Russians in Germany A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949

"...it is impossible to read Norman M. Naimark's masterly analysis of the Soviet occupation between the end of the war and the emergence of two German states in 1949 without feeling some sympathy for the East Germans....The most original chapter in this startlingly original book shows how the rapes committed by Soviet troops undermined the basis of the East German Government long before it existed."Naimark, Norman M. is the author of 'Russians in Germany A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949' with ISBN 9780674784055 and ISBN 0674784057.