Some of the German-haters will be here shortly to say your mother deserved to be gang-raped and murdered by the glorious Red Army. Count on it.
No, few people deserved the fates that befell them during the Second World War. However, the Russians could legitimately be said to have been inflamed by German behavior in Russia.
A. J. Leibling, reporting from post war Berlin, described the Red Army as a mob, poorly organized and almost completely undisciplined except in the most rudimentary and brutish way.