German reprisals

World War II double standard

By Michael HoffmanFrom a review of the book After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (2009) by Giles MacDonogh:"This absorbing study of the Allied occupation of Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1949 shows that the end of WWII by no means ended the suffering. A vengeful Red Army visited on German women an ordeal of mass rape, while looting the Soviet occupation zone of almost everything of value, from watches to factories.