The early autumn of Ukraine, which should have been a fruitful harvest scene, was once again scorched by the war, and after the Allied occupation and the Soviet counterattack, many towns that had just begun to be rebuilt after the war were once again reduced to rubble, and large cities like Kyiv were not spared.

As Ukraine's economic center and heavy industrial production area, although there was no fierce ground fighting here, the powerful allied strategic bomber forces easily included it in the scope of operations, hundreds of heavy bombers bombed the city and surrounding facilities at a frequency of half a month, and the development of radio navigation technology made the conventional camouflage and inducement measures offered by the Soviet army rarely effective. The rain of high-explosive and incendiary bombs turned the city beyond recognition, and the inhabitants fled their homes en masse, and those who remained were terrified. Even so, in order to boost the morale of the army and the people, and to prove the strength of the ruling power, Ukrainian government institutions are still stationed in Kyiv, and the permanent command and logistics of the Ukrainian Front of the Soviet army are also located here. In order to resist the large-scale bombing of the Allies, it is also from a military and political standpoint, and the Soviet air defense forces are determined to defend the city and drive away the Western invaders, which requires a large investment in manpower and equipment, and the establishment of a complete and solid air defense system. When the local residents of Ukraine were sweating their sweat in this crisp autumn weather, a "reinforcement" appeared that most of them did not expect.

"Behold, Germans!"

When the sharp-eyed uncle on the side of the road recognized the identity of the marching army, his tone seemed to return to 194 - the Ukrainians were not die-hard loyalists of the Soviet regime, from Soviet Russia to the Soviet Union, the biggest role of Ukraine in the eyes of those in power was to provide food, and political needs made them limit the number of harsh surrenders in times of disaster, and famine occurred again and again in this rich land. Hostile to Moscow's rulers and their servants, the Ukrainians not only did not have strong hostility towards the arrival of the German army, but even hope, but this hope quickly turned into disappointment and even despair.

"Hey, the Germans are really Germans, they're from the north!" The women subconsciously pushed themselves to the hillside by the roadside, and some simply hid in the bushes, but when they realized that the long marching procession did not take a step from the roadbed, and that the soldiers in the procession looked easy-going and unrestrained, they could not help but glance at the handsome young men a few more times. However, the lessons of the war for both sides were too profound, the Ukrainian residents did not dare to show warmth and friendliness, and the German officers and soldiers in the ranks were afraid of the Soviets because of their life in the prisoner of war camps, and when the Soviet officers and soldiers were concerned along the way, they had to suppress their instincts and march silently, and even the military songs that used to relieve fatigue could not be sung in unison.

"You want to send these Germans back to Germany?" Someone curiously asked the Soviet cavalry on the hillside with guns on guard, the German officers and soldiers on the road were quite neat, but this group only carried bags and did not carry any weapons, this scene is indeed very reminiscent of the escort of prisoners of war.

"Uncle, they are now our comrades, who have come to help us fight American and British imperialism!" The cavalry replied in a low voice, as if it would embarrass him to speak out loud.

A woman covered her mouth and asked, "Isn't German fascism more terrible than American and British imperialism?" ”

"German fascism is gone!" The cavalry replied, "These are all reformed German ** people, they were also deceived by Hitler and his henchmen to go to war, the big devil is dead, and they all see the situation clearly!" ”

Some of the Ukrainians around them were suddenly enlightened, and some were still confused and worried about the scene in front of them, but they did not say much and could not say more.

Four days apart, 12 infantry regiments of freed German prisoners of war arrived at the site where they had won the greatest battle of annihilation in history five years earlier, only to participate in the construction of the city's defense system, not to conquer the city. According to the training regulations of the German army, every qualified army soldier should have the common sense of building combat fortifications, which is not only to command the shovel to dig trenches and build fortifications, but to maximize the use of terrain to resist enemy attacks, and the strategic situation in the middle and late stages of World War II makes veterans and new recruits dig fortifications day after day, and the technical level is first-class. The Soviet army, on the contrary, was as offensive as the French 195 years ago, and since 1943 this instinct has been given full play, both by generals and ordinary soldiers. So in the suburbs of Kyiv, Soviet officers and soldiers and Ukrainian laborers recruited from the local area came to visit the area of responsibility of these German officers and soldiers. Using shovels, shovels and a small number of engineering vehicles, the anti-aircraft positions designed and constructed according to the German thinking were as beautiful and coherent as works of art, and the anti-aircraft artillery positions with different functions formed a dense beehive, and a large number of anti-aircraft trenches and dugouts not only provided shelter for personnel, but also could store a large amount of combat materials and even some disassembled military equipment, so that even when the Allied forces were bombing intensively, the local military production could be kept to a minimum - This was a reluctant move by the Germans to survive the last three years of World War II, but it also achieved a new military discipline. Now, the Soviets also tasted the might of the Allied strategic air force, and the hardened polar bears had to "burrow into a hole to live" like the Germans. …,

