Before Sokov left Zhukov's office, he remembered the double who was locked in the basement, so he stopped and asked: "Comrade Marshal, I would like to ask, what do you plan to do with the people locked in the basement?"
Zhukov did not answer Sokov's question, but waved his hand and said: "From now on, this man's life and death has nothing to do with you and me. How to deal with him will naturally be decided by Sokolov, who succeeded me.
Commander Ski will decide." Sokov didn't say anything, but he knew very well in his heart that it wouldn't take long for the double who was being held tightly to disappear. But that person's life and death had nothing to do with him, so he'd better mind his own business.
For the best, he raised his hand to Zhu Ke
The husband saluted, turned around and walked out of the office.
After returning to the hotel from the headquarters, Sokov shut himself in the room, ignored what was going on outside the window, and was busy writing a novel. Unconsciously, it became dark, and the light in the room made Sokov a little confused.
Unable to understand the words on the paper, he stopped writing and raised his hand to look at the time. It was already six o'clock in the evening. He hadn't eaten all day and was already very hungry.
Cooing. He sorted out the manuscripts on the table, put them away, and walked out of the room, preparing to go to the restaurant for dinner.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the hall, he saw three familiar figures, not only Hosenfeld, Ernst and Bayer. When he saw this, he quickly walked over.
"Comrade General," the three of them saw Sokov walking toward them, and they quickly stood at attention and raised their hands to salute him.
After raising his hand to return the salute, Sokov asked curiously: "Why are you here?"
"Comrade General," Ernst, the only one of the three who knew Russian, said, "You helped my cousin find his wife and children. He came here specifically to thank you." After hearing this, Sokov waved his hand:
"Captain, if you want to thank you, you should still be Sergeant Shaibel. During our stay in Nuremberg, he and his son Zolda were the ones who were looking around for the whereabouts of your wife. Without them,
Father and son, it may not be easy to find your wife and children." "Comrade General, I have already expressed my gratitude to him." Hosenfeld said: "But without you taking him to Nuremberg, I'm afraid I
I didn’t have the chance to see Leoni and the children, so after I learned that you had returned to Berlin, I
I came here specifically to thank you.”
"Everyone is so familiar with each other, so there is no need to say polite words." Sokov asked the three of them: "Have you had dinner?"
The three of them shook their heads, indicating that they had not had dinner yet.
"Just in time, I'm going to the restaurant for dinner, so you can come together."
Sokov brought the three of them to the restaurant, and a waiter immediately came to greet him and asked politely: "Comrade General, what are you planning to eat tonight?"
"Just follow my usual menu and serve four portions."
As soon as the waiter walked away, Sokov said to the three of them: "I heard that the security team has started to perform patrol duties. How is it? Did you encounter any difficulties?" "No." Hosenfeld shook his head, feeling a little emotional.
He said excitedly: "Since the end of the war, Soviet troops have been patrolling the streets. The residents of the city suddenly saw an army of their own appearing on the streets. Naturally, they
A sense of intimacy. There are even residents who stopped our patrols and asked us about the whereabouts of their relatives." "Their relatives were either killed in the war or locked up in prisoner of war camps." Ernst finished translating Hosen.
After what Phil said, he said to himself: "I don't know what to do when I hear these questions from the residents.
What answer?"
"Of course, answer truthfully, so that they can know what they are aware of." Sokov said: "But I estimate that it will take several years for those prisoners of war in prison camps to be released." Although
Before coming here, Hosenfeld and others knew that the prisoners imprisoned in the prisoner of war camp would have to wait a long time to be released, but they did not expect that this time would last for several years, so the three of them met
noodle
After looking at each other, Hosenfeld asked again: "Comrade General, can this time be shortened?" "No," Sokov shook his head and said, "You should know that although my military rank is very high, in Berlin
But I don’t hold any position here, so even if I want the prisoners held in the prisoner of war camp to be released early, I don’t have any
Have any say."
Sokov's words caused the three of them to fall into silence.
After a long time, Ernst was the first to break the silence: "Comrade General, actually we are here to see you today, and there is one more thing we want to ask for."
"What happened?" Sokov asked.
"It's like this. My cousin has a neighbor who wants to join our police force." Ernst said hesitantly: "We want to ask if it is okay?"
