I've said before that it's hard to feel "sorry" for anyone at this stage of the war. The increasing cycle of brutality has burned out so much ordinary human decency that we depend upon for our day-to-day living.
I feel sorry for the German babies who froze to death in their prams while their mothers tried to flee over the icy roads of Pomerania and East Prussia to escape the Soviet hordes. Three years ago, I felt sorry for the Russian babies who starved to death while their parents tried to scratch out an existence living in earthen dugouts in occupied Smolensk. Brutality only beget more brutality.
The best can be said at this point is that there is one more hard does of brutality to mete out, and then it will be over.
I hear ya.
My understanding while hazy is that assorted pockets of Germans in the East experienced very hard doses of brutality in the first couple of weeks of May.