These days, the main work carried out by the German army in that little remaining encirclement of Moscow has become accepting the countless surrendered civilians in the city of Moscow. Even with estimates of the number of civilians in Moscow, the German-prepared prisoner of war camps and other refugee camps were barely able to accommodate so many non-combatants.

The reception was not a simple resettlement process, and the Germans needed to screen every surrendered Russian and treat them separately. First of all, there are useful children and women, who have to be sent to concentration camps in Ukraine and undergo labor reform for three to five years before they can be released.

Middle-aged men and older men were forced to do hard labor or be sentenced to prison because they were likely to be involved in fighting back against the Germans. Another main reason for these people to be imprisoned is because Germany does not have food and supplies for free to subsidize these so-called civilians who surrendered without knowing their background.

When these people were in Moscow, most of them were soldiers with weapons to stop the German army, and now they want to be ordinary civilians and enjoy refuge treatment, which is obviously a bit naïve. Even the Germans found more than 20,000 young men among the surrendered civilians, and these people, based on past experience, were definitely Soviet soldiers who had served in the army.

"I'm a Ukrainian! I was taken by them and came here with the troops!" a young Soviet soldier with his hands held high pleaded to the German soldiers who had screened him, not knowing if the other party could understand him, so he could only shout these words over and over again, hoping to get the attention of other German soldiers in the crowd.

Behind the young Soviet soldier, who claimed to be a Ukrainian, two women were courting the German sergeant in front of them in flying Russian, and as they spoke, they spread out the gold rings and necklaces in their baggage and pushed them to the German sergeant in charge of the record: "Please, we can do anything, clean the house, cook food, anything! We are Belarusian...... Not ethnic Russians. ”

A little farther away, at the entrance of another civilian passageway, sitting in front of a German sergeant filling out a form on a table, a man in his fifties was shouting in broken German to the indifferent Germans: "Volga Germans! I am Volga Germans!"

Then the man, who claimed to be of German descent, could not speak any other German, and he continued to find a better way out for himself in Russian: "I am an architect, I went to school and I am literate......"

Because of the large number of civilians who surrendered, it was miraculously that no large-scale fighting broke out in the streets of Moscow in the last two days. The Germans did not rush forward to continue their advance, and the Soviets did not launch any acts of provocation. In fact, it was the Soviet side that took advantage, because if it weren't for so many civilians who stopped the German attack, it would not have been easy for them to hold their positions so easily.

Standing on the highest point of a ruin, a German major officer took a puff of a cigarette between his fingers and put it in his mouth, then exhaled a puff of white smoke and complained to the adjutant next to him: "If it weren't for this group of old and sick people, our troops might have been inspected by the Führer on Red Square......

"The fighting here is not so easy, there are Soviet snipers everywhere, and after we arrived at the southernmost entrance to the subway, the fighting broke out in the subway......" His adjutant was also swallowing the clouds, looking at the countless Soviet civilians and men and women passing by: "The headquarters is expected to fight here for another 20 days, or 30 days...... Who knows?"

"Do you mean that?" the major officer looked at a Soviet steel helmet with blood and bullet holes at his feet, and then at the ruined Soviet-occupied buildings and half-collapsed buildings in the distance, and continued: "We have reached Moscow, but we have not been able to catch a single Russian Soviet in the capital of the Soviet Union. ”

It was not a day or two since Germany occupied large areas of the Soviet Union, and the Soviets heard something about these German occupiers from various sources. Rumor has it that the Germans are more likely to treat Ukrainians and Belarusians, so many ethnic Russians in the Soviet Union, posing as the other two nationalities, tried to escape hard labor in the German-occupied territories.

Unfortunately, this is obviously an incomplete statement based on hearsay, but in fact, the official records of the German army show that the German High Command and the General Staff, the two supreme wartime command bodies, have never issued an order to exempt Ukrainian or Belarusian prisoners of war from hard labor. Two relatively similar orders were that families who served in the Ukrainian Army of the Third Reich could be pardoned for hard labor, and prisoners of war who had received a promise of exemption from hard labor during a particular battle could be pardoned for hard labor.

