When the war ends, she is then charged by the soviets with being a collaborator and given a 15 year sentence to a Siberian gulag. There the horrors continue, with little to eat, hard labor digging coal and being abused by the male prisoners, but she is able to find friendships with the women she is imprisoned with and help work in the hospitals and ambulance.
Sitting in our warm and cozy homes it is hard to imagine what women like this went through during the war, and wonder if we would have had the strength to survive. 5/5
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Yes, unfortunately, being 'liberated' by the Russians at the end of the war meant just exchanging one prison for another. What a cruel disappointment for so many.
I have been watching quite a few docs. recently on both wars. It made one sick to the stomach to watch much of what happened. Just as the war 11 ended, the women of the closest village were made to go and see the prison camp. The prisoners that were still alive... well many didn’t even survive leaving and the bodies of the dead were unbelievable. These German women were laughing and waving to the cameras on the way. Just horrible to watch but on the way home they looked broken down and really ill. It was no act. My daughter went over there 30 years ago to do a post doctorate and married a German scientist. Unfortunately I can not say any more online.
I just know I would not have had the strength to survive what some did. They must have had a comaraderie to help,each other. What evil Hitler had in him. I wonder how many people know that he had applied to go t Art School and was turned down. That gave him a breakdown where he was blind for a year and in a mental home. If he had been accepted that war would probably never have started.
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