Status Updates From Ravensbrück: Life and Death...

It's disturbing to learn Russian soldiers "systematically" raped pretty much all women, including Ravensbrück survivors. It's ironic the prisoners didn't need to fear rape from their German captors, who treated them as less than human otherwise. Only to find liberation brought about new and even more degrading horrors. Also, the Russian Army women had to contend with being treated as collaborators for being captured.

All thru the war the ICRC was aware of the concentration camps, many atrocities, and likely even the death camps, yet did nothing. Suddenly in the last 4 months or so of the war, they worked to get some prisoners released (in exchanges). Likely because the neutral Swedes were showing the Swiss up in rescuing camp prisoners.