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This video provides a comprehensive overview of the suffering and devastation experienced by Germany during and after World War I and World War II. Following the Treaty of Versailles, Germany faced economic turmoil and political instability, which eventually led to the rise of the National Socialists and an improvement in the country's economy. However, envy and fear from other nations triggered World War II, resulting in terror bombings by the British and widespread atrocities committed against German civilians by Soviet troops. The treatment of German prisoners by the Allies was brutal, with starvation diets and denial of access to food. The Morgenthau Plan further devastated Germany, leading to expulsions and mass killings. The immense suffering inflicted on Germany during and after the wars cannot be justified and has often been overlooked in history.

During World War 2, Germany experienced intense bombing campaigns by the British and Americans. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris planned to unleash the full power of the Royal Air Force on German civilians. The city of Hamburg was heavily targeted, resulting in massive destruction and loss of life. The bombings were repeated in other German cities, including Berlin and Dresden. The bombing of Dresden, in particular, was devastating, with thousands of bombs obliterating the city and causing a firestorm. The death toll in Dresden alone surpassed that of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The Allied forces also targeted anything moving in the German countryside, including civilians and animals. The goal was not only to physically destroy Germany but also to demoralize its people.

During World War I, Germany faced chaos, poverty, and social issues, but experienced an economic boom and regained hope when the National Socialists came to power. However, envy and fear from other nations led to World War II, the deadliest war in history. Germany suffered terror bombing by the British, and the Soviet Union committed atrocities against German civilians. The Allied forces, including Americans and British, engaged in looting, rape, and killing, while German prisoners of war were mistreated and many died from starvation and neglect. Men in American camps were forced to drink their own urine, and the International Red Cross's efforts were rejected. Eisenhower's program of mistreatment resulted in the deaths of at least 1.5 million German prisoners. Denazification became a cover for rape, torture, and death, and the Morgenthau plan aimed to destroy Germany completely, causing widespread suffering. The expulsion of Germans from Eastern Germany led to around 2 million deaths. The suffering of the German people was largely ignored, while Allied leaders and their actions were shielded from criticism. The true horrors of war cannot be justified or ignored.

Stalin violated multiple non-aggression pacts and invaded several countries, causing widespread terror and death. The Allies, including Churchill, remained silent about Soviet aggression and focused on using Poland to start a war against Germany. Hitler knew Stalin was planning to invade Europe and launched a preemptive strike. The Eastern Front became the site of brutal battles, with many Russians surrendering to the Germans. The German army fought to save Europe from communism and received support from Russian volunteers. The Allies, particularly Churchill, deliberately targeted German cities in devastating bombing campaigns, causing immense civilian casualties. The Battle of the Bulge was a turning point, but the Allies delayed Patton's advance to give the Soviets time to conquer Eastern Europe. The war ended with the destruction of German cities and millions of German casualties.

