HIST 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Scorched Earth, Bombing Of Cologne In World War Ii
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Ussr offense: soviets practices scorched earth, russia"s refused to follow the rules of international behavior for war so the germans took this as a signal for barbarianism and committed criminal treatment against civilians. In poland two million germans were expelled: as russians moved towards germany the rape of german women by russian soldiers increased exponentially, the volga germans were either killed or forced to flee back to germany. In czechoslovakia 50,000 german civilians were murdered after liberation. This involved drowning small children and public gang-rapes of german women: jew slave labor in forced labor camps in occupied poland. Ussr home front: agricultural production was interrupted- grain harvests left in the fields that later caused hunger, large number of factories were evacuated- 1523 factories dismantled and shipped to the. Production technology was moved, along with the blueprints and their management, engineering staffs and skilled labour. : strong influence on soviet citizens because their territory was in destruction consistently.
