Posted on 05/10/2015 12:34:26 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Events are being held in many countries to mark 70 years since the end of World War II in Europe on May 8, 1945, but in fact the last large-scale engagement of the conflict began three days after the Nazi capitulation. More than a thousand people, mostly German soldiers, were killed in a largely forgotten battle against U.S. and Soviet troops plus Czech irregulars on May 11-12, 1945. (RFE/RL)
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Thanks for posting that. Somehow I had never heard of it.
The fighting didn’t stop the day Germany surrendered. In some places it went on for years, especially the partisan movements in the USSR and eastern Europe. Some of the greatest atrocities happened after the war supposedly ended, but since most of the victims were German civilians, history hasn’t paid much attention. As the saying goes, the winners write the history books.
There wee a number of enemy unit surrenders after VE Day, and VJ Day.
One of the last surrenders of a Japanese garrison occurred in December 1945.
Some Japanese units which surrendered to the British and Dutch were subsequently maintained under arms with their own Japanese officers to serve against the Malaysian and Indonesian insurgencies.
The Germans didn’t want to surrender to the Russians? Well, after what they did to Russia, and the evidence of all those concentration camps - screw them.
Even Soviet POW-s liberated by the Brits and Americans didn’t want to be released to Soviets and for good reason.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v1/v1n4p371_lutton.html
“During the summer of 1944 the British began to ship thousands of Russians from POW and refugee camps to the USSR. When informed of their destination, many of the prisoners committed suicide. The Foreign Office did what it could to suppress news of the suicides because, warned Patrick Dean, “these suicides might possibly cause political trouble [in Britain].”
British officers who delivered prisoners to Soviet ports, such as Murmansk and Odessa, witnessed NKVD execution squads murder Russians as they left ship. Responding to a plea that mercy be shown to those who did not wish to return to the Soviet Union, Eden wrote that the “provisions of the Crimean [Yalta] Agreement” had to be upheld, for “we cannot afford to be sentimental.””
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