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Originally Posted by ilduclo
I read a Stalingrad history book about a year ago. I came away with respect for the Russians and pity for the Germans.
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There are references in
Stalingrad to enough gang rapes and mass child murders by the invading Nazis to justify any killing of any of the invading fascists. There were thousands of corpses around, the children the nazis had butchered and hung from the trees were just some of many the arriving troops would see trying to get to the front. For weeks no one had time to deal with the corpses, the onslaught by the Germans just went on and on, one barely had time to dig your own trench never mind bury a frozen stranger.
One thesis of this book is that Soviet Russia saved the world by stopping Hitler from gaining Moscow and the resources of Russia.