The brutality of the fascists against Soviet prisoners of war was a trivial: in the coastal areas, the Germans once put thousands of wounded prisoners of war on a ship anchored in the bay and then set fire to the ship. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the cold winter of '41 came, the prisoners of war were starving and cold, and some of the poorly dressed people died quickly. The treatment they were subjected to was inhumane treatment unimaginable to good people: large tracts of corpses were not removed for days, and the living were mixed with the dead, which made life in the concentration camps even more unbearable.

The captives were beaten with rifle butts and sticks, refused to eat even pigs, and some Soviet villagers who managed to deliver food and bread to the captives were severely beaten, while prisoners of war who tried to receive food were immediately shot and killed.

In some areas where there are minefields, the easiest and most convenient way for the fascists to clear mines is to drive prisoners of war to minefields, and they often do so.

In the history of world wars, the slaughter of prisoners of war by both hostile countries, intentionally or unintentionally, will take into account the supervision and restraint of international laws of war and international public opinion, and no country or nation can catch up with the cruelty of the German Nazis in treating prisoners of war in the war!

When the fascists were brutalizing prisoners of war, they didn't even want to find a high-sounding excuse at all, and they went on with it. The brutal abuse, the killing of prisoners of war, and the mass murder of the fascist atrocities they resorted to dwarfed all the most deplorable practices of the Middle Ages for prisoners of war!

It should be said that the strong conviction and indomitable spirit of the Soviet soldiers was one of the reasons for the panic of the Germans. In general, the crimes committed by the Nazi executioners against the prisoners of war could have two motives: first, to inflict **** on the prisoners of war as much as possible, in order to disintegrate their mental strength, sharpen their fighting spirit, make them shaken and doubtful about themselves and the cause they fought for, and despair of the future of the motherland. The second is the elimination of those prisoners of war who have shown themselves unwilling to submit to the new order imposed by the Nazis in the past or after being captured.

Some succumbed, but many more Red Army prisoners would rather face death than change their faith in communism and the faith they fought for!

The fascist bandits treated Soviet prisoners of war as well as Soviet civilians, and even more so the Jews of the Soviet Union and other German-occupied areas.

In the face of a ferocious enemy like the fascists, Tito's troops often executed German prisoners of war in batches in front of foreign correspondents after the war - from the prevailing opinion decades later, the execution of prisoners of war (especially the whole process with the camera) seemed cruel, but do not forget that the atrocities committed by the German army in Yugoslavia were a thousand times more cruel! Moreover, it is nothing more than an old tradition in the Balkans - the Balkans do not consider killing the enemy, whether prisoners of war or civilians, to be unseemly.

The Russians have revenge, and the prisoner of war camps in Siberia are just a small repayment for what the fascists have done for what they have done - the Soviets paid tens of millions of casualties in the war, and you expect them to treat their prisoners preferentially? The guards in the Siberian concentration camps were fierce, because almost every Soviet family had relatives and friends killed or disabled in the war, and this was no longer just hatred between nations and countries, but also personal hatred!

When a man's wife, children, siblings, or parents die at the hands of the fascists, if he is still merciful to the enemy, he must have something wrong with his brain! The USSR was already very merciful that it did not wipe the entire German nation off the face of the earth.

Are there "gentlemanly Germans", Germans who have never killed anyone and who have died in Siberia or elsewhere? Very wronged? Do not forget that there are no individuals in war, as the Soviets often said during the Great Patriotic War: there is no gender in war - war is a whole, it is calculated uniformly.

It's cruel and realistic, because it's a war between different peoples and countries! Not a contradiction between brothers! It is irreconcilable hatred!

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On the night of November 16, the command of the Western Front in Minsk. Lin Jun hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and he kept an eye on the development of the battle at all times—except for some trouble with the offensive in the north, everything was going well. Stolbutch is still in his own hands, and the defenders there have withstood repeated attacks almost 24 hours a day!

His eyes were bloodshot, and he watched the constant change of the red arrows on the huge combat map - by noon tomorrow at the latest, the circle would be roughly formed!

"Deputy Commander, you should go and rest for a while."

Listening to the voice, you can know that it is Zhukov, and on occasions with a large number of people, the commander of the front army is still accustomed to calling himself deputy commander-in-chief: Zhukov's complexion is much better, because he knows when to go to the rest meeting.

Lin Jun shook his head: "It's okay, I'll go to sleep later." ”

"Our forward force on the right flank is still 40 kilometers from Stolbutch, there are almost no heavy German groups in between, tomorrow the iron gates will be closed, and the next step should be to close the encirclement."

