Following the order, the soldiers immediately began searching the entire building.
The building is divided into two floors. For fear of hiding enemies, soldiers armed with submachine guns carefully walked on the rubble-filled stairs and prepared to check all the rooms. In order to capture the prisoners, they did not choose to use grenades to clear the way, but kicked them away.
They stopped and simply shouted "surrender".
No matter whether there are people inside or not, soldiers with guns will rush in fearlessly.
The soldiers encountered no resistance and discovered that this was a dormitory. They searched the entire room and uncovered some terrified men under the beds.
These people were definitely not German soldiers. They were crying and shouting for mercy in Russian.
"Damn it! You traitors! If it weren't for the temporary order, I would kill you right now!" A soldier growled viciously at his prisoners.
Although these are not Germans, they are working for Germany and sleeping in this killing factory! Their status is extraordinary.
In this way, the soldiers, including the injured German soldiers, found fifteen guys. These people knelt down in a row, facing a group of gray-faced armed men with sharp eyes. Not only one of them peed on the spot.
Yang Mingzhi raised his submachine gun, looked at these people with disdain, and asked: "Which of you can understand Russian? Can anyone tell me where this place is? I will spare his life!"
As soon as this statement came out, some people raised their hands on the spot.
Yang Mingzhi signaled to his men to drag this man in front of him. He still looked down at this poor guy from a high position. Perhaps because of the promise of survival, this man was full of flattery.
"Tell me! Are you a Belarusian or something? What on earth are you doing here?"
This half-bald guy didn't dare to hide anything. He called himself Ivanov, and he and his guys were all villagers in this area.
"The Germans ordered us to work here. They promised us enough food and that our families would be well taken care of. But as a condition, we must stay here until we have permission from the Germans to go home for a visit.
In fact, we are under house arrest by them in this building, and our daily job is to burn human corpses to ashes."
"So, you are just a bunch of corpse-burners?" Yang Mingzhi continued to ask, suppressing his emotions.
"Yes! The Germans transport people here every day, sometimes more people, sometimes less people. But no matter how many people are brought, they will soon turn into corpses. There are men, women, and children. Judging from the shape of the corpses,
I know these were mostly Jews! Sometimes there were dead prisoners of war, but we burned them with their clothes on, because their clothes were considered worthless by the Germans.”
This guy named Ivanov didn't confess much, but he confessed the Nazi killing methods, which shocked everyone who heard it.
The people who were driven off the train in civilian clothes took off their clothes as soon as they got off the train, and were then driven to take a bath. After taking a bath, they were promised to live in the camp on the other side of the railway. After taking a "chlorine bath", the corpses were
Soldiers in gas masks were pushed out, and they checked the bodies again, looking for necklaces and rings, and knocking out teeth if they saw which ones were good. Finally, the bodies were transported to the crematorium and burned into ashes, and the ashes were piled into gray hills.
Such an industrialized killing method is incredibly efficient!
"We have ten furnaces here. Each furnace can burn four adults at a time. It only takes half an hour to burn only ashes. I have been working here for a long time. I am the supervisor of the crematorium. How many corpses are burned every day?
There are records..."
"Wait!" Yang Mingzhi immediately interrupted him: "Do you still have records in this area?"
"Yes, because the Germans want to ensure that everyone sent here turns to dust!"
As soon as the Soviet-German war broke out, the German army started genocide against the Jews in the occupied areas. Not only the Jews, but also anyone with anti-German intentions were killed. This guy confessed a complete set of German killing procedures, and Yang Mingzhi realized,
This person now has significant existence value.
In the future, if the "Nuremberg Trials" become a fact, this person will have value as a witness.
Originally, after receiving the information, all the prisoners would be killed, including this person.
Now, Yang Mingzhi has changed his mind: "Ivanov, the information you provided is very important! It seems that you and your people know too much about the Germans, so you don't have to die!"
This decision shocked Balzen. He approached the commander and whispered: "Commander, aren't we going to kill all these guys?"
"No! The situation has changed!" Yang Mingzhi shouted: "Bierski!"
Bielski, who couldn't find a chance to take a photo with his camera, ran over.
"Dear Bielski, I think your camera can't shoot at night! Now let me tell you the good news. We will take these corpse cremators back. They know all the ways the Germans kill civilians! Wait until we withdraw.
Here, you interrogate them immediately and continue the interrogation when you return."
Bielski fully understood what the officer meant. Letting the people know about the brutality of the Nazis is not just about shouting slogans. Real and bloody cases can best inspire the people's will to resist! It can also make frontline soldiers tolerate being captured.
If you give up your illusions, you can truly fight to the last man.
This Ivanov received a real promise of survival, and even gave him a cigarette to calm his shock. The man showed more cooperation and immediately invited him upstairs.
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "Abram, follow me, let's find more information."
More than a dozen people went up to the second floor and entered the office, which had been searched.
There was nothing special about this so-called office. There was only a desk and a cabinet. The soldiers searched the place, but they were only looking for someone and did not pry the desk.
Ivanov pointed to the locked wooden cabinet and said: "This is it! My burning record is here, and there are other documents besides it."
"Other documents? What are they?"
"It's some German order documents, and a map. That map may be very important to you, and it's marked in great detail. For example, some are simply for detaining prisoners of war, some are for simply executing Jews, some are for detaining anti-German people, and even!
"
Speaking of this, Ivanov obviously hesitated.
"Tell me, what else is special?"
Ivanov swallowed and said: "We learned that some concentration camps are dedicated to transporting children, and they are girls. I have personally seen a train passing here pulling a large group of young girls, and I also know that they
I want to move Germany and work as a maid for a German family! I even know the name of that concentration camp!"
There is such a thing! Yang Mingzhi immediately ordered Abram to smash open the wooden cabinet.
Before the attack, he estimated that some good things would be discovered in this battle. After all, Novgomel's geography and current situation determine that it has a natural lack of information. It is unclear what kind of cruel policies the Germans are implementing in Belarus.
It is more meaningful than directly seizing their order documents.
In fact, there were more documents in the bombed Leopovka German Army Headquarters. They had been destroyed along with the building. The small wooden cabinet found in the crematorium suddenly had special significance.