Individuals on a rampage. [WWII]

>The threat of violent crime committed by DPs [**Displaced Persons**] was the ‘chief reason’ for arming German police in the American [**occupation**] zone in November. (Until that time they were permitted to carry only truncheons.) A British officer recollected of Soviet deportees: >*They just made mayhem. They broke into all the houses, raped all the women and drank the place dry. The Germans were quite docile and just tried to hide. The Russians weren’t organized. They were just individuals on the rampage. They’d been quite brutalized by what they’d been through as prisoners.* _________________________ **Source:** Bessel, Richard. “Societies of the Uprooted.” *Germany 1945: From War to Peace*. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 2009. 261. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Memoirs of the British officer John Stanton, quoted in Bethell, *The Last Secret*, p. 93. ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**