"Is he also from the Wehrmacht?"
"Yes," Ernst answered the question, realizing that he might not have expressed it accurately enough, and quickly added: "But he left the army as early as after the Night of Long Knives." After hearing what Ernst said.
The "Night of the Long Knives" mentioned, Sokov remembered that it was Mustache's purge of the stormtroopers headed by Röhm. Could it be that Hosenfeld's neighbor turned out to be a stormtrooper? With this question, he asked
Hossenfel: "Captain Hossenfel, your neighbor turned out to be a storm trooper under Rohm?" After hearing Ernst's translation, Hosenfel was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Sokov had misunderstood him.
What he meant, he quickly explained to him: "Comrade General, you have misunderstood. My neighbor was cleared from the army and
Not because he is a member of the stormtroopers, but because he is a Jew." "What, a Jew?" Sokov's eyes widened in surprise. He did not expect that after the "Night of Long Knives", the Jews in the army would also suffer
When it came to the purge, “as far as I know, the Jews in Germany were either deported or died in
How did he survive in the concentration camp?" "Comrade General," Hoshenfeld explained to Sokov: "My neighbor's name is Bachner. Before he was expelled from the army, he was a second lieutenant in the Wehrmacht. The beginning of the country
During the large-scale liquidation of Jews, he was also arrested and sent to
He went to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Because of his strong body, he was not immediately sent to the gas chambers, but was engaged in heavy labor in the camp." When he heard about the Auschwitz concentration camp, Sokov couldn't help but wrinkled.
I frowned, thinking that this was a notorious death concentration camp. Almost no one who entered it survived, and this former Wehrmacht second lieutenant named Bachner was so...
How did he survive? "Captain Hosenfeld, as far as I know, all the Jews who entered the Auschwitz concentration camp in the early days were basically slaughtered. How did he survive?" "Comrade General, I just expressed
"I'm not sure." Hosenfeld continued: "Actually, there is another concentration camp a few kilometers away from Auschwitz, which is called Auschwitz 2.
It’s called the Birkenau concentration camp, and Bachner was sent to this concentration camp.”
&nbssp;Hosenfeld's words aroused great interest in Sokov. He looked at the other party and asked: "Captain, tell me, how did Bachner escape from danger?" "Bachner first worked in the concentration camp.
Hard labor. After a while, he was transferred to the corpse transport team, which was to drag the corpses of the poisoned Jews out of the gas chambers, put them on flatbed trucks and drag them to the incinerator.
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Go and burn it." Hossenfeld said: "But this work is not permanent. The guards will replace a new group of prisoners every three months, and the original prisoners will be dragged nearby and shot.
When it was their turn to be shot, due to the large number of people, they were shot in three batches, and Bachner was assigned to the third batch. When the guards finished shooting the first batch of prisoners and began to clean up the bodies, he
When someone was not paying attention, he secretly escaped into a nearby public toilet and hid in a cesspit. He endured the stench and hid in the cesspit for three days, and the feces that fell from above covered his neck. However,
In order to survive, he still gritted his teeth and persisted
On the evening of the third day, it rained heavily. He climbed out of the pit and ran to the barbed wire fence. He dug a passage under the barbed wire fence that could allow one person to pass through and escaped from Birkenau concentration camp. Escape
After coming out, he walked along the railway in the direction of Germany. When he passed a farmhouse on the road, he was discovered by a kind farmer. Not only did he put him in clean clothes, he even hid him in his cellar until Poland was conquered by the Soviet Union.
until the army occupied
.”
Sokov waited for Hosenfeld to finish his story and then asked: "Then when did he return to Berlin?"
"Just a few days ago."
"What, he just came back a few days ago?" Sokov frowned: "Even if he waited until the war was completely over before leaving Poland and returning to Germany, he couldn't have arrived now." "That's it, Comrade General.
." Hossenfeld said: "He was captured by a Soviet sentry when he was passing through the border between Poland and Germany. He thought he should be a German soldier who slipped through the net, so he was imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp. Until last month,
When he met a general who was inspecting the prisoner-of-war camp, he revealed his identity to him and showed him the prisoner number stamped on his wrist, and then he was released from the prisoner-of-war camp."
