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One thing everyone who was there remembers is the sudden silence that descended upon the destroyed metropolis of 2,000,000 people. You could hear the starlings and greenfinches singing in the ruins. There were few cars, except for military vehicles, on the broken-up avenues and cluttered streets. All one could hear for quite a while was the soft sound of shuffling feet and the wheels of handcarts being pushed.
— Sep 15, 2026 05:28PM
Carol
is on page 327 of 400
Rape is something all conquering armies do. But the scale of violence against German women was extraordinary. Hospitals estimated that more than 100,000 Berlin women were raped, and about 10,000 victims died, often by killing themselves in shame. Survivors claim that German women in East Prussia and other areas that are now part of Poland and Russia suffered even more.
— Sep 15, 2026 05:08PM