“The Russians were magnificent conquerors. They did the things a legion of Genghis Kahn might have done if they had forced the surrender of this wonderful prize.”


“Berlin, as we saw it from a jeep, was a series of impressions…the strange twisted mouth of a horse that had died by shrapnel, the brilliant grin of a Russian girl directing traffic…”




After two years of occupation, what would the German people think of these foreign army men living among them? Click here and find out…


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