According to historical documentation cited here, the purpose of the attack was to inflict the maximum loss of life on the civilian population, and particularly to kill as many refugees fleeing the Red Army. It was planned and executed by those at the highest levels of the British and American governments, who instructed the Allied Bomber Command to lie to pilots and their crews. At 10 PM on February 13, the first attack wave, consisting of the British number five bomber group, began. This air force, which consisted of 2,000 bombers with additional support craft, dropped over 3,000 high explosive and 700,000 incendiary bombs directly on the city center. Incendiary bombs, described as highly effective for producing maximum loss of human life, were used, with the loads carried by these bombers being 80% incendiary. The primary goal, according to British air commander Sir Arthur Harris, was to set the city well on fire. The fires caused all bodies of water within the city limits, including the Elbe River, to be set ablaze, as white phosphorus was a primary component of the incendiaries. With a chemical temperature of some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, this combustible agent was thrown into every nook of the city. Those unable to bear the torment tossed themselves into the burning waterways, dying in thousands by drowning or burning on the water’s surface. Despite the visibility of marked drop areas containing hospitals, sports stadia, and residential zones, bomber crews obeyed orders and rained down a fiery death upon the inhabitants. Tens of thousands were devoured in this early stage as the incendiaries began hundreds of fires, aided by a stiff wind coalescing into one massive firestorm. Precisely on schedule, three hours after the first attack wave, a second massive armada of British bombers arrived, again loaded almost exclusively with high-volume incendiary bombs. The residents of Dresden, their power systems destroyed in the first raid, had no warning of the second. The timing of the second armada was designed to ensure that a large quantity of surviving civilians would emerge from shelters to escape the city, and to catch firefighters and medical personnel from neighboring towns unawares, both of which occurred, resulting in hundreds of first responders dying needlessly. By 2 AM, Dresden’s burning hulk was visible from over 200 miles away, and the flames would continue to burn for a week. Parts of bodies, fragments of charred clothing, metal scrap, and ash scattered in the surrounding countryside; in some basements, rescue workers found liquefied remains and had to shovel yards of rendered human fat congealed into pools before reconstruction could begin. But the operation was not over, for the following afternoon, on Ash Wednesday, four fifty flying fortresses with P-fifty one fighter support arrived to finish the job. Before this, Dresden had been a fairytale city of spires and cobbled streets. The US raid on February 14 was described as having brought the German people to their knees, and it is claimed that the Mustang fighters, suddenly appearing, fired on everything that moved, including riverbanks and walking civilians. It is stated that, despite efforts by Western authorities to downplay the loss of life, sufficient primary evidence and firsthand accounts entered the historical record before these were scrubbed. The death toll is asserted to be over 150,000, with some estimates as high as 300,000, and it is claimed that, in relative terms, more destruction befell Dresden in a single day than was inflicted on the whole of Great Britain during the entire war.

Stalin oversaw the expulsion of millions of Germans from their homes in Eastern Europe after World War II, resulting in the deaths of around 2 million women and children. Many more Germans died during similar expulsions in other countries. The atrocities committed during these expulsions, including beatings, looting, and starvation, were immense. Western leaders like Winston Churchill turned a blind eye to the suffering of the German population, leading to more deaths in the aftermath of the war than during the conflict itself.

The Red Army invaded Germany in 1944, committing brutal atrocities like rape, torture, and murder. Women and girls of all ages were targeted, even in public places like churches. The Soviet soldiers showed no mercy, assaulting victims repeatedly. The horrors extended to children and the elderly, with no one spared from the violence. The German civilians suffered immensely, with millions falling victim to the cruelty of both Soviet and Western invaders. Germany faced a nightmare of unimaginable proportions during this dark period of history.

Zuby posed a question about what people in Germany were like after 1945. The response: after the occupation of Germany, the Soviets engaged in the biggest mass rape in recorded human history, with the majority of assaults committed in the Soviet occupation zone. Estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2,000,000. According to historian William Hitchcock, in many cases, women were the victims of repeated rapes, some as many as 60 to 70 times. At least a 100,000 women were believed to have been raped in Berlin based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports, with an estimated ten thousand women dying in the aftermath. Female deaths in connection with the rapes in Germany overall are estimated at two hundred and forty thousand. Antony Beaver describes it as the greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history. Soviet soldiers raped German females from eight to 80 years old. The speaker then questions why this isn’t learned about in countless World War II lessons in high school, and notes that if you’re in high school watching, you should ask your history teacher why you don’t know about any of this, anticipating the teacher’s likely response of, oops. Sorry, lol.

After World War II, American General Eisenhower mistreated German prisoners, leading to the deaths of thousands from starvation, neglect, and abuse. The prisoners were denied proper food, shelter, and medical care, with some dying from thirst and disease. Guards even shot prisoners for fun and prevented civilians from helping. Despite the abundance of food in American supply depots, prisoners were starved while excess food was burned. The International Red Cross tried to intervene, but their efforts were blocked by American officers. Eisenhower's cruel treatment of German prisoners resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, far surpassing the casualties of the war itself.

