"Obviously, this group of people tried to use cultural relics as an excuse to escape from Berlin," said Leonard Ethan, after determining the story behind the document.
"The reason they chose this batch of cultural relics is that they belong to more marginalized cultural relics, so forging fake documents to take them out of the museum would not attract attention and would not bump into the people who really transferred the cultural relics."
During the Battle of Berlin, the desperate Germans had reached a point of madness, recruiting anyone who could hold a gun, whether it was women, children, or even the disabled as cannon fodder.
According to some records of Soviet soldiers, they saw a large number of civilians hanged in various places in Berlin when they attacked the city, with signs hung on their chests listing various so-called crimes.
