Melnik ordered his troops not to accept fascist prisoners, and not only because of what happened to them in Tomashovka, but for other reasons!

The Soviet Union has never been soft on German prisoners of war, because Germany has treated Red Army prisoners of war and Soviet civilians who believe in communism in a way that is many times more cruel!

War makes people crazy, and hatred makes people abandon all so-called moral principles! Because of the treatment of wild beasts, even fascists who were a thousand times more cruel than wild beasts, the Cossacks of the 53rd Division behaved very mercifully!

In October, thousands of Soviet prisoners of war broke through the power grid of the camp walls at the same time in a makeshift concentration camp in eastern Poland and escaped - if they did not escape, only death, a painful death awaited them! Most of the POWs were shot by the Germans as soon as they escaped from the camps, but some of them managed to escape according to the original escape route. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A few prisoners of war leaned on bark and moss on foot eastward, struggling through the forest to the Swamp, knowing that there might be Red Army guerrilla activity there. They succeeded, and the 53 Division learned from them how the fascists treated Soviet prisoners of war!

The prisoners of war only knew what they had seen and experienced, and there was much more they did not know: as early as May 1941, a document was drawn up at Hitler's base camp, which specifically put forward suggestions for the handling of high-ranking political workers of the Soviet army:

The decision on whether a prisoner of war falls within the scope of the extermination is the responsibility of the officer - the document states that this refers to "the officer who has the power to discipline." ”

In this way, every junior officer of the German army, regardless of his position and rank, had the power of life and death over any captured Red officers and soldiers.

The third point in the document states: "If the political leader in the army is not recognized as a prisoner of war, he should be killed in a temporary prisoner of war camp at the latest, and he should not be sent to the rear......

The proclamation of the German Order No. 14-802/42 states:

1. Soviet prisoners of war should be marked with special and permanent markings.

2. The mark consists of an open 45-degree acute angle, one centimeter on each side, with the tip of the corner pointing upward, located about a palm's width from the groin on the left hip. It can be done with the scalpel that is available in all units, and ink can be used as a dye....

All these practices showed that Soviet prisoners were destined from the very beginning of the war to be the best targets for the German army to relieve their morale and build self-confidence - the German army had only one purpose, that is, to bring down the unarmed and defenseless prisoners of war and fall to the ground and die!

Political workers did not have the status of prisoners of war, but what was the treatment of other prisoners of the Red Army who had "prisoner of war qualifications"?

In the winter of 1941, when the temperature dropped below zero in the snowy weather, the Red Army prisoners of war had no place to live, and many died of hunger and cold. In a long letter to Field Marshal Keitel, the German Minister of Occupation in the East, Rosenberg, protested against the treatment of Russian prisoners of war:

Soviet prisoners of war in Germany suffered an extremely tragic fate, and many died of either starvation or torture. This situation could have been avoided, and Germany had enough food for them to eat, preferring to starve them to death. Even when the prisoners of war were escorted to the prisoner of war camps, the common people were not allowed to give them anything to eat. Many prisoners of war were shot on the spot due to hunger and fatigue and were unable to keep up with the procession. The shooting of prisoners of war was carried out in front of frightened civilians, and the bodies were abandoned in place. There were no houses to live in the prisoner of war camp at all, it was windy and rainy, and the prisoners of war also slept in the open air...... Finally, I have to mention the shooting of prisoners of war, which they did not consider from a political point of view at all......

This is probably the difference between a small number of "ordinary Germans" and the fascists, and there is a little political consideration and humane spirit in it, but there are very few such German officials, and the starting point is also politics.

The camp commanders often complained that five to ten percent of the Soviets who were scheduled to be executed were dead or on the verge of death before they reached the camps...... It is particularly noteworthy that on the way to the camps, such as from the railway station to the camps, a considerable number of prisoners of war lay on the road exhausted, some dead and some half-dead, so that the escort had to follow a truck carrying them - so it was impossible not to let the Germans see such a scene!

However, the attitude of the Nazi officials was: "The more these prisoners of war die, the better it will be for us." ”

Humanitarianism did not exist, neither the Germans on the front line nor the camp managers in the rear, or even the concentration camps had an opinion on the cruelty of the troops at the front!

It's ridiculous that the cruel fascists have opinions about other fascists, and the reason is even more outrageous to say it! -- The executioners of the concentration camps and prisoner of war camps will feel a little regretful: for for every war death, they have one less target for execution!

In order to prevent ordinary Germans from seeing the tragic scenes of the prisoners of war on their way to death, Heinrich Müller (one of the heads of the Gestapo, SS regional chief and lieutenant general of the police) decreed on 9 November 1941: "From now on, Russian prisoners of war who clearly have no hope of survival or are unable to make even a short journey are not to be transported to concentration camps to be put to death." ”

Nearby processing, fast aspect.

However, the Wehrmacht's violation of the laws of war and the denial of the most basic living conditions to the prisoners of war should be regarded as the most merciful treatment of Soviet prisoners of war by the German fascists compared to the atrocities of the SS: the crimes committed by the German SS special forces against the Red Army prisoners of war in the labor camps and prisoner of war camps were a thousand times more brutal!