Germany before the war had a high standard of living, with good infrastructure and a strong economy. The 1936 Olympics showcased Germany's advancements, but it was believed that war was inevitable. The video highlights the benefits German citizens enjoyed, such as low-interest loans and debt-free housing. However, after the war, Germany was left devastated, with millions of Germans dying under Allied occupation. The journalist James Buck documented the harsh treatment of German civilians during this time. General Patton expressed his sadness over the destruction of Germany and his concern about the spread of communism. Many of Germany's allies were democracies fighting against communism.

From the Latvian capital Riga, over 200,000 Germans were trapped behind Russian mines. They were determined to hold on to Lebensraum and refused to countenance a retreat. Even so, gradually, the German forces were pushed back to the Baltic Coast. By mid October nineteen forty four, the Germans had been squeezed onto the Kurland Peninsula, West of Rieden. They would remain marooned there for the rest of the war when they eventually surrendered to Soviet forces. Stalin, meanwhile, was already sizing up other territory in Eastern Europe. He could have moved directly west towards Germany. Instead, units of the Red Army moved south in a vast thrust down through the Balkans.

Stalin violated multiple non-aggression pacts and invaded several countries, terrorizing and killing people. The Allies, including Churchill and Roosevelt, did not take action against Stalin's aggression. Hitler believed that Stalin was planning to invade Europe, and documents support this claim. Hitler launched a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union, saving Europe temporarily. The war on the Eastern Front was brutal, with millions of lives lost. Many Russians surrendered to the Germans, viewing them as liberators from Soviet tyranny. The Allies, particularly Churchill, intentionally targeted German cities with devastating bombings, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The war crimes committed by the Allies were largely ignored and remain largely unknown.

Hitler, in his bunker in Berlin, had learned of Mussolini's death, with Eva Braun by his side. They were surrounded by his high command, a situation that had persisted since 01/16/1945. Churchill's bombings of German civilians and the rape of Germany continued non stop, and by 1945 the Germans faced a hopeless situation. The Red Army had reached the River Oder, which stood as the last great natural obstacle before Berlin. Germany would now be surrounded from every frontier. The Soviets reportedly had twice as many men as the Wehrmacht and four times as many tanks. Stalin claimed that he had 6,000,000 men against the remaining 1,000,000 Germans of every unit the Reich could gather. Hitler understood that he was surrounded. Facing certain defeat, foreign volunteers, old men, women, and children prepared for the last fight against hopeless odds. Boys of the Hitler Youth also prepared themselves for the last battle. The only thing that stood between heaven and hell was the remaining German troops. On April 19, Soviet troops reached the Berlin suburbs. Every remaining desperate defender of Germany would be eliminated in house-by-house street fighting. The Red Terror couldn't be haunted anyone. The combat embraced everyone in its battle zone. Hitler's dreams of a free world had been shattered to a million pieces.

After World War II, the denazification process in Germany turned into a brutal purge involving torture, rape, and death. Many Germans were forced to register and faced interrogation, often resulting in false confessions obtained through torture. The Morgenthau Plan aimed to destroy Germany's industry and reduce its population through starvation. The Allied occupation led to widespread suffering, with orphans and starving children struggling to survive. The harsh policies of denazification and non-fraternization further degraded the German population. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union looted German resources, and the United States dismantled German industry and stole valuable assets. The post-war years in Germany were marked by immense suffering and despair.

Latrains or food. One former German POW, Wolfgang Yves, who still resides in Germany, reports that in his subsection of perhaps 10,000 prisoners, 30 to 40 bodies were dragged out every day. A member of the burial work party, Yves says he helped haul the dead from his cage out to the gate of the camp where the bodies were carried by wheelbarrow to several big steel garages. There, Yves and his team stripped the corpses of clothing, snapped off half of each aluminum dog tag, spread the bodies in layers of 15 to 20 with 10 shovelfuls of quick lime over each layer till they were stacked more than a yard high, placed the personal effects in a bag for the Americans, then left. Some of the corpses were dead of gangrene following frostbite. It was an unusually wet cold spring. A dozen or more other prisoners had grown too weak to cling to the log flung across the ditch for a latrine and had fallen off and drowned in the human excrement. Almighty god, please forgive America for what we have done.

