What a depressed day!

QQ was stolen, although it was quickly recovered, but many friends were disturbed by the payment on Alipay, and they were temporarily uncertain about the loss, and strongly despised and cursed the number thief!!

The symptoms still did not improve, in the morning I went to the nearest Provincial People's Hospital, blood tests, CT, injections at every turn, I felt too unreliable, so I went to the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the afternoon, the doctor looked and heard and asked, confirmed that it was the external wind cold, and the internal heat, and prescribed five packs of Chinese medicine to get it. I feel like it's still a good Chinese doctor...... I should have listened to my mother's advice to study medicine!

In the decoction, I hope to get better as soon as possible.

Apologies again and a big thank you for your support!

They said...... There were people who survived the concentration camps who saw my family and others being taken away by the Germans, and each of these people came back alive, so they probably ......."

Dinah curled up in the corner of the bed and choked, this was the first time Lynn had seen her so vulnerable, and her heart suddenly felt infinitely sour.

Turning his head to look out the window, on the beach, the surrendered German soldiers were still trying to clear mines, and not far away on the seawall, civilians were sitting or standing in twos and twos. Lynn didn't particularly want to know the answer to the attitude of these Danes about the former vaunted and now pitiful Germans. He had the impression that Denmark was a country with a unique history. Originally inhabited by only indigenous people, the Germanic people quickly swept the region, and the Vikings took root here. Around the 10th century AD, the Vikings established an unprecedentedly powerful (but fragile) kingdom, and King Canute I of Denmark even became the co-lord of England, Norway, and Denmark, but this glory came and went quickly, and after his death, the country was soon divided, but Denmark remained a great power, not only controlling the area of present-day Sweden for a time, but also occupying Norway for a long time. The Danish army also participated in many wars in Europe, including the Great Northern War, which decided whether Russia could go to the sea.

By the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark had allied itself with France and was attacked by the anti-French coalition, especially the British, and after the defeat of the Napoleonic Empire, Denmark lost Norway, but still maintained some influence over Schleswig-Holstein in North Germany. The defeat in the Prussian-Danish War brought these two regions into what would become the German Empire, and after World War I, Denmark recovered the Danish-majority region of Northern Schleswig, thus forming the approximate territory of the present-day Danish state.

Until the German invasion in 1940, this small country was still a quiet and peaceful peach blossom paradise like a place, King Christian X was quite prestigious, in the face of the increasingly thick war clouds in Europe, many Danes hoped that they could still avoid the catastrophe as they did in World War I, but the reality always ran counter to people's good wishes, on April 9, 1940, the German [***] team invaded Denmark, and the country's small army was simply unprepared for this, German [***] The troops occupied it at a very small cost (accounts range from 12 to 56 men), and the German minister sent a memorandum to the Danish political axe, declaring: "...... Germany has no intention of interfering with the territorial integrity or political readiness of Denmark now and in the future. "In view of the German pledge not to interfere, the Danish Prime Minister also issued a statement on 9 April, in which he acknowledged the fact of occupation in the face of protests, ordered the people to refrain from any resistance, and called on them to observe order and exercise restraint. This attitude was undoubtedly rather peculiar, but given the prestige of the king, most Danes accepted this reality.

The Danes were at least theoretically equal to the Germans in terms of sovereignty compared to the other German-occupied countries, and the King and Cabinet were more passively confrontational with the Germans, but with the victory of the German war machine, Denmark had to make some concessions. In July 1940, the pro-German Skavenius became Foreign Minister, and he issued a declaration in favor of "cooperation" between Denmark and Germany. In November 1941, at his urging, Denmark acceded to the Convention. However, the controversy over the issue strongly stimulated the Danes and greatly increased their stigma, and many Danish diplomats abroad declared their independence from Danish politics as representatives of the Free Danish Movement, a war organization composed mainly of expatriates, after the Danish representative in the United States had taken the initiative to conclude a treaty with the United States that would allow the United States to use bases on the island of Danish Greenland. The Danish political axe felt compelled to remove him from office and did not recognize the agreement (although they later acquiesced in it). In addition, with some 800,000 tons of Danish ships in the service of the Allies, and a number of politicians who had fled from Denmark, the resistance abroad was constantly strengthened, and although the presence of the king and the legitimate political axe in Denmark made the Resistance's statement of appeal to the domestic population for revolt not work optimally, this increase in power soon became strained by the Germans.

