The Germans retreated. 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 . In addition, I wonder about the genre of the field diary for Russian soldiers. Even when Berlin women were not driven so far as to take their own lives, the rapes inevitably caused disease and unwanted babies. 962 297 154 info@platon.es Partida la Garrofera, s/n 46839 Guadasequies. Add links. 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I don't believe that the Russian troops behaved substantially worse or better than the troops of other countries. [188], In 2004, Vassili Kononov, a Soviet partisan during World War II, was convicted by Latvian supreme court as a war criminal for killing three women, one of whom was pregnant. On Page 234 of his . Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28 Mai 1974. Translated by Joshua Sanborn. 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. East Prussia (Ostpreuen), a former province of Prussia and the 2. und 3. Russian soldiers picked up on that story line as the war proceeded (not least due to efforts by higher-ups to document atrocities committed against Russian soldiers), but early on, as this diary suggests, it may have not played a large role. [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. I have read academic blogs from time to time and I usually enjoy them. by michael mills 15 Nov 2004, 14:51, Post Mounting evidence indicates that the Russian Federation's forces are torturing and killing civilians in the cities they capture. For standard histories' treatment of the invasions, see Roger Chickering, Imperial GermanyandtheGreatWar,1914-1918,2nded.Cambridge,2004,24,26-27,and99; [28] In 1941, some 34,000 Estonians were drafted into the Red Army, of whom less than 30% survived the war. [49] The estimated death toll among deportees between 1945 and 1958 was 20,000, including 5,000 children. It was a common Soviet practice to accuse their victims of being fascists in order to justify their death sentences. 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]. You can also imagine in Silesia, the women who were caught on the treks; and by the . 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Does the diary change in tone as the author moves through the war? . This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. They were specifically responsible for maintaining the political regime in the Gulag and conducting mass deportations and forced resettlement. Included in the latter figure are about 15,000 Jews, largely victims of executions by Nazi SS and Arrow Cross Party death squads. "Der Umgang mit den Denkmlern." Kurland had a mixed population of Latvians and Germans. We quickly saddled our horses, and the news spread like lightning that German infantry was marching upon us. by WalterS 14 Nov 2004, 08:29, Post The fact that these men were whipped by a German baron for driving their horses too hard (and not for raping the locals) says volumes about relations between soldiers and officers, ethnic groups within the Russian army (which had plenty of ethnically German officers in 1914), and the mundane violence of life on the front starting from the very first days of the war. 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. [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]. [81], On 9 August 1937, NKVD order 00485 was adopted to target "subversive activities of Polish intelligence" in the Soviet Union, but was later expanded to also include Latvians, Germans, Estonians, Finns, Greeks, Iranians and Chinese. I say this because letters I have read tend to be far less laconic than diaries. [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. http://russianhistoryblog.org/2011/02/atrocities-in-east-prussia-1914/, http://www.ggsmn.org/Regional%20Pages/East%20Prussia.htm. [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. In one farmyard the women were stripped naked and nailed through their hands in cruciform position. 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. [47], Lithuania, and the other Baltic States, fell victim to the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. 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. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, the incipient Soviet political apparatus was either destroyed or retreated eastward. 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. A lot of guys were very drunk. historical analysis, as Soviet and East German archives were opened and scholarly research encouraged. Women and young girls were raped and left to die. Stalin climaxed with the words, "And such an Army was insulted by no one else but Djilas! Occasionally, the battalions burned people alive. [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. [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. [127], The Soviet Union also committed war crimes in Romania or against Romanians from the beginning of the occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940 all the way to the German invasion in 1941, and later from the expulsion of the Germans in the region until 1958. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a more systematic, locally controlled discussion of these events has taken place.[23]. Martynas Jankus and the deportation of East Prussian civilians to Russia during World War I, . That situation has begun to change with the publication of a good deal of high quality scholarship on the events on the Western Front, most notably John Horne and Alan Kramers German Atrocities, 1914, but scholarship on the events in East Prussia is far thinner. 3,981 Atrocities Of Soviet Premium High Res Photos Browse 3,981 atrocities of soviet stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. hello. Efforts were made by Soviet authorities to contain anti-Jewish bigotry notably during the Russian civil war, whenever the Red Army units perpetrated pogroms,[11][12] as well as during the Soviet-Polish War of 19191920 at Baranovichi. 