Zhukov was in high spirits, and after the Western Front paid huge casualties, victory seemed to be in sight. The first step of the campaign, "encirclement", did not have much to do with his Western Front, but in the second stage, the original reserve troops of the Western Front would participate, and he could play a very important role.

"Soon the Germans will do everything they can to break through the siege or draw troops from the west to break the siege, and the fierce battle before the New Year has just begun." Lin Jun rubbed his somewhat dry eyes.

As soon as the "red whirlwind" was launched, the entire Soviet-German battlefield became relatively chaotic for a period of time -- on both sides of the Belarusian flank, both the Soviet and German sides moved around the Minsk direction, and the movements of one side would move the other, and this would no longer be the only case that there was a large-scale battle in the Belarusian direction, the entire front was exchanging fire, and the front edge of the front a few days ago was changing at any time.

"By the way, just now we contacted the Red Army guerrilla corps in the Pripyat Marsh area."

"Okay, they're going to be able to exert 10 times their usual strength."

"I have asked all the partisans in the north of the Swamp to disrupt the lines of communication in western Belarus, to harass the German convoys, and to slow down the German support in the west as much as possible."

"With the partisans here, the Germans' transport capacity has dropped by at least 30 percent during this period!" Lin Jun's consideration was quite conservative, because this would be in the guerrilla camp in the swamp, and Melnik and the others, who had just arrived not long ago, were negotiating their next move.

They had just returned to the camp just over an hour earlier, while Captain Yeffimore's troops and some of the partisans who had been replenished to him remained to the west and continued to harass the German transport lines in the north-south direction.

"The task of the higher authorities was clear, we were to do everything we could to disrupt the German transport lines. Kozlov, tonight he was going to send a messenger overnight to convey the orders of his superiors to the nearby partisans. ”

"Okay, I'll get ready later."

Kozlov was very happy, because with that German radio station he had finally made contact with his superiors again, and had a clear goal for the operation: sometimes the partisans were confused by the lack of news from above.

"There will be a transport plane airdropping a liaison to us at about 11 o'clock tonight, and the landing site will be in charge of Zadov, so don't make a mistake."

"Yes, Commander."

"This time our mission is mainly to sabotage the railway, and the attack on the road transport convoy is only secondary, so the troops will be divided into small groups to destroy the railway without interruption and irregularity! Paralysing the transport of the Germans! Okay, let's go and get ready, and take the time to rest. ”

Most of the Cossacks' horses were to remain in the camps, and such operations required foot and scattered operations, leaving the Germans busy. The launching of a large-scale campaign was also a good thing for the survival of the guerrillas themselves, and the German army had to reduce the number of troops used to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, and then shrink to defend the lines of communication - this is itself an asymmetrical operation, there are no rules, and it is difficult for the side defending the lines of communication to exterminate the guerrillas, and when the guerrillas really come to destroy, the way of taking the initiative to attack will become inappropriate (the Germans take the initiative to attack, and the line of communication will be full of loopholes, and this "the best defense is to attack" will sometimes become less intelligent).

Zhukov wants to airdrop a liaison officer to the guerrilla corps, but in fact, he is an expert in airdrop guerrilla tactics, not a "emperor" of some guerrilla force. In guerrilla warfare, let the guerrillas decide how to act: you can tell them what best to protect themselves and fight the enemy, but don't think about how to get them to act according to your will, that is asking for trouble.

The commanders were at the headquarters, and the comrades in the camp outside were also busy—a rare meal of captured German supplies was being prepared; The German winter coats and blankets that had been brought back also needed to be distributed.

The children finally had warm clothes, and the old people had blankets to sleep with - many of them had nothing but ragged clothes when they first joined the guerrillas. The partisans were dressed in the same "Soviet-German dress" as their weapons, and they wore everything that could be used to protect them from the cold and fit them, and even the shabby Red Army cavalry uniforms of the Cossacks were often German uniforms.

Some of the partisans wore German caps, because they had no other ones - the Cossacks and other comrades who had the summer caps of the Red Army often wore two hats, with the captured German caps underneath. Comrades who did not have a Red Army cockade sewed a large cloth red five-pointed star on their German caps, for which the red cloth in the camp was most needed.

People in German uniforms, German military caps, and 98K or MP40 on their backs can be seen everywhere in the camp, except that their cockades are red and their beliefs are red! But the partisans were always in full "German equipment", and it was a luxury—for example, there would be a comrade wearing a brand new German coat with no German belt around his waist: he used a hemp rope as a belt, and a German grenade that had just been distributed was stuck in his head.

This is the guerrillas, the guerrillas who use everything in supplies.

(I wrote a few chapters on partisans, because some book friends want to know about the situation of the Soviet partisans, and now we will return to the frontal battlefield, around our Marshal Prenyakov.) (To be continued.) )