Post-war Germany.Indeed I am appalled by the reference in your February/March issue to babies in postwar Berlin 'born as a result of rape by the Allies and the Russians'. Stalin's order was that all German women were to be raped (a footnote in Solzenitsyn's Gulag Gulag, system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym [GULag] for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD, and finally the KGB). Archipelago testifies to this). But whilst there may have been rapes by Allied soldiers, they were on nothing like this scale. Having as a schoolboy nursed a profound hatred of the Germans after the bombing of Southampton during World War II, I repented in tears at a Moral Re-Armament Moral Re-Armament: see Buchman, Frank N. D. meeting in Bonn in the late 1950s. Later my uncle, who was in the RAF during the war, left me a legacy of 2,500 [pounds sterling]. 1,250 [pounds sterling] was exactly the cost of a stone, with my name inscribed in·scribe tr.v. in·scribed, in·scrib·ing, in·scribes 1. a. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface. b. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters. , for the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche, the largest church in Dresden, after the city's near destruction in the Allied bombing of St Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. , 1945. from Richard Murray, Horsham, UK |
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