[rxh4n1]

“the Soviets and to a lesser extent the French did take numerous factories.”

That’s an understatement. By some of the eyewitness accounts, the Soviets stripped Germany of everything that wasn’t nailed down, and much that was. They even stripped the plumbing out of houses.

[Wallace T.]

I don't think the British and American forces were entirely clean but in comparison to the Soviets, they were saints. The stories about mass starvation in U.S. run camps for German POWs tend to take the focus away from the mass looting and millions of rapes committed by the Communists. Additionally, over 11 million ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia by the Communist governments imposed on those countries by Stalin. Over a million of the expelled people died, an expulsion that make our Trail of Tears look like a Sunday school picnic.