After the defeat of Germany, the price paid was also huge. The country was divided into two halves and a lot of territory was ceded. The aborigines in the ceded area were all confiscated of their property, insulted at the same time, sent to the territory of new Germany, left their homes, and lost their property. They hardly knew how to survive.
World War II made most adult men in Germany victims or prisoners. On the streets of Berlin, almost all the men you can see are old or disabled. In that year, 2.62 million Soviet soldiers captured by Germany, 6.5438+0.78 million died in German prison camps. Soviet troops hit back at German soldiers. After taking away 2.5 million prisoners, they were extremely abused and forced to work hard in Siberia. Finally, 6.5438+0.38 million German soldiers died in Soviet prison camps. By the time the rest of the prisoners came back, it was already after Stalin's death. Most of these people are disabled and have lost their ability to work.
All the industrial equipment that Germans were proud of was taken away by the Soviet Union, including all the steel raw materials they could take away, even bicycle wheels and rails. Countless German women became playthings of the Soviet Red Army, and130,000 women were defiled in Berlin alone. A large number of women commit suicide because they can't stand the shame, and some girls who are pregnant because of rape have to kill their children.
Regardless of the German soldiers who died on the battlefield, it took many years for the survivors to get out of the shadow left by the war. Their hatred for Hitler lies in the disaster he brought to the survivors? Family destruction, physical and mental injury, loss of national identity and pride.
German middle school textbooks spent one and a half semesters studying the history of World War II. Their textbooks acknowledge Hitler's military expansion and slaughter and call defeat liberation. Auschwitz concentration camp holds various commemorative activities every year. The Germans actively compensated the victims of the war, and the huge compensation allowed Germany to pay debts for Hitler's crimes.
Today, the Germans have gradually come out of the shadow brought by Hitler. Most Germans are very hostile to Americans, but rarely take the initiative to mention Hitler in non-academic discussions. Most of the feelings of the new generation of Germans towards Hitler are embarrassed and mixed with contempt, and their recognition and confidence in their own country, Germany, has gradually recovered. This mental journey is really difficult.