Quotes from Frederick Taylor

Altogether it is reckoned that around 1.9 million German women were raped by Soviet soldiers in the final months of the war and those immediately following the peace.12

The two of them inspected a street barricade being built by the city's would-be defenders and decided that it would take the approaching Soviet tanks fifteen minutes to demolish it – 'fourteen minutes for the tank crew to stop laughing, and one minute to brush it aside'.

At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German prisoners of war.

Hitler's own people 'liberated' from him? The Viennese and other Austrians, so many of whom had ecstatically welcomed the annexation of the country to the Reich in March 1938, now suddenly so patriotic for the Red-and-White, so insistent that they were not actually 'German' at all?

Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. 'Wir sind kein Negervolk' ('We are not blacks') the fiery former concentration-camp inmate told Annan.

The Long Telegram'.

The post-war Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten was known, with typical dark Berlin wit, as the 'Tomb of the Unknown Rapist'.

This was the "raid which went horribly right"...

conspirational tradecraft

The most important issues are the recovery and removal of oil seeds, oil cake, and only then the removal of grain.