For tens of millions of Europeans, Victory Day in World War II was not the end of a nightmare, but the beginning of the land's pristine wilderness. Maybe it sounds like a nightmare, but in fact, this is exactly what happened in Europe for a while after the end of World War II.
For tens of millions of germans, especially, Victory Day in Europe was not the end of a nightmare, but the beginning of the whole of Germany falling into a state of primitive barbarism.
German prisoners after defeat
And war always brings endless pain to women, not only because their sons, husbands, and fathers will die in war, but more importantly, after the defeat of a country, the soldiers of the victorious country will enter the country with great power, and the women there will become the targets of its revenge.
For example, France lost its main source of income in World War II, and in order to survive, some French women had to bow their heads to curry favor with the German officers. So after the war these French women, the French put them on trial, they were put on the list of collaborators, the French, in order to vent their resentment, they let all the women gather in the street, shaved their hair in public and let them be abused by everyone.
Crying woman
French men chose to give in in the war, and for those women who fell in love with the German army, they could only silently endure this unclean love.
These women are labeled as betrayers of the country, so the rest of them can be bullied at will, even if they do too much, no one will ask. Many people still laugh at the French practice of the time: men lose battles but let women shave their hair.
But compared with the german women after the war, those French women are luckier! Perhaps attacking the Soviet Union was Hitler's biggest mistake in World War II. At the beginning, the Soviet Union was indeed beaten very badly, but then the Soviet Red Army counterattacked berlin in one breath, it can be said that it had crippled Germany, and took away everything that could be taken, and the German men were either dead or captured, then the German women suffered.
Hitler had said before committing suicide that if his army could not achieve final victory, he and Germany as a whole would fall into an endless abyss.
The Soviets also vented their hatred for German men on these poor German women. The pain that Hitler brought to German women after World War II, but Hitler had committed suicide by then, he could not see, this was the huge price of his "belligerence", only the suffering of German women.
After the Soviet Union conquered Berlin, many German women recalled the situation at that time: wherever the army went, they not only burned and looted, they went door to door to collect German women, from underage girls to middle-aged and older women, to carry out collective rape and gang rape. Many women died of atrocities, while others committed suicide because they could not bear the humiliation. The remaining young and powerful were taken back to Siberia to do hard labor and became living war reparations.
Post-war German woman
These German women became victims of the reparations of the Nazis, but these German women also showed another side of indomitability. Germany's economic recovery after World War II actually depended on women, because most of the young men in Germany died on the battlefield, and the rest of the remaining in Germany were some old, weak, sick and disabled.
After the war, the ratio of men to women in Germany reached a level of 10:16, and with the extreme shortage of labor in Germany, the post-war reconstruction had to rely on women. Germany's pre-war economy was about 65 percent that of the United States, and by 1945 there was less than a quarter of the United States left. Reconstruction work can only be undertaken by women aged 15-50.
Women cleaning the streets of Germany
The first step in the reconstruction was to clear the rubble first, and it was calculated that if 40,000 people were used to clean it up, it would take 25 years to clean it up, which was a very difficult first step in the reconstruction of Germany. The German women did not count these at all, and the concept of dedication to the country developed from the Third Reich made them work with enthusiasm.
The women took up the tools of their family's labor and began an attack on the rubble of the city. Amazingly, The German women have created a miracle, cleaning up the rubble in two months, and it has to be said that countless German women, like men, also have a very strong spirit! I have to say that these "pits" left by German men were filled in so quickly, and I really want to thank the women in my country!
Cleaning up the elderly at work
For a long time after the war, in order to develop the German economy, German women successfully shouldered the burden of the most difficult years, and participated in social work for a long time like men, making great contributions to Germany's economic revival.
I wonder if Hitler could have imagined that when such a tragic end came, it would be the German women he had not cared much about.