Germany before the war had a high standard of living, with benefits like loans for marriage and children. After the war, the city was in ruins, with millions of Germans dying under Allied brutality. General Patton lamented the destruction of a good race and the spread of communism. Women in Berlin faced violence, and allies of Germany fought against communism, including democracies like Finland and Romania.

In February 1945, Stalin traveled to the Black Sea resort of Yalta to attend the most historic of the big three conferences of the war. At the Yalta conference, the plot to reshaping of the postwar world was made. The biggest winner was Stalin. Churchill muttered to Stalin, "We have killed six or 7,000,000 Germans, and probably there would be another million or so killed before the end of the war."

The transcript presents a compilation of eyewitness testimonies and reported documents asserting that German prisoners of war (POWs) in American and French camps after World War II suffered lethal conditions, starvation, exposure, disease, and violent treatment. The speakers consistently describe systemic neglect, punitive policies, and instances of murder or near-murder, arguing that the death toll was high and that authorities at various levels were complicit or negligent. Key witness: Martin Breck - Breck, drafted in 1944, guard and interpreter at a POW camp near Andernach on the Rhine in 1945. - About 50,000 prisoners (men and women in separate enclosure) with no shelter, little clothing, and inadequate latrines; many slept in mud, suffered from exposure, dysentery, and starvation. - He observed prisoners eating grass and weeds in a tin can of soup; medical care was withheld despite protests to officers who claimed higher-up strict orders to ration severely. - He witnessed a captain firing a pistol for target practice at civilian women in the distance, implying cold-blooded brutality and moral contempt. - He notes propaganda from Stars and Stripes that glamorized German camps, allegedly facilitating cruelty by likeness to enemy propaganda. - Breck describes prisoners’ zombie-like states, attempts to escape toward the Rhine, and postwar brutality when transferring prisoners to French labor camps, including beating and killing of staggered prisoners. - He recounts a moment of human connection: a German woman feeding prisoners in a graveyard area, which Breck witnessed before the end of the war, influencing his later philosophical/rel religious interests. - After VE Day, Breck depicts continued brutality, famine, and rapes among German civilians, and the lack of Red Cross aid at camps. - He argues that Allied retaliation and punitive measures mirrored enemy atrocities and advocated speaking out to influence policy and oppose dehumanizing propaganda. Other American eyewitnesses and accounts - Corporal Daniel McConnell: Suffered PTSD from serving at Heilbronn; describes Baker Number 4 as a hospital tent with no equipment, where dying prisoners were gathered for transport, and mass burials by bulldozer were common. - Major General Richard Steinbach (then colonel): Administered camps near Heilbronn; testified that conditions were terrible, with prisoners underweight, ill, and starving; argued Morgenthau Plan policies and Roosevelt’s approval caused starvation and idleness; he ordered remedial action by securing rations and tents, though he was reassigned before conditions improved. - General Withers Alexander Burris (a sixth army commander): Found Heilbronn conditions similarly dire; corroborated Steinbach. - Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Allard: Describes Austrian camps as having only rations provided, with lacking supplies; remarks that POW camps’ living standards compared poorly to other camps. - Colonel James B. Mason and Colonel Charles H. Beasley: Observed late-April 1945 conditions along the Rhine — freezing weather, 100,000 men underfed and exhausted, many dying from hunger, dysentery, and exposure; noted near collapse of the prisoners’ condition. - Captain Ben H. Jackson: Noted the stench and encampment conditions, with severe hunger and disease. - Medical and auxiliary observations by German and French observers: Doctors and French aid workers described moribund POWs, with hospital tents crowded and lacking supplies. A Jewish intelligence lieutenant at Bad Kreuznach questioned why German prisoners were half-starved in Allied cages. - Dr. Joseph Kirsch (French volunteer): Observed moribund German prisoners moved by American ambulances to hospitals with minimal care; hospital roles appeared as morgues rather than care centers. - Charles Pradervan (ICRC delegate) and the ICRC reports (1945–1947): Documented severe undernourishment, illness, and malnutrition in French and Austrian camps; called for increased rations, clothing, and medical supplies; described the situation as “more than alarming.” - Le Monde and Le Figaro correspondents: Noted horrific conditions in French camps, including skeleton-like prisoners, typhus, tuberculosis, and mass deaths; reported incidents of random shootings and beatings, sometimes linked to attempts to escape or as punitive measures. - Ernest Kramer and other German POWs: Confirmed the existence of inhumane holding pens in American camps; described guards’ brutality, lack of food, and poor treatment even after the war’s end. French camps and American–French transition - Reports describe French camps where 900–1,000 calories per day were provided, with tens of thousands of prisoners malnourished; as camps were transferred to French authorities, conditions sometimes improved when humanitarian approaches were implemented (as in Dietersheim under Captain Julian, who increased rations and provided shelter and clothing with external aid from German authorities and the ICRC). - Captain Julian’s improvements reportedly reduced the death rate by more than half by August 1945; his humanitarian approach contrasted with the lethal policies observed elsewhere. - The testimony includes allegations that American policies explicitly aimed to exterminate or starve prisoners in some camps, and that food was sometimes burned or blocked from local civilians as part of punitive measures. Counterpoint and framing - Some witnesses argued that German camps were not treated this way by the Nazis, pointing to the Red Cross inspections and harsher consequences for abuse in German camps, contrasting with Allied practices postwar. - The compilation also references postwar debates among historians, including criticisms of James Back’s Other Losses; yet the testimonies emphasize a pattern of lethal conditions in Western Allied POW camps after the war. Overall, the transcript assembles a broad spectrum of testimonies and contemporaneous reports alleging systemic starvation, exposure, disease, and violent treatment of German POWs by American and French forces after World War II, including specific camp-by-camp observations, individual incidents of murder or brutal treatment, and calls for accountability and humanitarian reform.

