Chapter 40: The Killing of Prisoners
The battle went as smoothly as before, after the fireman opened fire, the German armored car exploded immediately, and the Germans on several trucks were hit by bazookas before they could get out of the car, and the soldiers in the whole car became roast chickens! As soon as the other German soldiers got out of the car, they were immediately knocked down by crackling bullets, and Andrei, in order to reduce casualties, hurriedly asked people to shout in German: "They are regular Soviet troops, not partisans, if the Germans surrender, they can be treated as prisoners of war!" At the same time, Andrei also asked the soldiers to shout "Hendhoch" (German hands raised), in fact, even the German resistance could not escape the end of annihilation
So the German soldiers believed Andrei's shout, the remnants of the soldiers and officers all chose to surrender, and the soldiers hurriedly went up to clean up the battlefield and at the same time took care of the captured German officers and soldiers lined up in a row to lay down their weapons, and the soldiers went up and tied them up, even if the weapons that had not been handed over were tied into rice dumplings, they couldn't move! At the same time, the German weapons were carried on their backs, and soon the soldiers dealt with the scene, and a commando team leader reported: "Report to the captain, capture 46 German soldiers, kill 83 German soldiers, and zero casualties on our side!" ā
And Andrei has now changed his mind, because the current conditions of Unit A are simply not able to take prisoners, and now these German troops have become meat on the chopping block! So he ordered: "Gurov, you know, we can't guard the prisoners at all, so take them into the woods in a moment!" Here Andrei waved a knife action, and the members of Unit A, who had long been angry with the German army, did not resist this order, for the internal affairs troops, killing people was simply their job, when they were in the Great Purge, they basically had blood, and there was no burden to kill prisoners, besides, he Germans killed fewer Soviets? These Germans are not human beings at all, just a bunch of brutes with two legs!
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I remember that in my previous life, many people didn't believe that the red-eyed soldiers who killed the red-eyed soldiers in the war would ignore the so-called treaty of hell, and the Soviet Union itself once mocked this international convention with the Katyn tragedy, but I didn't expect that this time Andrei himself tore up the dignity of the Geneva Conventions with his own hands, Andrei saw that everyone carried out the order with such peace of mind, and he thought a lot at the moment and remembered the killing god who slaughtered the Zhao army before he died, and said, "I deserve to die, the battle of Changping, Zhao surrendered hundreds of thousands of people, I cheated and did everything I could, it is enough to die." "The ancient Chinese still had this heart, but many modern people do not have a basic conscience!
In ancient China, it was shameful to slaughter prisoners, and it was ominous and unrighteous to slaughter prisoners of war!
In the modern concept, it is accepted that the International Military Tribunal in The Hague sentenced it to war crimes and is inhumane, but here the Soviet soldiers seem to take it for granted and did not stop it, and the humane international conventions can only restrict those countries, poor and weak countries, and have no binding force on the powerful powers, just like the Soviet Union and Germany in the current war, they are not bound.
Thinking of all this, Andrei was also thinking about all this on the way back to the camp, right? During the Soviet-German war, it was common for the Germans to massacres Soviet prisoners of war. Because for the German army, Soviet prisoners of war are a big burden, in addition to wasting valuable manpower and material resources to guard them, but also to beware of the prisoners of war may launch a resistance at any time, and the Soviet army's party members and political cadres are the target of death, generally speaking, the Soviet army's senior generals who were captured by the Germans will receive better treatment. But this is true that during the Great Patriotic War, a total of 77 Soviet generals were captured by the Germans, and 26 of them died in prisoner-of-war camps - the mortality rate of senior generals was so high, not to mention ordinary Soviet commanders and soldiers? In fact, the Germans treated the captured Soviet soldiers very badly, perhaps unless Timoshenko or Voroshilov were captured, in their capacity as marshals, out of various considerations, the Germans might treat each other politely, otherwise the only thing waiting for the prisoners of war was torture and death!
The surviving German prisoners of war later recalled his life in the Siberian prisoner of war camp: "We were driven by Soviet soldiers to the camp on our legs, and if someone was left behind, the Soviet soldiers would immediately shoot him. When we arrived at the camp, we ate once every three days, and many died every day, and from February 2 to early March, more than 50,000 German prisoners died of typhoid fever. ā¦ā¦ The 36,000 people who survived were transported by Soviet trains to Siberia for labor reform, and half of them died on the way, and when we arrived in Siberia, we were forced to work in minus 60 degrees Celsius, and the mortality rate was very high, and soon only 6,000 people remained......"
A reassuring thought in his head that all this was brought on by the Germans, which frightened Andrei! Could it be that when you come to this environment, you have become a cold-blooded animal!
And the German officers and soldiers who were tied up one by one by the team members on the road did not expect that their lives would come to an end here!
Soon the team members used their experience to escort the Germans to the front of the trees one by one, and then removed the steel helmets, two soldiers escorted people and then one soldier neatly pulled out his pistol, these German officers and soldiers quickly realized something, they cried and begged for mercy, and some even cried: "Don't kill me!" Please don't kill me, I don't want to die, Mom, help me, let me go home, I want to go home......"
However, all that was waiting for them was the sound of pistol firing one after another, and the heads of German officers and soldiers were blown out like rotten watermelons! The execution of this matter is also at the professional level of the internal affairs force!
Andrey's "It doesn't feel good, even if it's for revenge, it doesn't feel good to slaughter a lot of people, in fact, it feels bad to be an executioner, very bad!"
And then the soldiers excitedly opened the clothes of the German army to look for the trophies, and then took off the military uniforms, because these German military uniforms are genuine, and there are real military certificates, but Andrei knows that this infiltration operation also needs to be well trained, because an army has its own regulations and habits, the training regulations of the German army are different from those of the Soviet army, so even if there are real documents, you have to pay attention, otherwise it is easy to expose flaws, the first few times are to use the night to know that in the control area of the German army, The German army was on guard!
Looking at the actions of the soldiers, Andrei did not stop it, in fact, on the battlefield, the average officer will not stop these behaviors, it is normal to fight a war and get some souvenirs, basically that army has it, but as an internal affairs force responsible for the discipline supervision of the army, Andrei did not expect that after the Red Army broke out of the national border in the future, he, an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, would have to restrain military discipline than fighting on the battlefield, but this is a later story!
And Andrei truthfully reported the news of his deception to the Germans to surrender and then slaughtered to his superiors, but I didn't expect Beria's instructions that you did the right thing, if you let these prisoners escape in the back, we will have to spend effort to eliminate them in the future, so Andrei was not only not criticized but also praised a few words.
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