After Berlin fell, soldiers went through all the hospitals and checked every patient for the SS tattoo. Those with them got a bayonet.
SS members were hunted and killed throughout Germany after the fall. Some were hung upside down from lampposts and set on fire.
Hundreds of thousands of German soldiers died in POW camps after the war.
It was open season on German women after the surrender.
Germans underwent forced relocations out of Poland.
The killing did not stop at the surrender, it slowly faded over the next year.
Nearly all WW2 documentaries end with the suicide of Hitler, and maybe the Nuremburg trials. What else happened was savage and not well covered.
The Germans had a saying - enjoy the war, because after it will be hell.
"After the Reich", NacDonogh
"An Eye For An Eye", Sack
"Crimes and Mercies", Bacque
"Embracing Defeat", Dower
"Gruesome Harvest", Keeling
"Justice At Nuremburg", Conot
"Other Losses", Bacque
"The Nuremburg Trial", Tusa
"The Long Road Home", Shephard
After Berlin fell, soldiers went through all the hospitals and checked every patient for the SS tattoo. Those with them got a bayonet.
SS members were hunted and killed throughout Germany after the fall. Some were hung upside down from lampposts and set on fire.
Hundreds of thousands of German soldiers died in POW camps after the war.
It was open season on German women after the surrender.
Germans underwent forced relocations out of Poland.
The killing did not stop at the surrender, it slowly faded over the next year.
Nearly all WW2 documentaries end with the suicide of Hitler, and maybe the Nuremburg trials. What else happened was savage and not well covered.
The Germans had a saying - enjoy the war, because after it will be hell.