The prisoners of war lived in garbage bins, dog sheds, old ovens, and grass huts built by themselves, and there was no food to satisfy their hunger. Medical care for the sick and wounded is even more out of the question, and prisoners of war can be seen dying in torture and pain at every moment......

What was the standard procedure for treating Soviet prisoners of war? The escaped prisoners of war made the partisans aware of the fascist practices, as one of them, who was forced to work for a time in a prisoner-of-war camp, was a "corpse collector":

In general, prisoners of war walked about a kilometer from the station to the camp: they spent the night in the camp without a food supply, because this was not needed, and the next night they were taken to be executed!

Trucks were constantly pulling prisoners of war out of the camp, some distance from the execution ground, but only a kilometre. The executions were carried out in a shack specially built for this purpose not long ago, one room was a stripping room and the other was a waiting room, each with a radio with a considerable volume turned on, so that the captives could not know that death awaited them.

One by one, I walked out of the second room, through the hallway, and into the hut that came out of the room. The hut was covered with iron lattice nets on the ground and a drainage ditch underneath, and when the prisoners of war were killed, "corpse collectors" would drag the bodies away and wash the blood off the iron lattice nets. The "corpse collectors" were held separately, and in a few days, they would also be dead bodies in small rooms, and then dragged away by the people who replaced them.

There was a hole in the wall of the small room with a diameter of 50 centimeters, and before the execution, the prisoner was allowed to stand against the back of his head against the hole, and the gun behind the hole was fired at him. But in reality this device was not very useful, and because of the high consumption of bullets - for this reason the Einsatzgruppen invented a new device: the prisoner of war was still standing against the wall as before, and then slowly lowered an iron plate and put it on his head.

The prisoner of war would think that this was to measure his height, and there was a conical piece of iron on the iron plate, which was released and fell right on the back of the captive's head, so that he fell to the ground and died—economically and quickly! The prisoners of war killed in this way were burned in a movable crematorium in a truck trailer, and the truck driver had to work ten or twenty times a day!

After the comrades of the 53rd Division learned of the atrocities of the fascists, coupled with the atrocities they saw the fascists treating Soviet civilians, it was impossible for any soldier to talk about humanitarianism after capturing the fascists, and letting the cavalry directly cut off his head could be regarded as the luck of the German! It was not the Cossacks who treated the German prisoners of war the most, but the partisans, who were originally civilians - because many of them had relatives who died at the hands of the fascists, and they demanded a hundredfold retribution from the fascists!

In order to prevent the partisans, who had been carried away by hatred, would be tortured as soon as the Germans were captured, even Melnik, who did not need to be taken prisoner, had to issue a strict order on the orders of the supreme commander of the partisan corps: any prisoners must be interrogated with an interpreter before they were disposed of.

It was important for the partisans to obtain information from the captives, but the fact was that on several occasions small groups of partisans captured one or two Germans in battle, brought them back to the camp and slowly tortured the prisoners for several hours, and finally dealt with them without interrogation at all - there were no German-speaking people among them, and it was unrealistic to be escorted to several large camps with German interpreters, and the comrades did not have that time.

The order was given, but it was only valid for the partisans who knew German, and Melnik could only acquiesce in the actions of the partisans. At one time, several Germans appeared in the camp of the division headquarters: after the interrogation of the Cossacks, other comrades would have strongly demanded that the prisoners of war be handed over to them.

The Cossacks did not need to use a sword, and there was no word for shooting, because the bullet was meant to be used in battle - a rope? It's not that cheap either!

After a German lieutenant gave a bunch of useless news, the Cossacks handed him over to partisans dressed in civilian clothes, and the captives were quickly intercepted by a group of women and old men in the camp: he had been bitten to death by those who had red eyes because of hatred, and who were originally simple Soviet peasants who had eaten his flesh for hundreds of lives!

It was becoming less and less possible to capture prisoners, because in small ambushes, the encircled Germans would try their best to commit suicide at the last moment, and the partisans, too, did not want to be captured by the fascists.

This is a dead knot that cannot be untied, when the Germans tied the knot first, both sides did not hesitate to continue to tie the knot desperately, never to die!

"When the war is over, I think our team will be the best torture experts." The commander of the second detachment, Colonel Ivan Grigjevich Zadov, once said this to his division commander.

"No, they will become simple and kind people again."

"What if they were to run the prisoner of war camps?"

Melnik glanced at his subordinates and didn't answer.

The Soviet Union, both during the war and after the war, never treated German prisoners of war softly, because the Russians have revenge! Preferential treatment of prisoners of war, probably only China can do it (at the time of the Korean War, the food standard we gave to the "United ****" prisoners of war was higher than that of the volunteer soldiers themselves, not to mention those Japanese devils. Not for other countries (the same is true for the so-called civilized countries of the West: Guantanamo simply said that he was not eligible for prisoners of war, not to mention the Vietnam meeting, the British killed the Boxers and the same with the black African buddies, and the Gallic chickens often killed German prisoners of war after 44 years...... ）。

The Cossack who gave the order was a pity to say "no to me", because he was happy to cut off the head of the fascist, except that in the second detachment this task was carried out by the soldier who always carried the blood-stained doll in his arms - that was the duty given to him by the general. (To be continued.) )