In the early days of the occupation, Danish resistance was sporadic and weak, so much so that the Germans could consider it a "model protectorate", but from the summer of 1942 onwards, as Germany's hopes of victory in the war diminished and foreign command increased, the Danish resistance increased, and despite calls from the Danish Prime Minister, trade union leaders, and even the king to stop the "sabotage", the situation did not improve. The Germans took two measures, on the one hand, they appointed Dr. Werner Best as German plenipotentiary in order to strengthen their control over the country, and on the other hand, they forced the king to appoint the pro-German Skavenius as prime minister in November 1942.

In the parliamentary elections held in March 1943 (which can be described as an "unprecedented" concession by the Germans to the occupied territories), the Danish Nazi Party won only about 2% of the vote, and the incompetence of its leader Fritz Klusen soon gave up their support for the party in favor of militarily named organizations such as Martinsen's "Free Danish Army" (Danish troops fighting on the Eastern Front) and the "Sharbael Regiment" At the same time, as the Germans increasingly exploited Danish labor and resources, and the Danes learned about the fatigue of the German war machine, the Allied bombardment of the continent intensified, and so on, it contributed to a further increase in resistance and sabotage. In early August 1943, the Germans handed the Danish political axe an ultimatum, demanding the imposition of martial law, the death penalty for those who carried sabotage and carrying weapons, and even demanded that the saboteurs be tried in German courts in accordance with German law, but the Danish political axe refused this demand. So the Germans took matters into their own hands, they declared martial law, dissolved the political axe and the parliament, the king effectively became a prisoner of war, and the army and navy officers were all detained. The Danish permanent officials were responsible for the administrative work, and the Germans assumed direct control over Denmark above them. However, it also united the previously divided resistance movement and formed the "Freedom Committee", which advocated concentrating all forces on the destruction of important industrial and transportation undertakings serving German interests.

In October 1943, the Germans began an arrest campaign for Danish Jews, but because the news had long since been leaked and the anti-Semitic ideology in Denmark was far less intense, the vast majority of Jews were protected and fled to Sweden, where fewer than 500 people were escorted. This was followed by the declaration of an end of the state of emergency in October 1943, but as the resistance grew, the Germans became increasingly frustrated with the situation. In June 1944, Best announced a curfew, which undoubtedly greatly angered the Danes, who were clearly an open insult to the longest daylight in the Nordic country, and on June 30 a general strike broke out, demanding the removal of the Schaal Castle Corps, the lifting of the curfew, the resumption of supplies and communications, and guarantees of no retaliation against the strikers. On 4 July, in opposition from his military colleagues and economic advisers, and in view of the unfavorable war situation in Germany at the time, Best accepted the strikers' demands, but this did not last long.

Subsequently, the Gestapo, which had played only a minor role in Denmark, took control of the power, and in early August they took over the judiciary in Denmark from the German Court. Pank became the de facto ruler, but the resistance was not suppressed. After the Danish police were effectively eliminated, the situation in Denmark became increasingly out of control, and despite the constant repression by the Germans, the resistance could not be extinguished. In the final moments of the war, the situation in Denmark was also quite bad, especially the lack of food and coal, and the chaos caused by the arrival of German refugees and wounded in Denmark, as well as the mental and psychological state of the Germans themselves at the end of the war, made the Danes feel the pain for perhaps the first time during the war. Despite this, the Danes did not have a single "great uprising", as in some countries, but in five months in 1945, the Danish partisans carried out 1,301 acts of sabotage, which is enough to show the anger and determination of the Danes for such a small country.

After spending the whole hour in silence, Dinah finally looked up with tears in her eyes to look at her husband, who was from Denmark but belonged to the Germanic race, and the four months of newlywed life brought her a lot of joy and longing, but one day when she returned to her homeland, she found that she had to face these cruel realities, and perhaps even more difficult for her to accept, her husband not only got Adolf. Hitler's title of Honorary Knight of the Reich was still working hard for the politically dead Reich, and even became a powerful impetus for its revival.

"Such a thing...... Are we going to go on? ”

With a heartache that seemed to be cut by a knife, Lynn looked up and replied for a long time, "Yes." ”

"Why?" Dinah's face was full of tears, and it was this atmosphere that made Lynn begin to regret why she didn't find a reason to prevaricate and avoid the tricky territory of Denmark.

