If stories from my immediate family and relations are to believed, that's not the case. People ran from soviets because they were stealing everything and killing anyone they didn't like, including jews. Germans mostly weren't involved at all, except military control wise.
I guess there's always assholes everywhere, some working to advance nazi goals. Some betraying everyone for survival. Some working for soviets because they were too stupid to see they'll eventually lose everything to Stalin, despite the propaganda ("to the people"). "Brother fought brother" as the saying goes. Overall, the idea was to exploit the side less harmful to get rid of the more harmful side, 3rd Reich was ironically the less harmful in this picture. Soviets were just all around inhumane all the time.
If stories from my immediate family and relations are to believed, that's not the case. People ran from soviets because they were stealing everything and killing anyone they didn't like, including jews. Germans mostly weren't involved at all, except military control wise.
I guess there's always assholes everywhere, some working to advance nazi goals. Some betraying everyone for survival. Some working for soviets because they were too stupid to see they'll eventually lose everything to Stalin, despite the propaganda ("to the people"). "Brother fought brother" as the saying goes. Overall, the idea was to exploit the side less harmful to get rid of the more harmful side, 3rd Reich was ironically the less harmful in this picture. Soviets were just all around inhumane all the time.