Chapter 567: 567 Differentiation
A train was speeding through the woodlands of western Poland and soon began to slow itself down in front of a small station. On the platform, the SS soldiers, who had already taken their positions, carried submachine guns with indifferent expressions on their faces.
It is surrounded by barbed wire, and unlike other small stations, there are tall watchtowers on all four corners of this station, and MG42 machine guns are also mounted on the watchtowers. On the watchtower also stood SS soldiers with their hands behind their backs, stern and gloomy.
In the center of the platform, two guards with rifles led the wolfdogs, guarding the middle-aged officer who was smiling at the incoming train. And behind these three people, there stood a lot of decent businessmen in suits, who waited anxiously, waiting for the incoming train to bring the goods they wanted.
With the sound of a vent valve, the train finally stopped at the platform, and then one by one the guards jumped off the train, unlocked the locks on the tin cars, and forcefully opened the heavy tin gates.
One by one, the yellow-skinned men in the uniforms of the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army showed their faces, and they stared at the Germans on the platform in horror, so frightened that they could not speak for a while.
"Get out of the car!" a fierce voice roared hoarsely from the side, in Russian, so that the people in the carriage could understand the meaning of the sentence. With this roar, some German soldiers began to pull the bolt. The wolfdog began to roar at the sound of the bolt pulling, and the atmosphere on the platform immediately became terrifying.
"Get off the train quickly!" The German officer standing in the middle of the platform said with a smile, but his tone was chilling: "You are all important assets of the Empire, I don't want to waste it, understand?"
The first Soviet prisoner of war got out of the carriage nervously and was soon arranged to the far left, where there stood an amiable old man with a chubby Russian translator.
This old man was no ordinary man, he was the head of the most senior ammunition processing plant in the German factory in Poland, and he was also one of the top Jewish capitalists in Germany. Because he had taken refuge in Accardo relatively early, he was sent to Poland to be responsible for the development and development of advanced industries. Relying on good relations with the SS and a strong official background, he controlled the production of high-end industrial products upstream in Poland, and thus made a lot of money.
Of course, he also had the nickname "Jesus" in Poland, because his factory had the lowest mortality rate in the whole of Poland. Poles who know the situation like to do everything possible to work in his factory, and if they are lucky, they can even get mixed with the civilian household registration of the Third Reich and completely get rid of the identity of the occupied zone.
His factories have Polish military-industrial complexes, the processing of shells for civilian cars, and the manufacture of some chemicals. In the most core part, it even involves the improvement and implementation of some chemical products, which are done by the people of Poland, which can be said to be a relatively advanced colonial production model.
Because a large number of scientists, engineers and other high-tech personnel were recruited, and the factories produced relatively high-end products in the German industrial chain, the factories of "Jesus" were similar to those in Germany except for the strict implementation of the registered production system and the centralized management system, so they were also "concentration camps" with relatively loose management in Poland.
Of course, the area he was responsible for was also part of the Shiyàn zone, a model of German-Polish friendship and cooperation, and was protected and strictly controlled by the SS as part of Germany's policy of assimilation towards Polish territory. The welfare here is very different from that of other parts of Poland – there are even markets and Sundays in the concentration camps run by "Jesus".
The industrial structure of the German occupation zone was slowly transforming and developing under Speer's arrangement, and the French region, which had an industrial base, began to be responsible for the production of finished civilian automobiles, as well as military motorcycles and artillery. The German army's 88 mm anti-aircraft guns and 150 mm towed howitzers have been finished in France, and consumable spare parts such as gears and tracks, as well as ammunition and other munitions materials originally produced in France, have begun to be produced in Poland on a large scale.
"Young man, you are very cooperative, so you have been assigned to me, and soon you will know exactly what your cooperative attitude has brought you. The old man "Jesus", who looked at the young Soviets, said with a smile behind his back with his hands behind his back, and the translator behind him began to translate the old man's words at about the same time.
"You...... What do you want me to do?" asked the young Soviet Red Army soldier with a little nervousness, looking at the kind-looking old man.
