>“They lifted the Home Army’s barricades on Wola Street by marching Poles in front of them and forcing them to do the work, using women and children as human shields in the meantime, and raping some of the women.
>The men of the Dirlewanger Brigade burned down three hospitals with patients inside. At one hospital, wounded Germans who were being treated by Polish doctors and nurses asked that no harm come to the poles. This was not to be. The men of the Dirlewanger Brigade killed the Polish wounded. They brought the nurses back to camp that evening, as was the custom: each night selected women would be whipped by officers and then gang-raped before being murdered. To the accompaniment of flute music, the men raised a gallows, and then hanged the doctors and the naked nurses.”
– Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, describing the atrocities during the Warsaw Uprising.
The Warsaw Uprising was just one of countless atrocities across the Eastern Front. Hitler’s legions, and to a smaller extent Stalin’s, would kill twenty-six million civilians in four years, the vast majority of them Soviets (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians) and Poles.
Poland’s Jewish population was annihilated. Ukraine’s Jewish population was decimated.
Is the eastern front of ww2 the most brutal battlefront in the history of man?
Pic 16, holy fuck.
Operation Bagration doesn’t get talked about enough in US schools. Often they mention Stalingrad but that’s it.
The Germans lost more soldiers during Operation Bagration than the Battle of Stalingrad. Around 500,000 casualties, Army Group Center was decimated with 27 divisions mauled, and 31 Generals killed or captured. It gets overshadowed because it was happening around the same time as Operation Overlord.
But Operation Bagration and Operation Overlord happening around the same time? Between 950,000 to 1 million casualties total. The German High Command had to be pale with dread as the casualty numbers came in. Very bad June-August for the Nazis.
That Stalingrad Ferry photo is mislabeled. those are Soviet Pe-2s
War. War never changes.
Listened to all of Dan Carlin’s ‘Ghosts of the Ostfront’ podcast episodes a couple weeks back while I’m at work. The Eastern Front was absolutely horrific and a lot of it had to do with the fact that you had both Hitler and Stalin refusing their General’s wanting to retreat from any land they had so it really was just an absolute brutal meat grinder in places like Stalingrad.
I’ve only read books that could barely come close to helping me paint a picture of the pure violence this part of the world saw. All the documentaries, YouTube, and black and white films don’t do enough to really show how massive these battles were and how hateful the soldiers were to each other.
The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig depicts really well the brutality of the Eastern front, but be warned it is pretty detailed in the gory stuff.
My grandpa was forced -edit: not as a child- from his farm in Poland to a Soviet work camp in Kazahkstan. My grandma was bit by a soviet dog during a tank battle on her farm. Fuck the soviet union and fuck the nazis.
Antony Beevor’s ‘The Second World War’ is nightmare fuel. It’s an incomprehensible part of history to anyone living now.
Savage
Tactically speaking what an absolute error by Germany and Hitlers inner circle.
The numbers of casualties and dead boggle the mind.
Thank you for sharing these. A window into the past like this is something special
These casualty counts are absolutely staggering. My god.
You know what blows my mind? We know what war does to us and how fucking pointless it is and yet we still didnt learn.. Terrible world we live in..
I don’t know? What about the battles of old? 3-400 yrs ago with thousands of men hacking and slicing each other to pieces up close? That’s brutal.
Even further back? Ancient conquests of man with hundreds of thousands being slaughtered by invaders?
WWII was brutal for sure. But not the most brutal.
4th image is my favorite.
We don’t usually get a sense of the sheer scale of mass of men and armor that went to war on the eastern front.
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>“They lifted the Home Army’s barricades on Wola Street by marching Poles in front of them and forcing them to do the work, using women and children as human shields in the meantime, and raping some of the women.
>The men of the Dirlewanger Brigade burned down three hospitals with patients inside. At one hospital, wounded Germans who were being treated by Polish doctors and nurses asked that no harm come to the poles. This was not to be. The men of the Dirlewanger Brigade killed the Polish wounded. They brought the nurses back to camp that evening, as was the custom: each night selected women would be whipped by officers and then gang-raped before being murdered. To the accompaniment of flute music, the men raised a gallows, and then hanged the doctors and the naked nurses.”
– Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, describing the atrocities during the Warsaw Uprising.
The Warsaw Uprising was just one of countless atrocities across the Eastern Front. Hitler’s legions, and to a smaller extent Stalin’s, would kill twenty-six million civilians in four years, the vast majority of them Soviets (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians) and Poles.
Poland’s Jewish population was annihilated. Ukraine’s Jewish population was decimated.
Is the eastern front of ww2 the most brutal battlefront in the history of man?
Pic 16, holy fuck.
Operation Bagration doesn’t get talked about enough in US schools. Often they mention Stalingrad but that’s it.
The Germans lost more soldiers during Operation Bagration than the Battle of Stalingrad. Around 500,000 casualties, Army Group Center was decimated with 27 divisions mauled, and 31 Generals killed or captured. It gets overshadowed because it was happening around the same time as Operation Overlord.
But Operation Bagration and Operation Overlord happening around the same time? Between 950,000 to 1 million casualties total. The German High Command had to be pale with dread as the casualty numbers came in. Very bad June-August for the Nazis.
That Stalingrad Ferry photo is mislabeled. those are Soviet Pe-2s
War. War never changes.
Listened to all of Dan Carlin’s ‘Ghosts of the Ostfront’ podcast episodes a couple weeks back while I’m at work. The Eastern Front was absolutely horrific and a lot of it had to do with the fact that you had both Hitler and Stalin refusing their General’s wanting to retreat from any land they had so it really was just an absolute brutal meat grinder in places like Stalingrad.
I’ve only read books that could barely come close to helping me paint a picture of the pure violence this part of the world saw. All the documentaries, YouTube, and black and white films don’t do enough to really show how massive these battles were and how hateful the soldiers were to each other.
The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig depicts really well the brutality of the Eastern front, but be warned it is pretty detailed in the gory stuff.
My grandpa was forced -edit: not as a child- from his farm in Poland to a Soviet work camp in Kazahkstan. My grandma was bit by a soviet dog during a tank battle on her farm. Fuck the soviet union and fuck the nazis.
Antony Beevor’s ‘The Second World War’ is nightmare fuel. It’s an incomprehensible part of history to anyone living now.
Savage
Tactically speaking what an absolute error by Germany and Hitlers inner circle.
The numbers of casualties and dead boggle the mind.
Thank you for sharing these. A window into the past like this is something special
These casualty counts are absolutely staggering. My god.
You know what blows my mind? We know what war does to us and how fucking pointless it is and yet we still didnt learn.. Terrible world we live in..
I don’t know? What about the battles of old? 3-400 yrs ago with thousands of men hacking and slicing each other to pieces up close? That’s brutal.
Even further back? Ancient conquests of man with hundreds of thousands being slaughtered by invaders?
WWII was brutal for sure. But not the most brutal.
4th image is my favorite.
We don’t usually get a sense of the sheer scale of mass of men and armor that went to war on the eastern front.
I want the d day footage I was promised
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