The Germans Run Like Hell

Some russian soldiers were disgusted by the behavior of their comrades. Word gets around about what the russians do to civilians, and it sparks a massive refugee crisis. All of this terror is inflamed by notsy propagandists who see the russia war crimes as a potential tool to stiffen german sistance. In temperatures as cold as negative 22 degrees, huge convoys of civilians track west through the frozen countryside towards what they believe is the safety of the richland. Men and women are blindly searching for anything resembling safety, but no one is coming to save them. By this time, the once vast reservoir of german fighting men had been thrown into the meat grinder