"Transporting coal, labor. After hearing the translator's words, the old man replied with a smile: "It's all physical work, but the pay is good, and I only work 13 hours a day." ”
Not far away, a German officer standing on a high platform was asking in Russian aloud a group of Soviet soldiers pouring out of the carriages: "Who can write? Who knows German? Has anyone ever worked in a factory?"
Soon the unfortunate statistics came out, and it was clear that skilled workers were also in great need for the Soviet Union, so there were very few prisoners who had worked in factories, and only one had worked as a textile worker for a few days. German-speaking people were also very rare, and there were about 4,000 captives in this whole batch, and no more than 15 German-speaking people, so the status of these people also rose.
"Ten of you! Go to the first district! Hurry up!" To the Soviets who could speak German, the German officer tested it slightly in German, and then gave the results of the assignment: "The remaining three, you, you and you, go to the second district, don't be abrasive! Quick! The remaining two, go to the third district! Find your own person in charge!"
In Poland, the concentration camps were divided into three different levels, and the barracks of the Class A concentration camps were generally the original Polish barracks, some of which were newly built camps, and the conditions were relatively good, and there were medical centers and markets, similar to a closed town, except that each such town had to constantly produce a certain product, such as sapper shovels, such as tank tracks.
The conditions in the Category B concentration camps were even worse, and most of the prisoners of war in them were coolies with no skills, and they were responsible for farming and transporting coal, including digging mines and building roads.
As for the concentration camps of category C, they are hellish deposits, and the most brutal part of the management of Accardo is this type of concentration camp. The people here are generally engaged in the most degrading jobs, such as the destructive mining of some metal deposits, and so on—in many cases they are deprived of food rations and unclothed, compared to the concentration camps of another time and space.
This is a new type of colonization model of oppression that Accardo came up with, which is to win over some people, neutralize some people, and squeeze some people. Divide the occupied areas with differential treatment, disintegrate the basis of resistance of the other side, and eliminate the will of the majority of the people to resist. In addition, it can make the most efficient use of the original industrial system in the occupied areas, and lay a solid foundation for Germany to expand the scale of industrial production and improve the efficiency of industrial production.
It is also inevitable that these manufacturers do not rush to distribute these prisoners of war in person, because under the concentration camp system in Poland, the number of prisoners of war represents productivity, and the productivity can eventually be transformed into products, and the products can be exchanged for a large number of "rice coupons", and these "rice coupons" can be exchanged for things in the future are too exciting......
Last time, the big arms dealers and big chaebols who were about to go bankrupt with a large number of "Mifu coupons" in their hands ushered in a gorgeous turn at the last minute, and the Bai Lanhua Group was broken up and compensated to these desperate big capitalists - these people got crazy benefits, so when the government paid off the debt and launched a new batch of "Mifu coupons" again, these big chaebols did not hesitate to continue to invest in this lucrative pre-production.
Relying on such a transition, the German government even opened the prelude to a new round of arms expansion, and without a penny, they sent one order after another to manufacturers, and those manufacturers frantically started to build all kinds of military equipment to contribute to the strengthening of the Wehrmacht's weapons and equipment.
Within a month of industrial integration, German factories delivered a large number of artillery and tanks and armored vehicles to the front. Even in two relatively well-preserved places in Britain, the construction of German aircraft carriers began - counting the two in the German dockyards, Germany has expanded the number of future aircraft carriers to a terrifying number of nine in one fell swoop.
Accardo and his admirals were confident that the number of this fleet was sufficient to complete the defense of the Atlantic barrier, and as long as the fleet was not completely annihilated, landing in Europe would be an impossible plan.
One by one, the prisoners of war were put into trucks, some walked along the barbed wire fence into the category B concentration camp behind the station, and some were guarded by SS soldiers and walked to the category C concentration camp in the distance, where hellish life awaited these poor people from ethnic Russians.
There was also a clear distinction between the German army's treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, most of the Belarusians and Ukrainians were released home, even the few who were left in the concentration camps were treated preferentially, and most of the Russians were handed over to the Ukrainians, which not only facilitated supervision and management, but also further intensified the contradictions between these races.