After World War II, Germany faced a dark period with the Soviet occupation resulting in mass rapes of German women. Historians estimate up to 2 million women were assaulted, with some enduring repeated rapes. In Berlin alone, around 100,000 women were raped, leading to an estimated 10,000 deaths. Overall, approximately 240,000 women died due to these atrocities. This mass rape is considered the greatest in history. It is shocking that this aspect of history is not widely taught in schools, so students should question why this information is often overlooked.

The Red Army invaded Germany in 1944, committing horrific atrocities like rape, torture, and murder. Women, children, and the elderly were brutally assaulted, with no one spared. The Jewish commissars orchestrated the violence, defiling churches and public spaces. German civilians suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of both Soviet and Western invaders. Millions were killed, raped, and enslaved, marking the beginning of Germany's nightmare.

The transcript presents an extensive compilation of claims from a group of speakers arguing that the established Holocaust narrative is false or exaggerated and that many historical incidents have been misrepresented or fabricated by Allied propaganda, Soviet influence, and Jewish-led organizations. The speakers frame Holocaust revisionism as a legitimate scholarly effort rather than denial, asserting that revisionists do not dispute that Jews and others suffered and died in the war, but dispute the scale, methods, and specifics of extermination. Key asserted points and claims - Holocaust definition and revisionism - The Holocaust is described as a belief that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered primarily by gassing in “shower rooms,” a narrative the speakers say is amplified by Hollywood, media, and schools. A growing movement of scientists, historians, engineers, journalists, and free-speech activists is portrayed as revisionist, though often branded as “Holocaust deniers” to discourage discourse. Revisionists are said not to deny persecution, deprivation of civil rights, deportation, internment, forced labor, or deaths in camps and ghettos, including deaths from disease; they also say that many victims died in ways other than genocide and that many victims’ dignity is not denied. - Internment and civilian camps in the United States - After Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 people of Japanese descent on the Pacific Coast were interned by Executive Order 9066; the text claims this restricted freedoms, required identity cards, and denied compensation or war reparations. The narrative includes accounts of interned individuals describing camp life, guard presence, and harsh conditions. - General wartime devastation and context - The war is described as a conflict that would not have occurred if “international jury” had not declared war on Germany in 1933, with emphasis on typhus, subversion, and crowded camps as drivers of disease and death. The speakers stress that millions died across battlefields, ships, and cities, and that propaganda surrounding German crimes obscures Allied or Soviet misdeeds. - Claims about typhus, gas chambers, and cremation - Typhus epidemics are said to explain many deaths in camps; Cyclone B (hydrogen cyanide) is claimed to have been used for delousing and pest control rather than execution, with several speakers arguing that gas chambers as homicidal devices did not exist or were technically infeasible. They assert there is no scientific proof of gassing, no German documents proving extermination plans, and that cremation and delousing procedures served health purposes rather than execution purposes. - Expert testimonies and forensics are cited (e.g., Leuchter, Rudolf, Lift, Lindsay) to support the claim that the gas chambers could not have functioned as execution facilities, noting technical impossibilities such as lack of explosion-proof features, gasketed doors, or proper gas delivery systems. - Specific camp narratives and testimonies - The camps are described as having