“Lost Kin” is a good story built around a shocking reality — that American and British soldiers (and perhaps more of the “winners” in WWII Germany) were part of the repatriation of a million or more people to Soviet-held territory. An action that led to untold numbers of murders and indescribable suffering. It’s no wonder so many returning American soldiers refused to talk about what they’d seen and done in the war.
Buy this book, or borrow it somewhere, and read it. You’ll learn much more than this one horrific piece of history. Steve Anderson also gives us a good look at what post-war Germany, occupied by the Allied side’s Military Governments was like…for both sides.
“Lost Kin” is a good story built around a shocking reality — that American and British soldiers (and perhaps more of the “winners” in WWII Germany) were part of the repatriation of a million or more people to Soviet-held territory. An action that led to untold numbers of murders and indescribable suffering. It’s no wonder so many returning American soldiers refused to talk about what they’d seen and done in the war.
Buy this book, or borrow it somewhere, and read it. You’ll learn much more than this one horrific piece of history. Steve Anderson also gives us a good look at what post-war Germany, occupied by the Allied side’s Military Governments was like…for both sides.
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