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[146][145][147] Property of the Japanese were also looted by the Soviet soldiers and Chinese. [187], In 2003, August Kolk (born 1924), an Estonian national, and Petr Kislyiy (born 1921), a Russian national, were convicted of crimes against humanity by Estonian courts and each sentenced to eight years in prison. "Unheard-of Brutality": Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia, 1914-1915 * Alexander Watson; Alexander Watson. 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. According to Djilas, the Soviet refusal to address protests against Red Army war crimes in Yugoslavia enraged Tito's government and it was a contributing factor in Yugoslavia's subsequent exit from the Soviet Bloc. In the wake of a half a century of attempts to have international laws of war and other rules to mitigate its savagery, some held the expectation that European states would and should fight each other without the systematic abusing of civilian populations. [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. . Slovak communist leader Vlado Clementis complained to Marshal Ivan Konev about the behavior of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. The commission also found that the Polish military and civil authorities did their best to prevent such incidents and their recurrence in the future. They had found two girls along the way and had dragged them into the rye in order to court them. Some 300,000 Lithuanians were deported or sentenced to terms in prison camps on political grounds. [105][pagesneeded][106][bettersourceneeded][107], In addition, fighter bombers of the Soviet air force flew bombing and strafing missions that targeted columns of refugees. In the Russian Empire the Jewish and German minorities in particular were suspected of 'unreliability'. Your email address will not be published. (1997). Nazi propaganda originally meant to stiffen civil resistance by describing in gory and embellished detail Red Army atrocities such as the Nemmersdorf massacre often backfired and created panic. by WalterS 15 Nov 2004, 20:56, Post Archivalien und ausgewlte Erlebenisberichte, Bonn 1989, pp. In 2009, Captain Hosenfeld was posthumously honored by the State of Israel for his role in saving Jewish lives during The Holocaust. Gottfried Schramm, Jan T. Gross, Manfred Zeidler et al. by xcalibur 15 Nov 2004, 00:59, Post by Ogorek 08 Nov 2004, 19:48, Post Its capital city was Knigsberg (presentday Kaliningrad). On 25 September 1956, MVD Order N 0402 was adopted and defined the removal of restrictions towards the deported peoples in the special settlements. Dear Doverog - I appear to have a slightly different view of the so called History . Today I received joyful news. [167], Some German prisoners were released soon after the war. 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. This article examines whether East Prussia did, in fact, suffer "unheard-of brutality" at Russian hands during the invasions of 1914-15. [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'. 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. [173] In one notable incident the Soviet Army committed mass killing of civilians in the summer of 1980. Wybr i opracowanie Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudziska-Gross. But we had hardly begun feasting when the alarm was raised. [27] The Estonian standing army was broken up, its officers executed or deported. He made the claim after Russian forces pulled out of many . Thousands of Breslau civilians had waited to evacuate the city when they heard news of the Soviet advance on January 14, 1945.They could not evacuate until 6 days later because of rail damage and battles. Required fields are marked *. . full stop. Prior the deportation, the Peoples Commissariat established operational groups who performed arrests, search and seizure of the property. [91] Afterward, the Soviet Greeks started returning to their homes, or emigrating towards Greece. 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. [165], Soviet soldiers rarely bothered to treat wounded German POWs. [10] Those found guilty could and did face execution. Prussia was forced to accept a French army of occupation and had to become an ally of France, contributing troops to his ongoing wars. 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. [148] Many Japanese women married themselves to local Manchurian men to protect themselves from persecution by Soviet soldiers. [8] This created a situation in which war crimes by the Soviet armed forces could eventually be rationalized. From 1824-1878, East Prussia was combined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia, after which they were re-established as separate provinces. The Krlis Ulmanis government was removed, and new illegitimate elections were held on 21 June 1940 with only one party listed, "electing" a fake parliament which made resolution to join the Soviet Union, with the resolution having already been drawn up in Moscow prior the election. Lithuania was then occupied by Nazi Germany for a little over three years. [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. The division had received its first baptism. Second, and related, it seems that I often hear about the significance of World War I, among other reasons, for the brutalization of warfare. It is estimated that Lithuania lost almost 780,000 citizens as a result of the Soviet occupation, of these around 440,000 were war refugees. [64][65][66][67], Soldiers of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) were persecuted and imprisoned by Russian forces as a matter of course. 