Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "The Allied crime against humanity WW2 (Operation Keelhaul E1)" video.

  1. Germany and Austria were very reluctant to grant citizenship to anyone who wasn't an ethnic German. So I suppose these Whites were simply given resident - alien status, which would have left them very vulnerable in 1945.
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  2. There was that newspaper article. It appears that the brutal treatment of The Cossacks by Allied soldiers was known and deplored in The USSR. It was probably easier to sympathise with them if they had never worn Nazi uniform.
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  3.  @dawidlijewski5105  The Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was still a thing in UK if nowhere else.
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  4. Most likely they had been conscripted into The Wehrmacht and then defected to The Allies.
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  5.  @KarakNornClansman  It's sad to see this casual dismissal of Solzhenitsyn. Obviously his account has the limited perspective of all memoir but had experienced The Gulag himself and could give an authentic account of what it felt like.
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  6. Most likely The Allies simply didn't want to take on the task of caring for these people.
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  7. No it was quite separate. But it does show that The Allies were very callous towards anyone suspected of collaborating with The Nazis.
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  8. I presume the camp was run by Austrians up to 1938, by Nazis up to May 1945, and by The Brits after that date
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  9.  @TheImperatorKnight  The reports of criminal behaviour by British soldiers are distressing.
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  10. They were presumably told that these people were Nazis, which many of them would have been.
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  11. Inhumane punishment in their home country. Whether this applies to The Soviet Union is debatable. The days of mass executions had ended. However The Gulag was still a very brutal place, largely run by The Russian mafia.
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