Rape, humiliation, and torture were commonplace in the camp. Lingering grievances are perhaps finally shelved, friends and relatives laid to rest, and a universal truth vividly exposed - that suffering knows no nationality. An intensely personal portrait of abuse, humiliation and exploitation is falteringly remembered in the search for some sort of catharsis.
They were only children at the time, but that didn't matter. They were ordinary citizens whose semblance of normality was shattered by the arrival of the invading allied forces in their front rooms. They told us Germany was responsible for everything in the war and had to redeem its guilt." "The Russians didn't care about what happened to us. "We weren't shot or killed, but we were more likely to die than to survive," Charlotte recalls. On the way they were denied food or water. Along with thousands of others, they were forced to march to work camps and endure a regime of hard labour. With that decree the fate of four women - Charlotte, Traute, Delheid and Dora - was sealed. In this manner the USSR's war ravaged economy was to be revitalised. It allowed the Red Army to "mobilise and intern for assignment to work in the USSR all able-bodied Germans". In February 1945 at the Yalta Conference, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed a deal that would unsettle and destroy the lives of thousands of Germans.
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