This encounter was within Balzen's expectations, but also exceeded his imagination. The pursuers after the night battle turned out to be not Germans, but the rebellious Red Army.
These two hundred people were driven together, one or two dead squatting with their heads in their hands. Yang Mingzhi did not see such a scene. If he were present at this moment, he would definitely think that this was not a bunch of prisoners of war captured at all, but a bunch of prisoners of war.
Caught two hundred hooligans.
The condition of this group of people is indeed very bad! They also set out early in the morning, were in poor mental condition, and encountered a sudden heavy rain early in the morning. In addition to the heavy burden, the cotton clothes were absorbing water and were desperately absorbing the human body.
The heat made most of them pale from the cold.
In fact, many people were covered in smoke, and their whole bodies were hot because of the fighting and the beatings they received.
Balzen was not very happy to suddenly capture such a group of prisoners. It would have been nice if they were a group of German soldiers, so that they could add more color to their record. It was really unlucky that they captured a bunch of traitors this time.
Balzen spat at him contemptuously, glanced at him casually, and then pointed.
The soldier understood the situation and pulled out three of them from the crowd, twisting them before dragging them before the commander.
The Soviet army's policy towards traitors has always been extremely harsh. Lavrenti and Yevgeny's idea was very simple - with the machine guns set up, they would all suddenly fall away. Balzen was not so reckless. Before dealing with them, he asked them to find out who they were.
Details.
Therefore, when Balzen saw a man with a stubble on his face and seemed to be forty years old, he immediately asked him his identity.
Unexpectedly, this man was unusually calm. The corners of his mouth were bleeding from the beating, but he stood as straight as a pine tree. This man told himself about his origin, which surprised Balzen.
"I am a Pole and a farmer. You Russians invaded my country and killed my family. I concealed my name and was unexpectedly captured by you. I never considered myself one of yours. You are a group of invaders.
, now is my time for revenge!"
The Soviet Union did carve up Poland with Germany, and the national borders were changed. Therefore, the Soviet defense facilities also moved westward. Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Stalin and everyone in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party fell into a long period of vacillation in international relations.
.The aggressive Germany has always been a threat, so a large number of young people in the former Polish territory were also forcibly recruited into the army.
This man only said a few words, and Balzen finally understood his thoughts.
If you look at the problem from his perspective, the Soviet Union is the absolute aggressor, but isn't Germany the same?
Balzen tried his best to calm down and said: "The Soviet Union liberated half of Poland, you should be lucky! But you are a landlord, the enemy of our proletariat. You may be a good landlord, but you hinder the development of society."
"Bah! You Russians have always been a group of robbers. When you come here, you will just kill people everywhere!" After that, the man also chatted in return.
When Lavrenti heard this, he became angry: "We are not here to chat with you, a traitor. I will kill you now!" As he said that, he raised the submachine gun on his chest. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, the gun
Guan was grabbed by Balzen and dozens of bullets flew into the sky.
"Comrade! Let's at least interrogate him first! Don't be too impulsive!"
After appeasing the old man, Balzen had suppressed his anger for a long time.
He continued to cross-examine: "Since you accuse us of being a group of butchers, aren't the Germans the same? They burned, killed, looted and enslaved your compatriots in Poland, killing and torturing thousands of people!"
"No! Because I am German!" This man was extremely proud when he said this.
There are indeed many Germans living in Poland, and this was already the case here during the previous Tsarist Russia era. Many Germans here have become Polish, but they look very similar to Germans. So when Poland was occupied, Hitler immediately launched a "German
"Germany" policy, so German-born Poles naturally identify with Germany, which occupied Poland.
On the other side, in the Soviet-occupied areas, what was unfolding was completely a social revolution. Many lower-class Poles began to identify with the Soviet Union, while those in the middle and upper classes were completely opposed to it.
On the Polish issue, Balzen had to admit that the Soviet army did carry out the so-called massacre of the Poles. In fact, in his opinion, it was completely right for the capitalists to physically eliminate those landlords. Ordinary Soviet soldiers could not disobey Stalin.
The command.
Balzen allowed the man to continue, and his next words were even more thoughtful.
This person continued: "You Soviets are not good people, and the real Poles are not friendly either!" He mentioned another large-scale massacre that occurred in April 1939.
Germany and the Soviet Union did carve up Poland, but this was not without excuses. If the Soviet Union wanted to carve up half of Poland in retaliation for their indiscriminate massacre and aggression against the fledgling Soviet Union twenty years ago, then one of Germany's reasons
, in revenge for the Danzig Massacre.
In 1918, the Treaty of Versailles caused Germany to lose part of its territory, and a town called Bromberg was assigned to Poland. Anticipating the inevitable war between Poland and Germany, the Poles were extremely confident that Poland would defeat Germany, so the butcher's knife first attacked
The Germans in the country are accurate. This town has not been assigned to Germany for a long time, and the local residents cannot disguise themselves as pure Poles like the Germans in other areas.
Thousands of villagers were killed, and 50,000 people were killed in the entire Danzig Corridor.
Sure enough, the war broke out as the Poles expected, but the outcome of the war was completely beyond the Poles' imagination. The powerful German army captured Poland in a flash, and the Soviet Union also took the opportunity to send millions of troops from the east to fight.
Hitler found a reason to retaliate against the Poles. These people who once imagined that they could remain independent in the new war became subjugated slaves one by one. On the contrary, those Germans who were forced to endure quickly joined the German army. Joining the East was only part of it.
, quite a few people became the logistics troops of the German army.
Balzen already had a naturally bad influence on the Poles. After hearing this man's story, his prejudice against him became even deeper.
He asked about this person: "You may not be considered a traitor at all. You have never identified with your own Soviet soldiers! So would you mind telling me about your defense line? We would like to know the current defense layout and troop distribution of the German army."
"Bah! I won't tell you such a thing!" He spat, and the spittle flew directly onto Balzen's face.
While pretending to be calm and wiping off the dirt, Balzen was looking at another group of people, who must have the same origin as this person, either Germans among the Poles, or prisoners of war who did not want to die. In short, since they are now
He is also wearing a Soviet army cotton coat, indicating that he was once a Soviet soldier.
Balzen continued: "I remember your story completely, it's very interesting. Since you are unwilling to tell us the information, we have to eliminate them all! But if you change your mind, I can still spare your life!"
The man looked ferocious and said viciously: "Then I would rather die!"
But not all people are so generous. There is also a person who boldly stood up from the trembling crowd and shouted: "I do!"
Balzen continued to bicker with the dissatisfied guy, but Balzen was no longer interested. He ordered the soldiers to pull out the guy who betrayed the Germans again, and ordered the death penalty for the rest.
This was simply what the Soviet soldiers wanted. Lavrenti and Yevgeny carried out the order mechanically. A burst of gunfire came from the dense forest. The soldiers who had completed the execution put away their guns with a numb look on their face...