"The arrow is off the bow, and there is no turning back." Lynn replied in a deep voice.

There was a long silence again.

"How's your family doing?" Dinah asked in a soft, soft voice.

Lynn turned his head sideways: "I don't know, there is no news of them after the war...... I think that as a Germanic family who contributed two men to the German team, they would have a very difficult time in Denmark and might be deported back to Germany along with the German refugees. ”

"Then you don't want to know, and you don't want to help them with your strength?" Dinah seems to be talking about her stubborn husband in a sideways way.

Lynn lowered his head: "Yes, but ...... Now may not be the time. Although the war is over, there are still many people in this world who are suffering, and my family is only one of the insignificant ones. I hope to save them all through my efforts, and the road is difficult and long, full of dangers along the way, even contrary to my original vision, but I finally stood here, standing in the mire and looking up at the stars. ”

Dinah may not have understood this, but she did not ask or refute it, and without having eaten dinner, she fell asleep wrapped in a futon. Lynn sat beside her for a long time without saying a word, and when she saw that she was asleep, she got up and walked out of the room.

Downstairs, including "Aunt Manli's nephew", there were four men whom they had never known before. Except for one of the people who seemed to be the leader, the other three were not more than thirty years old, and it seems that they have persevered until now with full faith.

As for Lynn, they only called them "chiefs", and it seems that they don't know the specific identities of these people.

Lynn, who was in a complicated mood, shook hands with them one by one, and then said, "Guys, here's the ...... I guess I feel lonely all the time! ”

The eldest, with a sparse beard, about thirty, smiled.

"It's nothing."

Lynn nodded, "You are the real warriors. ”

The four of them looked at each other, as if greatly encouraged, and each had a different smile on their faces.

"Aunt Manli's nephew" said: "At least we know that we are not forgotten and abandoned, and that we are still fighting for something." ”

These words sounded like the heroic words of the French or Polish underground resistance groups during the war, but now the role has changed, but the taste makes Lynn feel so sad and lost.

Another young man asked Lynn with a smile: "Sir, I heard that the most powerful weapon of the Americans, the atomic bomb, leaked the technology a while ago, and we obtained it!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" The oldest intelligence officer whispered.

Lynn reached out and patted the young man on the shoulder: "Like you, we have been working hard, in every way. There is still a long way to go, and we only have a steely conviction that is eternal. ”

"Well said!" "Aunt Manli's nephew" responded enthusiastically, "Sir, we must have a plan to free those trapped companions!" I have an older brother and a younger brother who are now trapped in a prisoner of war camp for the Soviets! ”

Looking at the expressions of the other three, Lynn knew that this question must have been discussed privately for a long time. In the plan submitted to the Führer, the rescue of prisoners of war did exist, but it was only until the initial establishment of the Nordic industrial regions that there was no reason to take advantage of the management loopholes of the Allied [***] team to "buy" German prisoners of war with strong labor in a private transaction. As things stand, the first factories won't be able to start until at least the spring when the snow and ice begin to melt.

In order not to disappoint the intelligence officers too much, Lynn replied, "The plan is indeed there, and it is sufficient!" If you have any suggestions, or if you know more about this, please let them know and help us. ”

The leading intelligence officer motioned for everyone to sit down, and asked the youngest-looking young man with curly blond hair to pour everyone a glass of wine, and then spoke:

"It is said that ...... In just two months after the end of the war, the number of German soldiers entering the Allied prisoner of war camps had swelled from more than two million at the beginning to six or seven million, and those who had taken up arms, even some children and the elderly, were transported away in droves as prisoners of war. About half of them remained in prisoner-of-war camps established by Britain, the United States, or France on German soil, while others were sent to the Soviet Union, France, and Britain. By contrast, the fate of those who went to Siberia for forced labor was the most tragic, and it was widely believed that they would never return to Europe, not even their bones. ”

This is chilling to hear, and compared to such rumors, Lynn's access to historical sources is more credible. In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviets wiped out more than 300,000 German troops and captured more than 90,000 prisoners. However, after the war, only 5,000 of them returned to Germany, and the rest died in Soviet prisoner of war camps in Siberia for various reasons. One of the lucky 5,000 later recalled, "We were driven by Soviet soldiers to the prisoner of war camp on both legs, and if anyone was left behind, the Soviet soldiers would shoot him immediately." After arriving at the prisoner of war camp, we ate once every three days, and many people died every day, and from February 2 to early March, more than 50,000 German prisoners died of typhoid fever and 36,000 survived by Soviet military trains to Siberia for labor reform, and half of them died on the way, and after arriving in Siberia, we were forced to work in the weather of minus 60 degrees Celsius, and the mortality rate was very high, and soon only 6,000 people remained."