been centers of labor, medical care, and even cultural activity, with accounts of weddings, births, nurseries, orchestras, libraries, theater performances, and recreational activities. Some testimonies describe attempts to maintain humanity and morale under harsh conditions, including a piano in Block 1, children’s art, and soccer games. - Several testimonies challenge the image of mass exterminations, claiming instead that most deaths resulted from disease, starvation, and Allied bombing, and that Red Cross and Vatican inquiries found no evidence of homicidal gas chambers. - A number of survivor testimonials are presented as quotations or paraphrases challenging the notion of mass murder in gas chambers, with some individuals denying personal knowledge of gas chambers or mass killings. - Documentary, legal, and scholarly disputes - The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) and other revisionist scholars are described as measuring and challenging the established narrative, sometimes facing legal or financial pressure. The transcript cites various researchers and forensics teams (e.g., Leuchter, Krakov, Farison, Groff, Farison, Larsson) as having concluded that homicidal gassings were not technically feasible in the cited facilities. - It is claimed that many postwar figures and witnesses provided testimonies or stories later recognized as unreliable or fabricated, including famous Holocaust survivors whose accounts are presented as inconsistent or false. Names and cases (e.g., Herman Rosenblatt, Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel) are invoked to illustrate alleged fraud or manipulation, though these claims contradict well-established historical records. - Propaganda, media, and the so-called “Holocaust industry” - The text asserts that the Holocaust narrative is used as a tool to enforce globalist policy, promote multiculturalism, and suppress nationalist sentiments among white Europeans. It claims that ongoing denazification efforts, legal penalties for questioning the Holocaust, and control over media and online platforms are designed to suppress dissent and promote a one-sided portrayal. - There is a claim that “atrocity propaganda” and black propaganda have been used to shape public perception, with references to Sefton Delmer and Allied psychological warfare, and accusations that postwar trials and media representations were heavily biased or manipulated. - Population counts, mortality figures, and documentary evidence - Several sections contest the veracity of the commonly cited death tolls, the reliability of Red Cross and other international communications, and the authenticity of diaries and eyewitness testimonies. The transcript asserts that the Nuremberg trials did not use physical or technical evidence to establish gas chamber existence and that some documents used as proof were mistranslated or contextualized wrongly. - The piece repeatedly emphasizes that millions of Jews did not die in the camps, that the “6,000,000” figure is a symbolic or religious number, and that high-profile Holocaust narratives are part of a constructed orthodoxy. - Final framing - The speakers position Holocaust revisionism as a defense of free speech and historical inquiry, arguing that questioning the official narrative is essential to truth. They claim laws against denial suppress inquiry and that truth should stand on its own merits without legal protection. They also suggest that conflicting accounts, forged documents, and political agendas have shaped the popular memory of World War II. Note on structure and tone - The transcript interweaves personal testimonials, expert opinions, documentary references, and polemical assertions. It repeatedly contrasts “revisionists” with conventional accounts, often asserting that mainstream portrayals are driven by propaganda, financial interests, or political goals. The overall thrust is to challenge the conventional understanding of the Holocaust, question the evidentiary basis for extermination claims, and highlight alleged inconsistencies in survivor narratives and official records.

