Original sentence: Accordingly, all evidence—such as reports, photos, and other documents of looting, rape, the burning down of farms and villages by the Red Army—was deleted from all archives in the future GDR.The Soviets made it a policy to loot and rape civilians in Manchuria
Edited sentence: Accordingly, all evidence (that is, if there was any in the first place)—such as reports, photos, and other documents of looting, rape, the burning down of farms and villages by the Red Army—was deleted from all archives in the future GDR.The Soviets made it a policy to loot and rape civilians in Manchuria, Manchuria a part of China, that's a new one hua