As the war progressed, the Allies employed tactics that were more revenge-based than tactical strategy. The city of Dresden in Germany was bombed because of its history as a center for art and culture. This was in reparation for the German decision to bomb the English city of Coventry. The Soviets advanced into Germany for a few weeks in 1944 before being driven out, but in that time the brutality of the Red Army on the villages and civilians made itself well known. Most Civilians were Women children and elderly people at this time as almost all able-bodied men were in the army. It was for that reason that many Germans fled Eastern Prussia when the Red Army officially invaded. The fleeing Germans sometimes had to cross frozen lakes, that the Soviets would then bomb while they were crossing so as to drown them. When the Soviets defeated the Germans at the Battle of Berlin, the Soviets proceeded to wreak havoc in the city with their brutal acts. If the Red Army found Soviet Nationalists in German Concentration camps, the Soviets then sent them on to one of their gulags, because the defenders of the motherland had been contaminated by the outside world.
After the German occupation of France, people were encouraged to rat out anyone who had conspired with the Nazis. There were people who had collaborated with the Nazis, but many people rated out against people they just didn’t like or owed money to. The people accused of conspiring against the Nazis could either have been shot or paraded through the streets naked for people to spit on and throw stuff at.