Need some WW2 Book Reco's

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: ergeorge
Not sure whether it was worse being in the pacific facing the Japanese, or being a german on the eastern front during & after they were over run by the soviets. There's a reason everybody wanted to surrender to the western forces. The russians were awful. My therapist was a young girl in Berlin at the end of the war. Sweetest old lady you'll ever meet. But don't mention russians around her. That and she suffers flashbacks if she hears a radial engine plane fly over.

You almost can't blame the Russians for being so vicious towards the Germans. They deserved it (not the civilians, I know)

So very true. The German army showed no compassion towards the Russians (most notably the wicked SS lining up civilians and shooting them after having made them dig their own grave, for instance), so it's little wonder the Russians would unabatedly seek retribution. Also the fact that the Germans invaded Russia and not the other way around.

Exactly. They got what they deserved. Was it not the Russian civilians who were bombed, starved, and hit with artillery for ~900 days in Leningrad?