prussia. [64][65][66][67], Soldiers of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) were persecuted and imprisoned by Russian forces as a matter of course. Subbotin reports his own behavior and the behavior of his comrades just after they crossed the German border in 1914 without a hint of self-censorship. Whenever possible, as soon as the Wehrmacht retreated, local civilians began to flee westward on their own initiative. Ungvry writes that when the Soviets finally claimed victory, they initiated an orgy of violence, including the wholesale theft of anything they could lay their hands on, random executions and mass rape. [138], Religious persecution was also widespread, the Soviet government sought to exterminate all forms of organized religion in its occupied territories, often persecuting the Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish churches, the Soviet political police arrested numerous priests, with others being arrested and interrogated by the Soviet NKVD itself, then deported to the interior of the USSR, and killed. by sylvieK4 08 Nov 2004, 17:19, Post 4 August. Soon everything had calmed down and we unsaddled the horses and began to feast again. as tsarist troops poured across east prussia's eastern and southern borders, penetrating deep into its interior, frightening reports of civilians tortured and murdered, officials arrested, and. On the road to the village we shot about eight spies. WalterS -- We don't permit racial slurs here, even when accompanied by the prefix "detestable term." Your email address will not be published. Precisely therefore these kinds of Poles were judged capable of resisting the Soviets, in the same way that they had resisted the Nazis. East Prussia (Ostpreuen) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 to 1945. first Soviet settlers arrived from Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. 3 August. There is a clear sense of us versus them, and that the resistance to the German invaders is worthwhile: News from the front is good. As the Red Army withdrew after the German attack of 1941 which is known as Operation Barbarossa, numerous reports of war crimes committed by Soviet armed forces against captured German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe soldiers from the very beginning of hostilities were documented in thousands of files of the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau which was established by Nazi Germany in September 1939 to investigate violations of the Hague and Geneva conventions by Germany's enemies. [128], Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as was documented when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation in Germany.[129]. Never before had the light of East Prussia seemed so bright, the sky so high, the countryside so vast, as in 1944, wrote Hans Graf von . Discussions on the Holocaust and 20th Century War Crimes. 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 . [93], By 1939 the Ingrian Finnish population had decreased to about 50,000, which was about 43% of 1928 population figures,[94] and the Ingrian Finn national district was abolished.,[95] Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Leningrad Blockade, in early 1942 all 20,000 Ingrian Finns remaining in Soviet-controlled territory were deported to Siberia. For standard histories' treatment of the invasions, see Roger Chickering, Imperial GermanyandtheGreatWar,1914-1918,2nded.Cambridge,2004,24,26-27,and99; [120], According to Norman Naimark, after the summer of 1945, Soviet soldiers caught raping civilians usually received punishments ranging from arrest to execution. [47], On 14 June 1941, thousands of people were taken from their homes, loaded onto freight trains and taken to Siberia. [73] It is estimated that over 20,000 people died in Soviet prisons[citation needed]. A lot of guys were very drunk. The infantrymen had loaded up planks with six or more wheels of cheese and were carrying cups and rolling away whole barrels of Russian butter, which they were eating directly with their hands or spreading on the cheese. Wybr i opracowanie Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudziska-Gross. Similar was the fate of Swedish diplomat and OSS operative Raoul Wallenberg. 2 . A partisan war broke out in response to the atrocities of the destruction battalions, with tens of thousands of men forming the Forest Brothers to protect the local population from these battalions. [55] Polish historian, Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz, has noted parallels between the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and these Soviet units. , 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. 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. Our lieutenant was killed early on, the soldier Seleznev was killed, and others too. A particularly infamous example took place after the Crimean city of Feodosia was briefly recaptured by Soviet forces on December 29, 1942. Aleksandr Mikhailovoch Subbotin, Dnevnik soldata Pervoi mirovoi voiny (Kimry: IP Melnikova N. V., 2008), 21-25. The War Crimes Bureau had five major sources of information: (1) captured enemy papers, especially orders, reports of operations, and propaganda leaflets; (2) intercepted radio and wireless messages; (3) testimony of Soviet prisoners of war; (4) testimony of captured Germans who had escaped; and (5) testimony of Germans who saw the corpses or mutilated bodies of executed prisoners of war. In some cases, these acts were committed upon the orders of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet Government's policy of Red Terror. As a punishment, several entire ethnic groups were deported, mostly to Central Asia and Siberia into labor camps. 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. 2000. Deportations were predominantly to Siberia and Kazakhstan by means of railroad cattle cars, without prior announcement, while deported were given few night hours at best to pack their belongings and separated from their families, usually also sent to the east. 5.2K 181K views 2 years ago During the Soviet conquest of East Prussia the Red Army behaved very cruel towards the German civilians. 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. In many cases, after looting, the homes were also put on fire, causing a vast total loss Bank safes were emptied without exception even the British and American safes and whatever was found was taken. In tears, Stalin denounced "the Yugoslav Army and how it was administered." 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. by WalterS 09 Nov 2004, 17:22, Post They entered practically every habitation, the very poorest as well as the richest. [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. Or, at best 15 . In August 1941, all residents of the village of Viru-Kabala were killed including a two-year-old child and a six-day-old infant. [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]. Many of the people were killed after torture. Why not wink at the comrades who courted two girls they grabbed off the road and dragged into the rye? Is this in fact the case, and if so, is it that something fundamental had changed prior to the beginning of the hostilities? The dates below are old style (13 days behind the western calendar), and the place names are straight transliterations from the Russian (thus Suvalki rather than Suwaki). Lafayette College (Pennsylvania, USA), This is fascinating, Josh. 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. The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes . 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