The German population sees the only protection in the face of the Red Army..."
This publication presents recently declassified documents from the Central archive of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation, which reveals a complex relationship between German, Polish and Czech population in the liberated by the Red Army in 1945 Europe. In the reports of the military councils and political administrations of the fronts, the political departments of military units, news, special reports of the military censorship cover the political situation in the occupied by Soviet troops regions of Germany, the work of the military administration among the German population, the relationship between Germans, Poles and Czechs in areas of their coexistence, and of the new Polish authorities in the transfer of a number of German territories under the jurisdiction of Poland.