The Savage Peace

The underlying theme throughout this travesty is the over arching sense of entitlement in these peoples voices. "Don't they know I am German?" The same voices that followed German troops into these countries and claimed it as their living space, while the troops herded the former owners off to their deaths.

We've all heard about the horrors committed by Russian soldiers during and after World War II. The brutal mass rapes, even of Jewish women hiding in Germany. There was no sense of honor in their actions. They acted more like predators than soldiers. And disturbingly, similar behavior is still being reported today in Ukraine.

What truly shocked me in this documentary, though, were the stories that rarely get told. Civilians torturing and killing children like they were nothing more than animals. I expected to hear about things like beatings, public humiliation, or maybe the destruction of ethnic German homes. But the cruelty described here is beyond anything I could have imagined.

The testimonies from survivors are absolutely gut wrenching. Even decades later, the trauma is still raw, like it all happened just yesterday. This isn't an easy documentary to sit through. You need to brace yourself because it's heavy, disturbing, and unforgettable.

As it said towards the end of the documentary, all this information is little known outside of Germany. And how apt the expression..History is written by the victor's.. truly is when you see man's inhumanity to man writ large here.

As someone born in post war Britain, it was a total shock to see how savagely rough justice was handed out, without any regard for law or due process.

It was depressing to see how war had reduced humanity to act like this in revenge, making the victorious no better than those they had vanquished. There was no moral high ground in victory here, only a hollowed out empty feeling.

The information and video feeds of this film are produced from a time immediately after the end of WWII and particularly after Nazi occupation has ended. As with everything in history, it is easiest to put goggles on based on today's standards. It must be remembered that none of us were there and none of us suffered under the Nazi occupation.

I believe this documentary to be well filmed, well edited and well narrated. Along with the other documentaries such as "Einsatzgruppen", this film shows the horrors of what humans can do to one another. I believe it to be important as it indeed shows a different side of the attrocities committed by humankind.

The unspeakable horror of 7 million deaths at the hands of Germans during World War II it's no better or worse than what happened to the Germans by the Serbs and Russians. It is not trumped or negated by the 20 million that Stalin killed. It is not trumped nor negated by the pole pot killing Fields in Cambodia. Murder of innocents (Some members of my close family) is abhorrent.

I grew up with this story, and felt a degree of vindication by it being told well here. No one is exonerated. Everyone is capable! Ellie Wiesel told us he was shocked by the fact at Eichman's trial he was not a monster, and just like us.

I've seen many WW II concentration camp documentaries, and visited Dachau twice. This movie was different in that it made No attempt to disguise or hide the brutality, rather ruffled in it. That made it horrible with a twist!

Well done, heretofore largely unknown and ignored.....