they would've stood off at a distance and blown the whole town up/city/block up
with tanks/arty/etc
Dead either way is dead either way ...

You know what you call someone who isn't willing to fight when they have to ... A slave.
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as far as i know, many Germans in 1945 were incapable to fight mentally. many (like Jewish women from Nazi death comps) thought that "red hordes" were the real liberators. but instead many of them were raped by Muscovite occupants
good call...they were mentally defeated and just wanted it over
they knew resistance was futile in the least
the Germans didn´t believe that USA/UK could fight side by side with Stalinist hordes against Germany but not each other . the world collapsed on them "
Soviets were behind the massacre that they even included some Allied prisoners of war"
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The question about the fate of the Polish prisoners was raised soon after
Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941. The
Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government signed the
Sikorski–Mayski agreement, which announced the willingness of both to fight together against Nazi Germany and for a Polish army to be formed on Soviet territory. The Polish general
Władysław Anders began organizing this army, and soon he requested information about the missing Polish officers. During a personal meeting, Stalin assured him and
Władysław Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, that all the Poles were freed, and that not all could be accounted because the Soviets "lost track" of them in
Manchuria.
[41][42] Józef Czapski investigated the fate of Polish officers between 1941 and 1942.
In 1942, with the territory around Smolensk under German occupation, captive Polish railroad workers heard from the locals about a mass grave of Polish soldiers at
Kozelsk near Katyn; finding one of the graves, they reported it to the
Polish Underground State.
[43] The discovery was not seen as important, as nobody thought the discovered grave could contain so many victims.
[43] In early 1943,
Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, a German officer serving as the intelligence liaison between the
Wehrmacht's
Army Group Centre and
Abwehr, received reports about mass graves of Polish military officers. These reports stated the graves were in the forest of Goat Hill near Katyn. He passed the reports to his superiors (sources vary on when exactly the Germans became aware of the graves—from "late 1942" to January–February 1943, and when the German top decision makers in Berlin received those reports [as early as 1 March or as late as 4 April]).
[44] Joseph Goebbels saw this discovery as an excellent tool to drive a wedge between Poland, the Western Allies, and the Soviet Union, and reinforcement for the
Nazi propaganda line about the horrors of Bolshevism, and American and British subservience to it.
[45] After extensive preparation, on 13 April,
Reichssender Berlin broadcast to the world that German military forces in the Katyn forest near Smolensk had uncovered a ditch that was "28 metres long and 16 metres wide [92 ft by 52 ft], in which the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers were piled up in 12 layers".
[2] The broadcast went on to charge the Soviets with carrying out the massacre in 1940.
[2]
The Germans brought in a European Red Cross committee called the
Katyn Commission,
comprising 12 forensic experts and their staff, from Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, and Slovakia.[46] The Germans were so intent on proving that the
Soviets were behind the massacre that they even included some Allied prisoners of war, among them writer
Ferdynand Goetel, the Polish
Home Army prisoner from
Pawiak.
[47] After the war, Goetel escaped with a fake passport due to an arrest warrant issued against him.
Jan Emil Skiwski was a collaborator.
Józef Mackiewicz has published several texts about the crime. Two of the 12, the Bulgarian Marko Markov and the Czech
František Hájek, with their countries becoming
satellite states of the Soviet Union, were forced to recant their evidence, defending the Soviets and blaming the Germans.
[48] The Croatian pathologist
Eduard Miloslavić managed to escape to the USA.
The Katyn massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. On 14 April 1943, Goebbels wrote in his diary: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the
GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Führer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple of weeks".
[49] The Germans won a major propaganda victory, portraying communism as a danger to "
Western civilization".
The Soviet government immediately denied the German charges. They claimed that the Polish prisoners of war had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk, and consequently were captured and executed by invading German units in August 1941. The Soviet response on 15 April to the initial German broadcast of 13 April, prepared by the
Soviet Information Bureau, stated that "Polish prisoners-of-war who in 1941 were engaged in construction work west of Smolensk and who...fell into the hands of the German-Fascist hangmen".
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