The 90,000 men were lucky compared to another example - in the Battle of Cherkasy in 1943, when the Germans broke through, they left behind all 2,000 wounded and some paramedics to become prisoners of the Soviet Red Army. After the war, the Soviets announced that when the Soviet assault force arrived, they found that all the German wounded had been shot and died, and concluded that the Germans had killed all their own wounded when they retreated. These two thousand German soldiers who wanted to be prisoners of war were not eligible. The communiqué of the Soviets was unanimously refuted by the German survivors in the encirclement. I wonder if this counts as a massacre? Anyway, no one is blamed for the death of these two thousand, and these two thousand lives are really dead in vain.

Later, when the Red Army advanced towards the German mainland, Soviet tanks would crush all refugee vehicles or wagons that stood in their way, shooting with machine guns all the fugitives they encountered. "Slaughter the fugitives without leaving any stone unturned" - In Upper Silesia, Germany, an officer of an infantry company of the Soviet Red Army once found the body of a Soviet patrol soldier on the street of a village, and ordered the massacre of all the inhabitants of the village. Soviet submarines also caused the deadliest shipwreck in human history to date, sinking the passenger ship "William Gustloff" and killing at least 5,300 people, most of them women and children. Russian historians insist to this day that "there were six thousand Nazis on board, of whom three thousand seven hundred were submariners."

Although the Soviets are not good birds, they are really a drop in the bucket when compared to the United States, a fighter for human rights. The Germans tried in every possible way to flee to the West and surrender to the American and British forces, but what fate awaited these German soldiers?

In recent years, various data in the field of history have also emerged in an endless stream, and some of them have been quickly recognized. Some have caused an uproar and numerous controversies. The data cited in James Buckche's book Other Losses fall into the latter category. The book claims that around the end of World War II, nearly one million German armed forces prisoners of war died as a result of starvation and deliberate abuse by U.S. troops in the prisoner-of-war camps of the so-called 'liberated' European continent. The shock caused by this figure in the Western historical circles can be imagined, because according to the view accepted by most Western historians today, even in the Soviet prisoner of war camps that they portrayed as an "evil empire", more than 18 million civilians and more than 8.6 million soldiers died in the war with the Nazis, so in the hands of the Russians, who had a deep blood feud with the Germans, only about 500,000 of the total 3.8 million (2.5 million captured during the war) German prisoners of war died. The identity of 363343 of them was finally confirmed in 1999. Today, in the "humanitarian prisoner of war camps" of the free, boiled, human, and rich 'great American liberators', in the hands of American GIs, who are said to be very 'sunny', very kind, and relatively small in their losses (on the European continent, the American army and non-combat deaths have killed a total of 150,000 people), and the Germans have no hatred, there are more than one million people who have been tortured to death. What made them even more embarrassed was that in the post-war Western historical writings, the Americans' 'humanitarian prisoner of war camps' had attracted a large number of German troops on the Eastern Front. The slogan of the Germans 'I'd rather surrender to the Americans than be a prisoner of Russia' was once a topic of conversation among Western apologists. But Bakche's writings made all these myths disappear like a big bubble that has been inflated to the extreme. Ironically, the brutal Nazis were much more humane to their American brothers. Of the more than 90,000 Americans captured by the Germans, only 1,684 died, but the only few incidents of the German massacre of American prisoners of war have been repeatedly hyped up in Western historical materials.

