KillerMan91
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This is incorrect, this happened mainly because the Soviet army was an undisciplined mess and what do you think happen when officers of an army do not try to stop undisciplined men from reprehensible actions? Exactly.
It wasn't just a "revenge pillage and rape" it was just soldiers doing what they wanted because they knew they can.
And that undiscipline was probably caused by officers that didn't care what happened to german civilians because they fricking hated germans for what they had done. At least partially. I mean pretty much every soviet soldier probably knew someone that was killed/raped by germans considering the insane soviet death toll. .