THE DARK REALITY: Female POWs Hid From Soviet Liberators - And Pretended to Be German Instead скачать в хорошем качестве

THE DARK REALITY: Female POWs Hid From Soviet Liberators - And Pretended to Be German Instead

Discover the rarely told story of why Allied female POWs—British nurses, American medical personnel, and French resistance fighters—deliberately hid from Soviet forces during the 1945 liberation of Germany, destroyed their identification papers, disguised themselves as German refugees, and fled westward away from their supposed rescuers. This meticulously researched account reveals how female POWs held under German Geneva Convention protections faced their greatest danger not from their Wehrmacht captors but from Red Army forces during the Soviet advance through Eastern Europe. From Lieutenant Reba Whittle's testimony about American nurses hiding in cellars, to British nurse Margaret Bowes leading twenty women westward disguised as German civilians for weeks, to Soviet female POWs facing treatment as traitors under Stalin's Order No. 270, this account documents the impossible choices women faced when enemy captivity under international law proved safer than liberation without such protections, and why these survivors often remained silent for decades rather than complicate the narrative of Allied victory with the uncomfortable reality that for female POWs in 1945, the question wasn't whether to be liberated, but by whom. #ww2 #history #war #pow