Führer Rommel was in his office in Berlin at this time to receive a historically controversial mission, that is, Soviet General Vlasov. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Vlasov served as the commander of the 4th Mechanized Army, and in January 1940, he became the commander of the newly formed 37th Army, participating in frontal defensive operations in the Ukrainian direction.

Vlasov became a prisoner of the German 38th Infantry Corps in a small village called Pyatnitsa, and under the influence of the Führer Rommel's preferential treatment of prisoners, when Vlasov heard that his parents were executed by Stalin and his wife and children were sent to Siberia for labor reform, Vlasov quickly defected and surrendered, completing the transformation from a "hero of the Red Army" to a "fascist accomplice". (Stalin's definition of Vlasov.) ）

Why did Führer Rommel summon Vlasov, a Soviet general, to take prisoner? Because Führer Rommel needed a senior Soviet general who understood military affairs, and had prestige and influence to form the Russian Liberation Army, but when appealing the conditions, he had to have a blood feud with the Stalin regime.

God helped Führer Rommel, and Vlasov's housing conditions were very much in line with Führer Rommel's requirements, and those huge Soviet prisoners of war in the Soviet Union could finally play a huge role in the future.

Historically, during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, millions of Soviet soldiers were captured by Germany, and more than 1 million of them joined the German army after surrendering, and some of these "volunteers" were later organized into the "Russian Liberation Army", commanded by the surrendered Soviet general Vlasov.

First of all, Vlasov's mutiny was not an isolated act, it was inseparable from the entire historical context of that time.

In the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Red Army suffered considerable losses, a total of 5.24 million Soviet soldiers were captured by the Germans, of which 3.8 million were captured in the first months after the outbreak of the war, which is a staggering figure.

In the summer of 1941, Soviet soldiers were encircled by the German generals. On the one hand, it was due to the pressure of the grim situation in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, and on the other hand, it was due to the **** of Stalin.

Therefore, in the wartime USSR there was no concept of "prisoner of war" at all, only "deserters, traitors to the Motherland and enemies of the people".

Order No. 270, issued by Stalin on April 6, 1941, stated that the Red Army fighters must hold out to the last man in any case and not be taken prisoner.

The commander was authorized to shoot those who dared to be taken prisoner in order to avoid a single death. This practice was certainly too harsh and even unfair to the Soviet soldiers, but it was also caused by the extremely cruel war environment.

Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation also provides for the families of captured Red Army soldiers to be brought to trial and exiled to Siberia.

In this case, whether the captured Soviet soldiers wanted to or not, they either chose to become "martyrs" in the concentration camps, or they chose to cooperate with the Germans against their homeland.

In addition, due to the brutality of fascist Germany's treatment of prisoners of war, the poor living conditions in the camps also forced some weak-willed prisoners to cooperate with the Germans.

German military historian Joachim? Hoffman writes:

"The soldiers were extremely weak when they were captured, and during the fighting, they sometimes had nothing to eat for 6-8 days, and even when they were provided with adequate food, they were not able to eat.

Almost all POW camps reported that many POWs lost consciousness after the first meal and then died. “

In fact, the Germans did not intend to provide the Soviet prisoners of war with the minimum food they needed to sustain themselves, but wanted to torture all the Soviet prisoners of war to death through forced labor, or even to slaughter them altogether, and at least 2.5 million Soviet prisoners died in concentration camps throughout the war.

For Vlasov, the horrors of the concentration camp terrified him. On the one hand, a large number of captives swarmed from the front; On the other hand, there was the merciless torture of facing death, and the news of the concentration camps was entirely in favor of the Germans.

Seeing more and more of his peers walking into the concentration camps, Vlasov finally lost confidence that the Soviet Union had lost the war.

The only thing that could be done now was to work with the Germans to establish a puppet regime that would surrender to Germany on its knees, perhaps in the light of Vlasov's belief that Russia would shed less blood.

This idea gradually took shape in Vlasov's mind, and when he became a traitor, he once justified his subordinates:

"Isn't it a sin to shed more blood? Isn't the main enemy of the Russian nation Bolshevism and Stalin? Isn't it the primary sacred duty of every Russian to rise up against Stalin and his associates?

In that place where there were jungles and swamps, I finally came to the conclusion that my duty was to mobilize the Russian nation in the struggle against the Bolshevik regime and for the construction of a new Russia. “

His words are undoubtedly making excuses for his actions and trying to deceive himself with them. But, regardless of his motives, there was no doubt that his actions were betrayal of Stalin. It was from that moment that Vlasov tied himself to the German tank.

Although Vlasov showed a willingness to cooperate with the Germans, at first the top figures of the Nazi Party, including Himmler, were dismissive of him.

Aside from occasionally speaking to the captives in the concentration camps, Vlasov has been under house arrest in an unnamed dacha on the outskirts of Berlin.

During this period, Vlasov published a ****** entitled "Why I Embarked on the Road of Struggle against Bolshevism", in which he maliciously attacked and criticized the Soviet social system and Stalin himself, and at the same time called on every Russian to rise up and overthrow the Soviet system. “

However, the Germans did not seriously think about how to use this renegade. Himmler considered Vlasov a "stupid pig and a traitor."

In 1943, after Vlasov's first public speech in occupied Pskov, William? Marshal Keitel even gave a stern order:

"In view of the fact that the captured Russian General Vlasov went out without the approval of the Führer and my own consent, and made brazen speeches that were not approved, I hereby order that the Russian General Vlasov be immediately transferred to the prisoner of war camp and that he should not be allowed to leave this prisoner of war camp."

Only the German Minister of Propaganda Joseph? Goebbels saw the usefulness of Vlasov. In the spring of 1945, he wrote in a diary:

"At noon I had a very detailed conversation with General Vlasov, a very knowledgeable and energetic Russian military commander, who made a very deep impression on me.

In his opinion, it was possible to save Russia only if it got rid of the ideology of the Bolsheviks and mastered an ideology similar to that of National Socialism pursued by the German people. “

Half of Goebbels's recommendation, half of it was forced by the situation, in the last months of the Third Reich's demise, Hitler finally thought of using the tame Vlasov to form the Russian Liberation Army, but at this time the trend of the war could not be changed, and Hitler missed this once-in-a-lifetime "talent" in vain. (To be continued.) )