The German army and nation suffered immensely during and after WWI due to crippling sanctions and widespread chaos. The election of the National Socialists brought economic revival and renewed hope, but external forces, driven by envy and fear, sought to dismantle Germany, leading to WWII. The war resulted in unprecedented destruction and mass atrocities against Germans, a truth suppressed for over 70 years. Allied terror bombing decimated German cities, exemplified by the firestorm in Hamburg and the obliteration of Dresden, resulting in mass civilian casualties. In the East, the Red Army committed horrific acts of rape, torture, and murder against German civilians. Even after Germany's defeat, the Allies subjected the German people to further suffering, including mass imprisonment, starvation, and expulsion from their homes.

Two days after the end of the second World War, 42 defenseless men, women, and children are lined up to be shot. Their moment of execution is captured in this rare home movie. Their only crime is that they happen to speak German. Their murder is part of a little known story about the fate of millions of ethnic Germans after the war. They are the casualties of a peace that will prove anarchic, vengeful, and bloody. Victory celebrations and dancing in the streets, the traditional images we associate with the end of the second World War. In reality, peace was a violent and chaotic process. For the defeated Germans, peace meant dislocation. It meant revenge You got to spread and rape. To the maximum. Bring gloom down to the minimum. Have faith. It meant the ethnic cleansing of over 12,000,000 Germans living in Eastern Europe.

With the May 1945 capitulation, Eisenhower controlled over 5,000,000 soldiers. 'the American desk general decided to kill disarmed Germans in peace.' By creating his own prisoner category—'DEFs, disarmed enemy forces'—he circumvented the Geneva Convention, allowing secret deals. Before the war's end, thousands of German POWs died in American captivity from starvation, neglect, and outright murder. After surrender, deaths accelerated: 'tens of thousands died of starvation and thirst,' and 'hundreds of thousands more perished from overcrowding and disease.' The Red Cross tried to intercede, but trains with supplies were turned back; camp commanders cited 'Forget the convention, You haven't any rights.' No fewer than 800,000 German prisoners died in the American and French death camps; estimates place the toll at upwards of 1,500,000. Thus in peace did Eisenhower murder at least 10 times the number of German soldiers than were killed on the whole Western Front during the whole of the war.

The transcript asserts that Stalin’s plan to dominate Eastern Europe was aided by Eisenhower and Marshall due to their focus on invading Europe from England rather than advancing from the European “soft underbelly.” It claims that by July 1944, communists had advanced into Poland and Germany. It attributes the instigation of Soviet Red Army violence against German civilians to Ilya Ehrenberg, described as Stalin’s Jewish chief propagandist and a prominent member of the Soviet-sponsored Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. According to the speaker, Ehrenberg urged mass rape and murder of German civilians as the Red Army approached German territory. The transcript cites Ehrenberg’s involvement with propaganda against Germans, including gloating statements about German women and references to Jews “around Roosevelt,” asserting that Ehrenberg sought extermination and genocide of the entire German people. It notes that Ehrenberg encouraged mass rape and killing, with leaflets declaring Germans “are not human beings” and containing messages such as “Nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses.” It mentions leaflets air dropped on troops near Danzig, allegedly composed by Ehrenberg and signed by Stalin, with the directive: “Kill them all.” The text quotes orders and exhortations to Soviet troops: “Men, old men, children and women, after you have amused yourself with them. Kill,” “Nothing in Germany is guiltless, neither the living nor the yet unborn,” and “Break the racial pride of the German woman. Take her as your legitimate booty.” It further claims that a massive violence followed, described as “an unimaginable orgy of violence and rape” that would become one of the ghastliest episodes in human history. Finally, the transcript asserts a quantitative outcome: “At least 2,000,000 German women young and old were gang raped, sodomized and beaten often in view of their children or family members.”