In addition to Kiev, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is also an important strategic support point for the Soviet army, 7 German infantry regiments arrived here to do the same manual work, their serious and efficient work enabled more than 10,000 Soviet officers and soldiers and reservists to get rid of mechanical repetitive fortifications to concentrate on combat preparation, and in the case of sufficient food supplies, these Germans who have suffered in Siberia appear humble and optimistic, they do not make any unequal demands, it does not matter if they do not have salaries and holidays, and they can accept that they cannot communicate with their families, They even took the initiative to help Soviet personnel learn to use German-made anti-aircraft guns, and even assembled several German-made mines using equipment and parts captured by the Soviet army in Germany

In view of their performance, the Soviet top brass decided to draw German personnel with experience in anti-aircraft operations from these infantry regiments to form a group of antiaircraft artillery batteries, which were divided into heavy anti-aircraft artillery batteries using 88-mm guns and above, light anti-aircraft artillery batteries using 37-mm guns and 20-mm machine guns, and radio companies using radar and communication equipment. In addition, six infantry regiments equipped with conventional guns and artillery have also carried out training in the vicinity of Yekaterinaburg, and the content of the training is mainly ideological and political teaching, and the officers of these infantry regiments at all levels have been "testified for", that is, each officer must have at least two colleagues prove his position, conduct, and performance during the war, and the testimony of others must be consistent with his or her personal confession. Those who may harbor a deep hatred of the Soviet Union or who have participated in battles in which the Soviet army suffered heavy casualties will be transferred to engineering units or even repatriated to prisoner of war camps because they cannot pass verification. This method of training is unique to the Soviet army, and due to the complicated and time-consuming procedures, these infantry regiments will have to wait for some time to be put into battle.

The Allied side had the same general idea of releasing and using German prisoners of war as the Soviets, but the consistent differences in their way of thinking and acting led to a very different approach to the treatment of German combatants. The Allies not only organized the released prisoners of war into battalion-sized units, but also issued firearms and equipment directly to many units. These infantry battalions, anti-tank battalions, and engineer battalions were commanded by officers sent by the American, British, French, and Polish brigades as the first commanders, and the highest-ranking German officers in the units served as deputies. After a short period of reorganization, a number of Austrian former Germans became the happiest group, because they were able to return to Austria to garrison on the spot, build fortifications, prepare for war, and were allowed to correspond with their families and even meet with them; More than 40,000 German combatants were sent to Poland and the East Prussian Corridor connecting Central Europe and the Baltic states, where Allied commanders took them to the front line to replace the American and British troops there, so that the exhausted soldiers could return to the rear.

For the Austrians, the Allies had a very effective management system, and once someone escaped, not only would they be sent back to the prisoner of war camp for an extended period of detention after they were arrested, but the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the same combat squad would also lose trust and return to the prisoner of war camp. For the Germans, the Allies imposed the same control measures and imposed strict logistical supply restrictions, with each battalion on the front line receiving only supplies for the day, which meant that German officers and soldiers hundreds of kilometers away from the German mainland had to flee either to the Soviets, a bitter enemy of the Soviets, Poland, which had been bullied by Germany during World War II, or to Lithuania in the north and Czechoslovakia in the south, where the population also hated the former German occupiers. Therefore, these German officers and soldiers who rushed into battle finally settled down on the front line with a nervous mentality, but fortunately, at this time, the front line tended to be calm, and there were no fierce battles for several weeks, and the strange comrades in the same trench gradually became familiar with each other, and the generals and officers also used this rare time to improve their command structure......

Perhaps in order to fundamentally capture the hearts of the German ** people who served their own side, or perhaps out of the consideration of breaking the will of the German ** people in the Soviet camp, the top leaders of the allies used German prisoners of war to organize combat units, and soon made a decision that surprised the whole world: to rebuild the German ** team!

During the Weimar Republic, there were many political parties in Germany, and in the 1930 election, there were 0 parties with more than 10,000 votes, and after Hitler's regime came to power, these parties were quickly weakened and disintegrated, and disappeared, and Germany entered a period of dictatorship that lasted for more than ten years. After the surrender of the German government to the Allies in 1945, some of the leaders of political parties who were expelled or voluntarily relocated abroad returned to Germany one after another to rebuild their parties or form new parties, but from the end of World War II to the outbreak of a new war between the East and the West, the development of these parties was extremely slow, and until 1946, no party or coalition of parties had enough appeal to rebuild the German government, and the Allies obviously lacked trust in any German party. So much so that the idea of Germany being reborn from the ruins as a sovereign state was difficult to realize due to many objective obstacles. When the Western Allies decided to use Germany's military might against the Soviet Union and its military partners, this historical phenomenon of armies and governments was born. …,

