One of the worst maritime disasters that seemed to never have happened

So you'd have no problem with the Israeli airforce bombing Jedwabne, Kielce, Krakow, etc etc?

As for rapes in Poland it wasnt that bad, women had to be watched of course and avoid larger groups but rule of a thumb was that russian troops got a bullet for raping non-German locals in Poland.

The problem is two-fold, one Germans really let loose in Russia and two, Russians are a partly asian culture given that their very foundations come from Mongols, they as a nation and society do not follow the same civilisational standards as central or western Europe.

f a thumb was that russian troops got a bullet for raping non-German locals in Poland.

when did you hear that? i doubt it very much.

I read an account by Radek Sikorski about his Grandma (I think) almost being raped together with some other German woman in his book Full Circle, and there wasn’t much they could do about it, besides hiding and being surrounded by a lots of Polish men.

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That night (30 April), the Russian army arrived. Rather than being liberators, they put the French women through a more hellish ordeal than what they had experienced in the camp. The women were raped repeatedly by Russian troops, to the point where some of them were too weakened to continue their journey.

When Soviet forces liberated the subcamp at Neustadt-Glewe, "they raped all the women and girls: Jewish, Hungarian, German-it didn't matter." A group of Jewish women from this subcamp believed that their emaciated condition (they weighed on average only 30 kg/66 lbs) would be a deterrent. It was not. Such behavior by Russian troops was extremely widespread, and as rumors of the rapes spread, many women either hid or tried to make themselves look sick and contagious when they learned of approaching Russian military units....
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Polish women - former prisoners of German concentration and labour camps - who tried to reach Poland going eastward shared the same fate as other women who happend to be in the path of the "liberating" Red Army

Sikorski is among the PO politicians associated with German christian-democratic circles as well as with American-Jewish circles, he has every reason to produce biased accounts.