"Oh, that's it." After Sokov figured out what was going on, he nodded slowly, and then asked Hosenfeld: "Captain, if you let him join the guard force, what position do you plan to let him hold?
"I can let him serve as my deputy." After Hosenfeld said this, seeing Sokov's expression a little unnatural, he quickly added: "He has been away from the army for too long and is not suitable for specific positions."
position, therefore
I think it's okay to keep him in the garrison to assist me in my work. Comrade General, are you willing to see him? If you agree, I can bring him to see you." Sokov immediately thought that the other party was covered in blood.
At the scene of feces, he suddenly felt something in his stomach rushing directly to his throat. He quickly covered his mouth to prevent him from vomiting it out in public and damaging his image. He waited for the emotion to calm down.
After he stabilized, he released the hand covering his mouth and waved to Hosenfeld: "Captain, since he won't be assigned a specific position, if you are willing to keep him, then let him stay." Sokov agreed.
He was so happy because he was about to leave Berlin. As for the person in charge later, if the personnel arrangements for the police force had nothing to do with him, he would just do it as a favor and leave it to Hosenfeld and others.
The next good impression. Only a limited number of people knew about the news that Sokov was leaving Berlin. Naturally, Hossenfeld and others would not know about it. When he heard that Sokov agreed to keep Bachner, he quickly stood up and asked Sokov
Salute and express my gratitude to him
.
After several people finished their dinner and chatted for a few more words, they dispersed.
Sokov returned to his room, intending to continue writing the rest of the novel, but for some reason, he could not concentrate.
Seeing that he could not calm down and write the novel, Sokov simply threw the pen on the table, went straight to the bed, lay down, and began to close his eyes and meditate.
Soon, he fell asleep unconsciously.
In his dream, he dreamed that he followed Zhukov back to Moscow. The first thing he did when he arrived in Moscow was to rush home and reunite with Asya.
Asiya was very happy to see Sokov's return. She went up to him and gave him a hug. She also asked him with concern: "After you come back this time, you won't leave again, right?"
"Don't leave, don't leave." Sokov answered very simply: "I will not leave your side again until our child learns to walk."
Unexpectedly, Asiya straightened her face and said with some displeasure: "When you stay with me, will you miss that woman far away in Berlin?"
When Sokov heard what Asiya said, he was suddenly startled into a cold sweat. He thought, could Asiya know about what happened between him and Agelina?
Just when he was panicking, Asiya pointed to the door and said to him: "Go and open the door quickly. The woman you are missing is here to find you!"
The next moment, there was indeed a loud knock on the door.
Sokov suddenly woke up from his dream, sitting on the bed and breathing heavily to relieve his nervousness. Soon, Sokov's mood slowly stabilized, but what he heard in his dream
The knocking on the door did not stop, it was still knocking rhythmically. Sokov looked at the door with horror on his face, wondering whether he was dreaming.
, you still wake up, why hasn’t the knocking on the door stopped?
He calmed down and realized that he had woken up. The knock on the door was not an auditory hallucination caused by him, but someone was indeed knocking on the door.
He rolled out of bed and without even having time to put on his boots, he walked barefoot to the door and asked outside: "Who is it? Who is outside the door?"
"Misha!" A familiar voice came from outside the door: "It's me, I'm Agelina!"
After hearing clearly that it was Adelina's voice, Sokov opened the door without hesitation, and sure enough he saw Adelina standing outside the door. Behind Adelina, Vaseligov followed
, when he saw Sokov opening the door, he quickly raised his hand to salute, and reported respectfully: "Comrade General, I have brought Agelina back safely, and I have come back to you specially.
.”
"Thank you, Comrade Major." Sokov nodded to Vaserigov and said in a grateful tone: "Thank you for sending Agelina back."
After Vaserigov left, Sokov pulled Agelina into the room and closed the door with his heel: "Agelina, aren't you supposed to arrive in Berlin tomorrow morning? Why are you so early?
Here we are." Agelina stood on tiptoes, kissed Sokov on the cheek, and then said: "After you set off, Major Vaserigov said that when you returned to Berlin, there was no one around you to protect you, so I'm afraid you would
We encountered danger, so we set off overnight. Except for two stops for meals along the way, we didn’t stop at all and finally returned to Berlin half a day early.”
