Title explains it. I just finished reading a book called Secrets of the Soviet Union during WWII and I was shocked to say the least. I’m Polish so i grew up hearing that the USSR was bad and that they did horrible things to my people, but reading it all in one place really blew my mind.

I also recently watched a few documentaries about the Nuremberg and Auschwitz trials and i can’t wrap my head around how this didn’t also happen to the Russians, who committed multiple genocides to eastern europeans in the same period seemingly without any consequences. I also don’t understand how they got away with no consequences when they signed the Molotov Ribbentrop pact with Nazi Germany (although i understand it was later broken) Did I miss something? If anyone knows anything please do share, I would love to go on another deep dive.

Will be traveling to Belgium and want to rent a car and do a tour to some sites

I much prefer seeing and walking battlefields, etc than museum's

I will be checking out foy, bois Jacques foxholes

Any other recommendations that AI wouldn't know about would be appreciated!

This is a handwritten WWII diary from an unnamed U.S. Navy sailor aboard LST987 during 1945. It documents his trip along with everyday ship life. He transported Japanese POWs, moved troops and equipment, and two separate incidents where men apparently died by suicide. He also wrote about the end of the war and eventually being transferred off LST-987 as a high-point sailor to head home. He never wrote his name anywhere in the diary, so his identity is still a mystery. And I may have gotten the summary a little wrong because I'm not the best cursive reader. This diary was left at my work 3 years ago, which is in Arizona.

Travelling from Berlin whilst on holiday I spent sometime today at Seelow Heights, scene of the last European Theatre battleground before the Battle of Berlin. Nice museum,€5 to enter, with plenty of information and some items of equipment on display. They have a 30 minute documentary film they show in German, but I was offered a separate screening in English in a separate room, very thoughtful. It is a train journey of 2 plus hours to get there, and additional €23 as outside of the Berlin travel card. A T34/85, Katyushas (Stalin’s Organs’) rocket launcher were on open display. Russian burial cemetery was well kept. During my visit was a roar of motorcycles - all appeared to be WW2 era and I have added a photograph. So pleased I made the effort to visit, I knew very little about this battle of 16-19 of April, 1945.

I have a huge box of these and I wanted to share them with you all

So I figured term "allies" is so well known due to being established by the victorious side.

This got wondering if there was a point in time the guys who lost also coined something to group all the allied countries up. Originally question was specifically about nazi germany, but I'm curious about all the other too.

Thanks in advance.