World War II: Post War Atrocities by the Victorious Allied Nations

[Rev.Cambeul]

German Chancellor Adenauer Complained of 'Exceedingly Harsh' Treatment of Imprisoned Nazi Leaders, Newly Released Documents Reveal
The Guardian (Britain)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/29/nazi-war-criminals-spandau-prison-west-germany-national-archives

Extract: Nazi war criminals held in the infamous Spandau prison after the Second World War were treated "exceedingly harshly", and could not sleep because of constant security searchlights, according to Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's first postwar chancellor, in a letter released by the [British] National Archives. Inmates at the Berlin jail - the running of which was shared on monthly rotation between the Allied powers of UK, US, France and Soviet Union - were also prohibited from conversing or reading, Adenauer complained to Allied officials in the letter, dated 21 June 1950 ... Adenauer's intervention on behalf of the prisoners, which at that time included Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess, is among a cache of documents from the Allied administration of Berlin that have been declassified.


Nuremberg: Woe to the Vanquished
Review by Daniel W. Michaels | Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p38_Michaels.html

Extract: In writing this "intimate look at the origins and conduct" of the 1945-1946 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Irving has relied heavily on many hitherto neglected papers and documents ... As Irving shows [in his book, Nuremberg: The Last Battle], the victorious Allies who sat in judgment at Nuremberg were guilty of many of the same actions or crimes for which they tried (and hanged) the German defendants. Indeed, the Allies very probably outdid the Germans in crimes and atrocities ... In some cases, the Nuremberg defendants were charged with or held guilty of crimes that were actually committed by the Allies ... Irving tells the story of the Nuremberg Tribunal with great style and verve, painting a broad and vivid portrait.


The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau
Robert Clive | Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v10/v10p237_Clive.html

Extract: That atrocities were committed by the Allies against Germans and non-combatant civilians on both the Eastern and Western fronts is not often acknowledged. In large measure this reflects the fact that "victors write the history." ... POWs, whether Germans or Axis allies, were often shot out of hand, or shortly after they had been questioned. At Feodosiya, on the Black Sea, wounded soldiers were drenched with water and then left on the beaches to freeze to death ... When the Red Army invaded German territory in late 1944, civilians who had been unable to flee before their advance were condemned to undergo a regime of ferocious brutality. At such towns as Goldap, Gumbinnen, and Nemmersdorf, even children were raped before being murdered by Russian soldiers.


How the Allies Treated German PoWs
Michael Walsh
http://euromanuk.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-allies-treated-german-pows.html

Extract: The scale of abuse of prisoners-of-war was contrary to the Geneva and other conventions to which Britain and its allies were signatories. As late as 1948, three years after the war's end, the British Government's treatment of its foreign prisoners was subject to International Red Cross scrutiny and international condemnation. The IRC threatened to bring the British government before international tribunals for abuse and illegal enslavement ... Tragically even civilians were illegally held, deported and murdered in the tens of thousands whilst the evil killers responsible have so far evaded justice.