The Germans in Ukraine during the revolution, according to General Wrangel
"Then we heard a rumour that the Germans were in the Ukraine. We saw less and less of the Reds, and one fine morning, we saw a column of Prussian soldiers on the highway, marching in good order. Deeply grieved as I was to see the enemy master of Russia, and my country disgraced, I was nevertheless happy at being free from the humiliating yoke of those blockheaded idiots. I must give the Germans their due: they behaved with decency and did their best to avoid annoying the inhabitants of the country they were about to occupy. All the decrees and orders of their predecessors were annulled, except the one concerning permission to leave or enter the Crimea. The Kommandatur helped those who had been robbed to get their possessions back again, and had those Red thieves and murderers who had not been able to get clear in time, arrested and delivered up to justice..."
General Wrangel (1928). Always with Honour.
Photo: Germans in Kiev (1918).
