The lost woman 1945

During the Soviet advance into the Sudetenlands, Germans were targeted for expulsion if not extermination. Despite the mercy and leniency of the III Reich and the autonomy granted to the Reich protectorates of Bohemia and Morovia, the Czechs unleashed a wave of bestial and grizzly violence against the Sudeten Germans. What once was home to 3 million Germans would become the scene of one of the worst slaughters in history. Germans were expeled in the most brutish and horrific manner possible. Beatings, robing, torture, rape and murder were carried out in a spontaneous outburst of pure hatred. It is said that half a million Sudeten Germans died from this and the rest were forced to flee. What once was the heavily German Sudeten land changed forever, with only a view towns left today. The voice heard in the video is a Russian poem, written by Marina Ivanovna Tschastaeva

How many of them fell into this abyss,
Scatter away!
The day will come when I will disappear
From the surface of the earth.

Everything that sang and fought
Beamed and torn.
And the green of my eyes, and a gentle voice,
And gold hair.

And there will be life with her daily bread,
With the forgetfulness of the day.
And everything will be - as if under the sky
And there was me!

Changeable as children in every mine,
And so briefly angry
Loved the hour when the wood in the fireplace
Become ash.

The cello, and cavalcades in the thicket,
And the bell in the village ...
- Me, so alive and real
On gentle land!

To all of you - to me, who knew nothing in any way,
Aliens and yours?! -
I am demanding faith
And asking for love.

And day and night, both in writing and orally:
For truth yes and no
For being so often too sad
And only twenty years old

For me the direct inevitability -
Forgiveness of insults
For all my unbridled tenderness
And too proud look

For the speed of rapid events,
For the truth, for the game ...
- Listen! - Still love me
For the fact that I will die.

Less we forget