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. time to avoid being overrun by the Red Army, if they issued orders at all. [100], Some historians dispute this, referring to an order issued on 19 January 1945, which required the prevention of mistreatment of civilians. 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. 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. [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. These last remaining German residents were expelled in more ethnic cleansing of 1949-50. 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 [174] The provinces of Nangarhar, Ghazni, Lagham, Kunar, Zabul, Qandahar, Badakhshan, Lowgar, Paktia and Paktika witnessed extensive depopulation programmes by the Soviet forces. Civilians were run over by tanks, shot, or otherwise murdered. The scale and duration of civilian abuse in those regions was much greater than anything that happened in East Prussia. [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." [17] Although pogroms by Ukrainian units of the Red Army still occurred after this, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was willing to protect them. Mauricius Parts, son of the Estonian War of Independence veteran Karl Parts, was doused in acid. The end was foreshadowed when the wartime Allies divided East Prussia between Russia and Poland and approved the expulsion of all East Prussians. The place the Russians entered Germany. According to a secret Soviet Ministry of Interior report dated December 1965, 46,000 people were deported from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic for the period 19401953. Furniture and larger objects of art, etc. Note that Holocaust denial is not allowed. [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. Not that the NKVD had sadists in its ranks who had run amok; rather, this was a wide and systematic procedure. Aleksandr Subbotin was a cavalryman from the village of Kolkovo in Tver province who served in Rennenkampfs First Army at the start of World War I. Latvia became part of the Soviet Union on 5 August, and on 25 August all people in Latvia became citizens of the Soviet Union. Other evidence cemented the War Crimes Bureau's belief that Stalin had given secret orders about the massacre of POWs. [56] Many civilians tried to escape from the Soviet NKVD round-ups; those who failed were taken into custody and afterwards they were deported to Siberia and vanished in the Gulags.[55]. "[123], According to Richard Overy, the Russians refused to acknowledge Soviet war crimes, partly "because they felt that much of it was justified vengeance against an enemy who committed much worse, and partly it was because they were writing the victors' history. [164][need quotation to verify][pageneeded] Dr. Rdiger Overmans believes that it seems entirely plausible, while not provable, that an additional German military personnel listed as missing actually died in Soviet custody as POWs, putting the estimates of the actual death toll of German POW in the USSR at about 1.0 million. 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. 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. 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. His edited volume of the diary was published in 2008 in the small burg of Kimry (pop. During its invasions of East Prussia, the Russian army deported a large number of German civilians, perhaps as many as 13,600, including 6,500 women and children. Whenever possible, as soon as the Wehrmacht retreated, local civilians began to flee westward on their own initiative. And an Army which did not spare its blood for you! The Germans retreated back. This kind of feeling would make sense later in the war, and particularly dug in on the western front where the lines of battle moved little, but Im surprised to see it so early on the eastern front. [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. The Red Army often gave support to the NKVD in the implementation of political repressions. Learn how your comment data is processed. [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. Why not wink at the comrades who courted two girls they grabbed off the road and dragged into the rye? " 19141920 ." 75 . The incident took place after a victory celebration in which numerous girls from Treuenbrietzen were raped and a Red Army lieutenant-colonel was shot by an unknown assailant. At four in the morning, Riazanov and Iurchuk arrived. Indiscipline hampered the cohesion and fighting ability of the troops (remember Subbotin's drunk and hungover men in the midst of battle). by Peter H 15 Nov 2004, 03:37, Post East Prussia. [57] Similar atrocities occurred in Sambor, Stanisaww, Stryj, and Zoczw. It is precisely the normality of his tone that is most shocking. 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. Then, in 1942, 1944 and 1949, the NKVD indiscriminately arrested all Greek men 16 years old or older. . The division remained in the village of Olshanka, and on the 31st we set out in the direction of Magriboven. Soldiers of the Red Army, together with members of the NKVD, frequently looted German transport trains in Poland in 1944 and 1945. And upon their arrival they were sent for punishment to Lieutenant Rekunov. Soviet forces faced some protests by Chinese communist party leaders against the looting and rapes committed by troops in Manchuria. by sylvieK4 09 Nov 2004, 15:59, Post [151][152][153] There were several incidences,[spelling?] 30 July 1914. Some 20,000 . [55] Polish historian, Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz, has noted parallels between the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and these Soviet units. [83] The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who had died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389,521. 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