After Henschel was captured, he was forced to work as a farmer. The Soviets did not shoot him and his brothers simply and brutally, but they did not give them good treatment either.
They wore their original clothes and had all their epaulets removed. These people picked up shovels and worked hard to dig potatoes in the land, while the women in the village acted as supervisors, holding rifles and supervising the work of several people.
Several people were very dissatisfied with this, and their passive attitude directly angered the peasant woman. A gunshot rang out, and a bullet hit the ground in front of the prisoner.
The peasant woman cursed a lot, but the Germans couldn't understand her at all.
"It's better to work quickly, otherwise our current benefits will be gone!" Henschel ordered the people.
"But we are soldiers of the National Defense Force. Even if we become prisoners of war, we should not be farmers!"
Henschel paused and walked up to these people. "You have all seen the Soviet prisoners of war captured by us. You don't understand what they look like? If the Soviets intend to retaliate, we will only be able to wear single clothes here."
Work."
As soon as this was said, everyone was speechless.
"What's more, these barbarians have not signed the Geneva Convention at all. What else can we do?"
Ask yourself, this strange group of Soviet troops have been very good to prisoners of war. At least the residences are kept warm in cold weather, and people will not freeze to death. The meals they eat every day are just simple potatoes, so they will not starve to death.
The German army killed Soviet prisoners of war at will, or simply refused to give food, or gave them a little, and watched the prisoners kill each other. If Jews, gypsies or members of the Soviet Communist Party were found among them, the German army would kill them immediately.
After Henschel and his men said this, all excavation work stopped.
This suddenly turned into a sabotage by everyone. The peasant women were confused about the current situation and immediately reported it to the army. Soon, all seven prisoners of war were turned to the military camp interrogation room.
"You are not digging potatoes properly and are slacking off. What do you want to do? Are you unwilling to cooperate with us?" Yelentina put on a scary posture and asked these people.
Henschel immediately showed an attitude that he knew he was wrong, but he nodded and bowed a little, which made his subordinates very ashamed.
He explained the reason for the incident.
Jelentina slowly raised her head and looked sharply at the soldiers behind Henshel.
"You Nazis, because you are not SS soldiers, I have ordered your lives to be spared. But the premise of this is that you cooperate with us, otherwise what use do I need from you?"
"No! We are not Nazis! We are the Wehrmacht, we are soldiers. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders!" a soldier corrected.
This person spoke too directly, and others were afraid that these words would anger the woman in the blue hat in front of them.
Yelentina stood up and walked quietly to this person.
"In obedience to the orders of your Nazi superiors, you deliberately massacred our ordinary residents. I tell you, most of the Soviet residents where you are here have a bloody hatred for you.
They don't care whether you are the SS or the Wehrmacht. We don't want to find out whether you are following orders when killing people or because of your personal intentions. Anyway, you are all Germans. The peasant woman has exercised great restraint by not shooting you.
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These words couldn't help but make Henschel think about it. This is why, without the protection of soldiers, they would have been beaten to death by Soviet villagers.
Yelentina continued: "You think digging potatoes is an insult to you. If you feel insulted, commit suicide. You would rather be captured than commit suicide with a gun. You are still hiding in the pile of dead people trying to pretend to be dead. Even if you are a soldier,
, you are not qualified either! Now I tell you, you dig potatoes to get the next meal of food. If you refuse to dig, where will the food come from? "
Yelentina explained the simple truth. There are no idlers here. "You are a group of cheap laborers, and only labor deserves food supplies. Besides, what you eat is no different from that of most Soviet people. You invaders plunder
Our food is only preserved potatoes. So what’s the point of complaining now?”
Henschel heard this and promised to continue cooperating.
At this moment, his heart has been shaken. If he had the integrity, he would have committed suicide long ago. Now he is captured obviously because he is a coward. Then a coward is worthy of this military uniform.
No matter what his men thought, Henschel just wanted the Soviets to keep their word.
Digging potatoes meant digging for one's own rations, and German prisoners of war were no longer passive. During the past few days of being captured, Henschel discovered that this place was clearly a large military camp.
Shockingly, they also have tanks.
Doesn't it mean that it is difficult for tanks to travel in swamps? Maybe this is just for German tanks. This is still the territory of the Soviet Union, and they know better here.
The tanks alone were not enough. When there was a strange noise in the sky, the prisoners of war were still digging potatoes.
Until a group of soldiers with live ammunition turned them away and the work at hand stopped completely.
When Henschel was being escorted, he saw the door of a large wooden house opening and a fighter jet flying out.
"Oh my god, you have an air force!"
The soldiers didn't let a few of them stop. They took them all away, stuffed them all into their barracks, and locked the door.
But a few hours later, an unkempt man was also pushed into the room. Henschel saw that the man was dressed and had a face, and he immediately asked: "dichdeurschen?"
"ja" pilot Hans was thrown into this cell all at once, waiting for interrogation. Unexpectedly, he was not the only prisoner, and Hans immediately became energetic.
The compatriots wanted to have mixed feelings, so the German prisoners immediately started talking, and both groups had the same purpose.
"Now we all know that the enemy is here. The size of the Soviet army in this swamp is at least one division." Henschel said with a wry smile. He deliberately said that the strength of the Soviet army was very large, but the actual combat troops were only more than 5,000 people.
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"There are so many people! I saw their camp in the sky is very huge. No!" Henschel stood up immediately, "I have to escape back and recover."
"Don't worry. Although you will be unhappy, our situation is very dangerous. Even if we escape, we have to look for opportunities. Now we can only give in."
Henschel didn't know who would win the war, so he was asked to choose whether to escape to the German camp. After all, this place was full of angry residents who wanted to eat him.
Hans and Henschel discussed a lot.
"Now you try to cooperate as much as possible, otherwise you will definitely be abused. Even if you betray them (715th Division officers), it doesn't matter. After all, they sent us to die!"
These were originally words from the Cholera Army, but Hans did not respond immediately.
At this time, a group of soldiers arrived, the door was opened, and Hans was about to be taken away.
"Mark my words! In this damn war, be smart and don't provoke them, because that is asking for death!" Henschel finally warned. (To be continued.) u