The leading intelligence officer quoted the rumors he had heard: "In the makeshift camp, our brothers were placed on the loess slopes in the open air, without tents to shelter from the wind and rain and the sun, without shade, and without houses, and the strong prisoners of war dug holes by hand, curled up in the holes like ground mice, and the weak lay in the open air, and at night it was too cold, so a bunch of people huddled together to keep each other warm, and sometimes it rained heavily, and the soil in the earth cave loosened and collapsed, and the unfortunate ones were buried alive in it." And that's not the main problem. The main problem was that they did not have access to food and water, and the situation at that time was not a lack of food - in fact, the US military had a large stockpile of food at the food headquarters in Europe, and the International Red Cross would even store 100,000 tons of food in neighboring Switzerland, but hunger was spreading in the prisoner of war camps, and the surrendered German officers and soldiers were extremely short of food, eating one meal a day, only one-tenth the number of American soldiers. Many people quickly lose weight to the point where they are skinny and bone-like. They did not get enough water, and sometimes the river was close to the camp, but even the dirty water the prisoners could not drink. Diseases soon spread in the German prisoner-of-war camps, mainly dysentery, typhoid fever and gangrene and pneumonia. There are also "extreme malnutrition" and "exhaustion" who have died. Since there were no toilets in the camps, patients suffering from dysentery and typhoid fever had to defecate in barbed wire when they were able to move, and those who could not have to be dealt with on the spot. In the absence of medical treatment, life "disappeared automatically" - this was the main cause of the mass death of prisoners of war! ”

In a real war, it is impossible for one side of the war to give the same treatment to the prisoners of war and its own armed forces in many cases, and it is the most basic obligation of the signatories of the Neva Convention to give the other side the basic means of subsistence and not to kill and torture them. It should be said that the British treated prisoners in accordance with the Neiva Convention: German prisoners of war enjoyed the same basic living conditions as the British army in terms of food, accommodation, and other basic living conditions, and they were able to communicate with their families, and regular visits by the Red Cross to the prisoner of war camps were not prohibited. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then commander of the Allied High Command in Europe and later president of the United States, was largely dismissive of the conservative British approach. The American was determined to give Europeans a good lesson in the "new thinking" of American prisoners of war. To this end, in April 1945, Eisenhower made the following suggestion: "German prisoners of war can be divided into two types: first, surrendered prisoners of war. The second type is the disarmed hostile armed forces. The first category of persons may be dealt with in accordance with the Neiva Prisoners of War Convention. The second category of persons is still treated as a hostile armed force. In other words, the second group has become a disarmed hostile armed force that is not entitled to prisoner of war treatment. According to Eisenhower's interpretation, these Germans could not be killed even if they were killed.

Many people interpret the origin of Eisenhower's "new thinking" as a strong stimulus to what he saw and heard in the liberated Nazi concentration camps. But not many of the Nazi camp dead were Americans, and the national contradictions between the United States and Germany did not seem to be so great as to deliberately mistreat enemy prisoners of war. The attitude of the Germans towards American prisoners of war also does not help to explain Eisenhower's move. The United States has always been a country with an excessively strong sense of national superiority. In this so-called "equal" and "melting pot of all ethnic groups", it is not new for people of different nationalities and races to be strictly distinguished. But what is not known to everyone is that Hitler, as a propagator of extreme racial ideology, once praised the racial pattern of the United States, and even cited it as a model. The only thing that displeased him was that in the United States, rich Jews were also included in the upper race, and American money worship was something that Hitler, who was born in Europe, could not let go.

Racism certainly does not fully explain America's "new thinking about prisoners of war." In fact, the Germans were also dominant in the United States, but when Eisenhower entered the corpse-strewn Nazi concentration camps, a new sense of extreme superiority, that is, ideological extreme superiority, emerged: we came from the "open, free, fraternity" of the United States, and this was the place of brutal Nazi rule, and we were ideologically superior to them, and we were superior to them. They are animals, and we are the superior human beings. Human beings naturally do whatever they want with animals.

The final result of this ideological superiority based on racial superiority is, to paraphrase an American veteran, "Nothing but Americans is human." In the eyes of Americans, whose sense of superiority has swelled to the extreme, not only brutal Nazism, but even as long as it has a different ideology and civilization from the United States, it is all evil. And it is natural to use the most evil methods to deal with those so-called "evils". German prisoners of war became the criticized victims of this sense of superiority, and Eisenhower's suggestion was soon implemented. By August 1945, about three months after the end of the war in Europe, almost all German prisoners of war had become "disarmed hostile armed forces." The conservative British could not adapt to this "new thinking" of the "human rights defenders", and the Americans had to go their own way. As a result, the vast majority of German prisoners of war, who were considered by the International Red Cross to be in good health, except for the wounded, in May 1945, soon became dying and starving.

