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The Mayors of Aachen and Krankenhagen were assassinated by the Werwolf. Hitler Youth also chalked Warnings to the civil Population about supporting Allied occupiers.

For an Army that had a huge disadvantage in Armour and Anti-Armour they did as much as they could possibly do.

I read somewhere that the Russian plan for a war against germany was to flank the germans through the balkans but i'm not sure about this

During the Scheldt Campaign in holland 1944, many French speaking Canadian Units took heavy casualties. The problem was that there just weren't enough french speaking conscripts to fill the ranks. The allies were thinking of filling the ranks with french soldiers but the idea was scraped i think.

I read a section on Yakov's death in a german PoW camp, it seems that he rushed a Perimeter fence and the germans shot him dead. Stalin had disowned him since his capture in 1941.

I know that Russian command actually had problems with Russians soldiers injuring themselves while riding looted bicycles. I'm guessing that many russians hadn't rode bicycles in their lives, i wouldn't know though

Poles weren't exactly all that "friendly" to their german prisoners due to german treatment of poles in occupied poland. I've read a section of Antony Beevor's "The Fall of Berlin" which stated that the 1st Polish Army captured 80 german prisoners of war, when they reached Russia...