On September 24, the German Wehrmacht announced its formation in the historic city of Bonn on the banks of the Inn River, although this awkward name was deliberately set by the allies, but in the eyes of the German people, this is the same as the German Emperor**, the Weimar Wehrmacht, and the German Wehrmacht are the collective name of Germany's regular military forces. Nominally, this defense force was much smaller than the size allowed by the Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I, and was a "lame monster" composed of army and navy. The army has only 3 infantry brigades, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 engineer regiment, with only more than 20,000 soldiers, and the "brigade" structure has disappeared from the German ** team for a long time, and its use makes people feel that they have returned to the Weimar era or even earlier. The Navy has only a small fleet of minesweepers, which are not allowed to be equipped with aircraft and submarines of any kind, not even hot air balloons for observation.

With a body that barely crawled out of the grave, the German ** team is still 108,000 miles away from realizing its desire to be reborn. In the Army, one by Maximilian. Feng. Field Marshal Weickers was the chief of the General Staff and was responsible for commanding the army units, but it had no command authority over the infantry brigades, artillery regiments, and engineer regiments, and could only watch them be included in the Allied combat sequence and go to Poland to participate in the construction of the Lachijevich Line, which was located in eastern Poland, about 60 kilometers away from the current confrontation between the two sides, and was a defense system used to resist the Soviet armored forces, and was designed on a scale comparable to the "Truman Line" built by the Allies on the Franco-German border. In the current situation, it is still a big uncertainty whether this line will be successfully completed, and there are widespread fears that the Soviets will launch a large-scale offensive before the onset of winter, and once this fear becomes a reality, the small German army could be crushed to powder by the steel fist of the Soviet army.

It was not until September 27 that the 12 minesweepers included in the German Navy were put in place by the Royal Navy, none of which exceeded 300 tons, reminiscent of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet and the Third Reich. The two Reich marshals Raeder and #Janitz were still in the Allied high-level detention center, and the commander-in-chief of the small German defense fleet was the little-known Matthew. Lieutenant Colonel Darmstt, an unlucky guy who missed almost the entire Second World War due to a serious stomach problem, was also the second "Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy" to come from a submarine force.

In the pouring rain, more than 400 officers and sailors who had put on their uniforms but could not wear the eagle insignia held a small raising ceremony in Bremerhaven, the news was not publicized through the radio or newspapers, and the Allies imposed special martial law on several nearby main streets that day, but thousands of people spontaneously crossed the only passable bridge to the docks to witness the rebirth of this fleet, which had twice terrified the world and twice accepted a tragic fate.

The German Defence Fleet, whose home port was Bremen and could barely leave the shore, was soon sent to the Baltic Sea to clear the mines laid by Soviet submarines and aircraft that were used to impede the movement of Allied ships, and the Allies carved out a dock in the former Königsberg for the temporary use of this minesweeper formation. In this case, the German naval personnel who remained in Bremen had only barges and kayaks at their disposal, while another equally unknown senile officer turned the page of his own in history, whose full name was Alfred. Pais. Feng. Grent, born in 1880, spent most of his life at the Naval Academy, and neither Tirpitz nor Raeder had ever joined the Navy's combat corps, or even advised on naval logistics. The American-British Allied officials probably felt that such a purely academic, nerdy man was a safe and reliable task, so they appointed him in charge of the general logistics of the German defense fleet, and allocated a small sum of money for them to repair the barracks and set up a hospital. The old gentleman was not ambiguous, the 500-person naval hospital was set up within a week, and there were no naval casualties, so they provided medical assistance to the local German people in Bremen free of charge. Glent launched a fundraising initiative with his former colleagues and family members, and he quickly received a large amount of donations. The Allied barracks was a bomb-damaged dwelling during the war, and the old gentleman filled the logistics maintenance quota given by the Allies in one go, and let the young men do the work of masons. Not only have the barracks been renovated, classrooms, libraries and canteens have been vacated, families of displaced former Navy veterans and detainees have been admitted free of charge, and beginner naval courses have been given to logistics and maintenance staff. What was even more surprising to the Allied top brass was that these German naval personnel, who had received enough supplies every week to fill their stomachs, still had surplus food to rescue refugees in Bremen and surrounding cities. They organized mobile detachments to bring food and medicine to help their compatriots who had been uprooted from their homeland - most of whom had retreated from the eastern part of Germany at the end of the war, and because East Prussia and eastern Prussia had been under Soviet occupation until a few months earlier, the people were homeless, and they could not be properly resettled in the occupied areas of the Western Allies, so they had to live in abandoned and dilapidated houses and even camps, and their living conditions were very poor. Clear