Lynn vaguely remembers a memoir written by a guard at an American prisoner-of-war camp in a prisoner-of-war camp near the Rhine that saw more than 50,000 German prisoners trapped in barbed wire in an unsheltered field, forced to sleep on muddy ground in wet, rainy and cold weather. The well-fed American soldiers, watching the Germans eat soup made of weeds while sleeping like animals in their own dung without toilets, began to die slowly and miserably. When some American soldiers threw food over the barbed wire, the American officers even threatened to shoot these "undisciplined" comrades-in-arms and subordinates. And when the German women threw food at the German prisoners of war on the other side of the barbed wire, the American [***] officers played the real thing: they would not stop until all the bullets in the guns were fired, which they called "target training". The means of the Nazi German army on the Eastern Front against Soviet prisoners of war and Soviet civilians who dared to feed them, the American [***] people had no teachers to understand the plenum.

These conditions were not uncommon in numerous German prisoner of war camps for Americans, but were extremely common. The different American POW camps depicted by the many witnesses are almost all carved out of a mold: the German POWs were herded into the open air on a loess slope fenced with barbed wire, and were given neither houses nor tents to shelter them from the wind and sun, nor shaded by trees, or even blankets. In most cases, German prisoners of war had to dig holes in the ground by hand, and then curl up like ground mice to avoid the storm, wind and rain. Those who are too weak to dig holes can only be exposed to the wind and rain in the open air, and the only solution to resist the bone-chilling cold is to huddle together in a bunch of people to warm each other's body temperatures. But those who have holes are sometimes not to be envied, and when it rains heavily, the soil of the holes loosens and collapses, and they are buried alive inside.

In such a prisoner-of-war camp, where there are no toilets or even manure pits, hygiene is naturally an unattainable luxury. The "scene" of German prisoners of war sleeping in their dung depicted by the American guard above is also everywhere. Two doctors who had worked in the U.S. military's medical team in Europe had similar recollections: "About 100,000 ragged people huddled knee-deep in the mud, dirty, emaciated, emaciated, staring blankly...... "Lying on the mud were often covered in their own stool." Under such circumstances, amines such as dysentery, typhoid, gangrene and pneumonia spread rapidly in the prisoner-of-war camps. And the deadliest killer, starvation, sent many German prisoners of war to the Yellow Springs Road. An 18-year-old German prisoner of war later recalled with embarbishment: "We lived on a very crowded open dirt slope surrounded by barbed wire, and we were unusually short of food, eating only one meal a day, only one-tenth the number of American soldiers. Many people quickly lose weight to the point where they are skinny and bone-like. I told an American official that they had violated the Neiva Convention by doing so, and he replied to me: The Neiva Convention has nothing to do with you, and you have no rights. "Not only did the Americans not provide food, they even deprived the prisoners of war of their right to drink water. Even the dirty water in the river next to the POW camp was often out of reach for German POWs.

The death of a large number of German prisoners of war was inevitable due to poor sanitary conditions, epidemic diseases, and hostile Americans[***] who did not provide medicine and treatment, or even to the subsistence of food and drinking water. Another German prisoner of war later sadly recalled: "There were 10,000 people in my prisoner of war camp, and 30 to 40 bodies were carried out of the camp every day. I used to carry corpses, and we carried them out of the camp gate on trolleys, undressed them, and stacked them in tin wagons. ”

A large number of prisoners of war eventually disappeared and their related archival materials were destroyed. In this case, it is difficult for us to judge James? Buckche's claim that "one million prisoners of war" died is not accurate, but the fact that a large number of German prisoners of war died as a result of the "new thinking of prisoners of war" in the United States is unequivocal.

The shrewd Americans soon found a way to make money from these German prisoners of war, and they began to loot the POWs for what they thought was valuable, or "souvenirs," with life-saving food and cigarettes that were more valuable than food for some German prisoners of war. The same was true outside the camps, where the German man complained to the American occupation forces about how the Russians had killed his boy and raped German women, while offering his wife and daughter in exchange for the much-needed three melons and two dates in the harsh conditions. A German woman once angrily accused the Russian soldiers of leaving only a cigarette case after raping her (according to a Soviet veteran, only a can of meat was usually given). In the West, of course, the situation is different, and the wealthy Americans can give the Germans a lot, a lot, a lot.

(To be continued)