Andrei then went to the hospital for prisoners of war, but the situation inside made Andrei almost vomit, and it was later recorded that because there was no building on the ground to shelter from the cold, the tunnel at the throat of Stalingrad was redesignated as the "First Prisoner of War Hospital", the largest and most terrifying of all the prisoner of war hospitals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The walls of the Info Tunnel are constantly dripping with water, and the foul smell completely replaces the fresh air, which is the perfect breeding ground for diseases. Primitive kerosene lamps made from cans robbed the only oxygen they had, flickering in the tunnels and threatening to go out at any moment. Each tunnel was narrow, just enough for the wounded to lie shoulder to shoulder on the wet ground. Walking in such a crowded place is very difficult, and you can hear moans of pain from the trampling of your feet, which are already suffering from frostbite, at any time. Because the military doctors did not handle it properly, many of these German prisoners with frostbite on their feet eventually died of gangrene. Whether there were those who were lucky enough to have their limbs amputated without anesthetics and survived as a result is impossible to verify.

The conditions in the prisoner-of-war hospital, which housed more than 4,000 wounded, were dire, and doctors were helpless against the fungus that spread through the decaying flesh. There are no bandages and ** to use in the hospital anymore. In such a filthy environment, ulcers and open sores provide a convenient passage for tetanus to invade. The public toilet is just a bucket that is hung up, and people suffering from dysentery are constantly walking by. The facilities are indescribably bad, and there are no lights at night at all. Many of the wounded were too weak to get up from the ground, and there were not enough paramedics to help the wounded on the ground. Even the caregivers themselves were very weak due to malnutrition and soon began to fall ill with fever. But, even then, they had to carry water for the wounded from the polluted ravines.

Doctors don't even have an accurate list of the wounded, let alone proper medical records. Medical equipment and medicines in hospitals, because the wounded, sick and citizens of the Soviet Union also needed these things, and a lot of supplies were requisitioned.

Leaving this tunnel hospital, Andrei really knew that the Geneva Conventions were really a joke, the Germans did not abide by them, and the Soviet Union treated them as a piece of waste paper! Yushchenko, who was next to him, noticed Andrei's strange appearance, but he thought that Andrei might have been smoked by the bad air inside, so he said: "Comrade Yakov, are you not feeling well, go over there and rest!" ”

Andrei glanced at Yushchenko and said, "It's okay, Captain Yushchenko, I'm a little hungry, let's go to the side and eat something too!" In this way, they came to the camp next to them, and the chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came, and hot soup was also prepared in the camp, and now the supplies were insufficient, and Andrei also ate his own black bread, but his ration was 800 grams, Yushchenko took out bread from the bag next to him, and served it with potato soup, and when Andrei finished eating, the guard platoon also took turns to finish eating.

Looking at the logistics of the surrounding Soviet troops, Andrei also felt that he was powerless, food, there was not enough food and supplies, and he had no way to save the prisoners, Andrei later became the chairman of the KGB, and he looked through the old archives to know the answer, although the Soviets knew that the Germans would surrender, but they did not prepare for this upcoming surrender, let alone provide food for the prisoners of war. German communist Erich? Weinert's claim that the daily rations for the prisoners of war had been delayed in time because of the snowstorm raised doubts. The real problem was the cruelty and indifference of the Soviet authorities to the German prisoners of war, as well as the incompetence of the bureaucracy. First of all, of course, there was a lack of effective coordination between the Soviet Army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The deeper reason was that the Soviet authorities were simply unwilling to provide food to the German prisoners of war in the face of the severe shortage of food in the Soviet Union itself. Many of the Red Army soldiers did not have enough to eat, let alone the common people, so any idea of feeding the invaders who had plundered their homeland was counterintuitive. The idea of a better treatment was an unattainable luxury for the Germans, especially when the Soviet Red Army soldiers and ordinary people thought that the Soviets in Germany might be treated even worse.

On the other hand, in the doctor's opinion, the biggest terrorist factor threatening the wounded was not hunger, but the spread of typhus. When the first case appeared in the enclosure, many doctors had a premonition that there would be one

plague, but they did not dare to express their opinion, fearing that it would cause panic. In the pit hospitals, doctors use isolation methods to slow the spread of the disease, whether they are suffering from diphtheria or typhus. They begged the Soviet authorities to provide them with equipment to remove lice, but many Red Army soldiers and almost all civilians in the area were suffering from lice infestations.

Such a large number of deaths is not unexpected. There is no point in fighting for survival, and the fantasy of seeing your family again is as fragile as a soap bubble. These Germans, far from home, seem to have fallen into another world, another world in which they can only live by pure fantasy. Death is the best way to get rid of pain, and under the dual effect of pain and exhaustion, floating weightlessness becomes the only real feeling. Those who wish to survive will have to fight death with all their might, whether it is supported by religious beliefs or a determination to be with their families. However, in such a harsh environment, what awaits them is death in the end.

And then for the investigation of the situation of the prisoners in the city, Andrei had to admit in the inspection report, "At present, the German prisoners in the city of Stalingrad are in a very bad situation, and now they lack the most basic food, medicine and even clean water. ”

Therefore, in his next report to Moscow, Andrei hoped that his superiors would take it into account, and after almost two weeks of starvation, the daily rations finally arrived in the prisoner of war camp and the city after three or four days. But the amount of food rationed for the wounded was so small that even ten people shared a loaf of bread, plus a soup made of a small amount of millet and salted fish.

And the guards will also reduce the quota of prisoners to give to the citizens and their own personnel, but Andrei, as the Minister of Internal Affairs, is helpless, after all, it is not the Soviets who are also hungry Next, what can be done with the livelihood of the prisoners?