11/07/2020 · In the beginning of the Great Patriotic War there were 33.5 thousands ethnic Germans serving in the Red Army. The vast majority of these people were called up from the Volga German Republic. Beginning from September 1941 the Soviet government began to withdraw Germans from the Soviet armed forces.

27/05/2021 · This nasty story began much earlier, with Goebbels’ propaganda, when it was announced to the population that the Red Army was brutally raping all German women between the ages of 8 to 80 years. And the people were really intimidated to the limit, to the extent that Nazi party activists firstly killed their families and then themselves.

By June 22, 1941, the Red Army had 15,464 howitzers of all types, all of them new designs and produced after 1930. The German army had 10,810 howitzers by June 1, 1941. However, those howitzers had to be divided among several fronts, including the African one. Most of the German howitzers were old models developed during World War I or even before it.

08/01/2022 · The Germans were sure that the Red Army had been almost finished. The initial period of Operation Barbarossa was a real nightmare for the Red Army. Over a course of several months, the Wehrmacht ...

The use of German tanks in Red army captured Pz.IV F1 and Pz.III J medium tanks pressed to service by Soviet troops During the war, the Soviets captured large numbers of enemy armoured vehicles, mostly PzKpfw.III , PzKpfw.IV (Russian designation T-3 and T-4), PzKpfw38(t) (called Prague) and different self-propelled guns (called "Artshturm").

As the Red Army started its offensive toward Berlin during the spring of 1945, thousands of Germans from the east tried to cross the Oder River and flee westward, but there were too many, and many were trapped as they waited to be allowed to cross.

01/05/2002 · One stated that "many Germans declare that all German women in East Prussia who stayed behind were raped by Red Army soldiers". Numerous examples of gang rape were given - "girls under 18 and old ...

10/03/2018 · Between the months of January and August of 1945, Germany saw the largest incident of mass rape known in history, where an estimated two million German women were raped by the Soviet Red Army ...