However, Ukrainian and Belarusian prisoners of war were happier than their Russian and Polish counterparts, and the intensity of hard labor in concentration camps was indeed lower. This is because the policy of differential treatment pursued by Germany in the occupied territories is to divide and disintegrate the resistance in the occupied territories. The Germans have redivided several large areas of their occupation into 40 concentration camp divisions, and divided the more than 1,700 large and small prisoner-of-war camps into three different levels for differentiated management.

And this time, the biggest beneficiary turned out to be a man who was originally a business playboy, an upstart named Frank Ellstoner. This man, who started by producing helicopters for the Wehrmacht, has now become a pivotal boss in the German aviation industry.

"It's an instinctive human fear, and anyone who is faced with such a powerful force has an instinctive fear and the idea of avoidance. The adjutant smiled and pointed to the Soviet civilians at his feet, whose heads were bowed and were divided into several groups to go to different administrative areas, and said with a smile: "It is a very difficult thing to make so many people afraid, and this is one of the reasons why I admire the Führer." ”

"It is difficult to make a people afraid, but it is not impossible. The true strong man seeks to be respected by a nation and to follow him into the future. The major threw the cigarette butt over the ruins, crushed the sparks with his leather boots, and said haughtily: "The Führer not only conquered one nation after another, but what I admire most is that he made our great Germany follow him willingly." ”

At the entrance of the passage not far from their feet, two German soldiers walked up to several boys with their heads bowed and wanted to blend into the passage, they held their guns and used the bayonets on their rifles to cross in front of each other, and explained their thoughts: "You guys, raise your heads!

The young Soviets were visibly stunned, then panicked, shouting in Russian, claiming that they had done nothing hostile to the Germans as civilians. The surrounding civilians also started to stir, and many people followed the plea to help these young people say some assurances and good words.

"Wow!" Looking at the uncontrollable crowd in front of them, the German soldiers did not feel any pity, and on a machine gun position not far from the entrance of the passage, the German shooter directly aimed the muzzle of the black hole of the MG-42 machine gun that had pulled the bolt open at the unarmed crowd.

"Stand back! or I'll order machine gun fire!" shouted another German officer standing at the entrance of the passage in Russian, his words haughty and imposing as a soldier of the Reich. Moreover, his education and life experience made him draw the pistol on his waist and aim it at the sky while shouting.

After only two seconds, seeing that the crowd had no intention of responding, he pulled the trigger of his pistol. After the gunshot, more German soldiers raised their guns in front of the crowd, and as long as the German officer gave an order, they would not hesitate to shoot, so that the chaotic crowd in front of them could learn how to obey the prescribed order.

Hearing a gunshot is always more likely to attract attention than hearing a shout. The sound of gunfire echoing in the sky reminded the Soviet civilians who had come to prepare the German dinner of their current situation. They were not presumptuous in the fact that they were presumptuous, so most of them began to retreat, looking at the fierce soldiers with horrified eyes.

After a while, the few young Soviet people who had gathered together to cross the passage were dragged out of the crowd of civilians by the German soldiers by the collars of their clothes. They staggered and were thrown into the clearing, and then German soldiers went up and punched and kicked them, and this age determined that they must not be Soviet civilians, but Soviet soldiers who had fought against the Germans with weapons.

"Knock! knock!" The quiet crowd of civilians watched as the children were beaten up and dragged by German soldiers to the prisoner of war passage on the other side. And the German soldiers standing around them still pointed their loaded muzzles at this side. No one continued to make noise, no one continued to stir, and the rest were just more cautious, walking through the narrow passages, allowing the Germans to search or point fingers at them.

"See? There's so much to learn. In order to become a true commoner of the Empire, you must first learn to act in order. The German major, who was standing on a high place, snorted coldly: "After today, most of the passages to receive prisoners of war will be closed, and the battle will continue, and this is the order." ”