The Russians in Graz: They even drained the Hilmteich to...

"Who will occupy us? I don't think Russians," says Hanns Hermann Gießauf in his diary on May 8, 1945. The next day the Grazer adds: "And this morning two o'clock the Russians came. In endless columns of cars, cars and rubber-ripened cannons. "This night, when units of the 57th army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front liberated the Styrian state capital from the Nazi regime and brought it under their control without resistance, marks a turning point in th…

Instead of the expected British liberator, the Red Army rolled in on May 9, 1945: The book "Red Star on Graz" depicts everyday life afterwards – and what the soldiers have done so crazyly, with petroleum lamps, watches and bicycles.