Protagonist
2007-11-04 09:36:07 UTC
REVENGE AT NEUSTETTIN (February, 1945)
On the 16th of February, soldiers of the First White Russian Army
occupied the town of Neustettin just inside the German border with
Poland. In the town was the 'Wilmsee' camp of the German R.A.D. (Reich
Women's Labour Service). In the huts were some 500 uniformed girls of
the RAD. They were taken to the foreign workers barracks at the local
iron foundry. All were considered by the Russians to be members of an
illegal army. In an office set up by the Russian commissar groups of
girls were brought in and ordered to undress. Two men (believed to be
Poles) then entered and grabbing one of the girls bent her backwards
over the edge of a table and then proceeded to cut off her breasts
before the eyes of the others. Her screams were accompanied by cheers
and howls of approval from the Russians. The same fate awaited all the
others each procedure becoming ever more cruel. More girls were brought
in continually and out in the courtyard hundreds were clubbed to death,
only the prettiest being led to the commissars office for torture and
death. A few days later when a German tank unit from Cottbus temporarily
recaptured the town they were utterly devastated by what they saw.
Survivors told of what they had seen. Mothers had to witness their ten
and twelve year old daughters being raped by up to twenty soldiers, the
daughters in turn witnessing their mothers being raped, even their
grandmothers. In most houses in the town nearly every room contained
naked and dead women with the Swastika symbol crudely carved on their
abdomens. No mercy was shown to the women and girls of Neustettin. It is
estimated that about 2,000 girls that had been in the RAD and BDM
(League of German Girls) camps in and around the town were raped and
murdered in the few days of the Soviet occupation.
On the 16th of February, soldiers of the First White Russian Army
occupied the town of Neustettin just inside the German border with
Poland. In the town was the 'Wilmsee' camp of the German R.A.D. (Reich
Women's Labour Service). In the huts were some 500 uniformed girls of
the RAD. They were taken to the foreign workers barracks at the local
iron foundry. All were considered by the Russians to be members of an
illegal army. In an office set up by the Russian commissar groups of
girls were brought in and ordered to undress. Two men (believed to be
Poles) then entered and grabbing one of the girls bent her backwards
over the edge of a table and then proceeded to cut off her breasts
before the eyes of the others. Her screams were accompanied by cheers
and howls of approval from the Russians. The same fate awaited all the
others each procedure becoming ever more cruel. More girls were brought
in continually and out in the courtyard hundreds were clubbed to death,
only the prettiest being led to the commissars office for torture and
death. A few days later when a German tank unit from Cottbus temporarily
recaptured the town they were utterly devastated by what they saw.
Survivors told of what they had seen. Mothers had to witness their ten
and twelve year old daughters being raped by up to twenty soldiers, the
daughters in turn witnessing their mothers being raped, even their
grandmothers. In most houses in the town nearly every room contained
naked and dead women with the Swastika symbol crudely carved on their
abdomens. No mercy was shown to the women and girls of Neustettin. It is
estimated that about 2,000 girls that had been in the RAD and BDM
(League of German Girls) camps in and around the town were raped and
murdered in the few days of the Soviet occupation.
