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A Brief History of the German Civil War
Many of the corpses were mutilated so far beyond recognition that you couldn't tell even basic features like gender. Keith Lowe and his book Savage Continent writes, such scenes repeated themselves across all the eastern provinces of Germany. At Poisson near Königsberg for example, the bodies of dead women were strewn everywhere. They had been raped and then brutally killed with bayonets or rifle butt blows to the head.