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“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of…

— Andrei Cherny

“Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.”

— Keith Lowe

“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”

— Andrei Cherny

“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain absolute power.…

— Adam Hochschild

“In the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, NKVD officers recorded 682,691 executions of supposed enemies of the state, most of them peasants or…

— Timothy Snyder

“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than two hundred…

— Daniel James Brown

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the…

— Heinrich Himmler

“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the opening of…

— Archie Brown

“Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.”

— William T. Vollmann

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

— Konrad Adenauer

“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,…

— Liaquat Ahamed

“It was typical of U.S. strategists, then and later, to leave European, North African, and Asian casualties entirely out of account in weighing the…

— Daniel Ellsberg