The prisoner-of-war camp in Shepinka was built next to forests and swamps. It now houses more than 3,200 captured Soviet commanders and fighters, guarded by a company of SS soldiers.
Thirty thousand Soviet commanders and fighters entered this prisoner-of-war camp after being captured. After entering the prisoner-of-war camp, the SS would screen them and take all officers, political workers and Jews to the nearby forest and let them dig holes. After the pit is dug, all these commanders and fighters will be shot.
The surviving prisoners of war had to do heavy labor every day. Due to the harsh working and living conditions, many weak prisoners of war were exhausted to death; some prisoners of war were mercilessly killed by the SS because they violated camp regulations.
This morning, the sun rose from the east. Thousands of prisoners of war wearing prison uniforms stood in the open ground, surrounded by SS soldiers with guns. An SS officer was standing on a wooden structure. On the stage, he held a loudspeaker and spoke loudly.
It turned out that five prisoners of war had used the opportunity of shoveling snow a few days ago to dig a small hole for people to pass under the barbed wire fence on one side of the camp. After digging, they covered it with snow so that the SS guards did not notice it at all.
Last night they sneaked out of the barracks, clawed away the snow with their hands, got out of the hole in the barbed wire fence, and then fled towards the forest in the distance. But as they approached the forest, a prisoner of war who fell behind accidentally stepped on a mine and was blown to pieces on the spot.
The explosion alerted the SS in the camp, and they immediately dispatched with police dogs into the forest to hunt down the escaped prisoners of war. But at dawn, of the five prisoners of war who escaped from prison, one was killed by a landmine, two were shot to death randomly, and the remaining two were captured and were now kneeling in front of the wooden platform.
After the SS officer announced the crimes of the two prisoners of war in public, he quickly walked off the stage, came behind the two men, pulled out his pistol and shot them in the back of the head. The two prisoners of war didn't even make a sound and fell to the ground.
But the SS officer was still not relieved. He took the MP40 submachine gun from a soldier next to him and fired at the two corpses, causing them to twitch on the ground and raising countless dust.
The officer fired all the bullets in the magazine in one go, threw them back to the soldiers, then walked up to the prisoners of war, grabbed an old prisoner of war, and asked sternly: "What about their escape at night? do you know?"
"No, I don't know, Mr. Officer." The old prisoner of war hurriedly replied: "I don't know anything."
Unexpectedly, as soon as the elderly prisoner of war finished speaking, there was a clear gunshot, and then a hole appeared in his forehead. It was the shot fired by an angry officer.
The officer threw the body of the elderly prisoner of war aside, grabbed a middle-aged prisoner of war, and asked sternly: "Do you know about their escape from prison?"
The middle-aged prisoner of war saw the gun pointed at him and knew that no matter what he said, he would inevitably die. He raised his head and said in a contemptuous tone: "I don't know. Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you."
The middle-aged prisoner of war's words completely angered the officer. He put the pistol against the other's forehead and pulled the trigger suddenly. But the gun didn't go off. He was stunned for a moment, and then he pulled the trigger again and again, but it still didn't go off. It turned out that the gun had jammed.
Just when the officer was about to change his gun, there was suddenly a roar of a car motor. He turned around and saw that it was a convoy of twenty covered trucks, slowly following behind a barrel truck. Slowly drove into the camp area.
When the officer saw this, he thought it was a force coming to change defenses, so he temporarily gave up his plan to shoot the middle-aged prisoner of war. He turned the handle of his gun upside down and hit the prisoner twice on the forehead. Then he put away the pistol and walked towards the convoy. .
The middle-aged prisoner of war, who had narrowly escaped death, stood still and allowed the blood from the wound to flow down his face. He stared at the officer's back with angry eyes, eager to rush over and kill him.
After the convoy stopped, the tarpaulin behind the truck was opened, and the soldiers who jumped out were greeted by the officers and lined up beside the truck. When the SS officer walked near the barrel truck, the rear door opened and a Wehrmacht major walked out.
The SS officer was only the leader of the first-class commando squadron, which was equivalent to the rank of captain. Although the person coming was the Wehrmacht, which he had never looked down upon, the other party had a higher rank than himself, so he could only salute him first.
After the major waited for the SS officers to salute, he said slowly: "I am Major Dürer, Marshal Manstein's adjutant, and I have been ordered to take away all the Russian prisoners of war in the camp. This is the Marshal's order!" As he said, he read from the official document He took out a piece of paper from his bag and handed it to the SS officer.
The SS officer took Manstein's order, read it carefully, and asked puzzledly: "Mr. Major, I would like to ask why the marshal took away these Russian prisoners of war?"
Dürer snorted softly and said displeasedly: "Captain, what has your Excellency Marshal done, do you still need to report it to you?"
"Don't dare." The SS officer was dominating the prisoner-of-war camp, but in Manstein's eyes, he was just an inconspicuous little captain. To deal with him, he didn't even have to take action personally. As long as this intention is revealed, other officers will naturally deal with this SS officer. Therefore, he behaved extremely respectfully in front of Major Dürer: "Mr. Major, I just want to ask if my subordinates and I need any help?"
Dürer only brought more than 300 people with him this time. It was indeed a bit difficult to escort more than 3,000 prisoners of war to walk several kilometers to the exchange location. Since the SS officers offered to help, such free labor was naturally No need to use it. He nodded and said: "We are going to escort these Russian prisoners of war to the Russian defense line. In order to ensure that they arrive at the designated place one by one, you will remove half of the guards from the guards to help us complete this escort." "
The SS officer originally wanted to ask why the prisoners of war were escorted to the vicinity of the Russian army's defense area, and whether they were all to be shot there. But then he thought about it, he had just raised a question and was ridiculed by the other party, so he wisely closed his mouth and hid the question in his heart.
When the prisoners of war were escorted by the officers and soldiers of the National Defense Force and set off along the road, they all had numb expressions on their faces. For them, even if they were shot, there was nothing terrible. It was better than living in this damn prisoner of war camp. Life is not as good as death.
On the road, weak prisoners of war fell from time to time. In the past, when encountering this situation, the German soldiers responsible for escorting usually fired at the prisoners of war who fell on the ground to prevent them from being rescued by the guerrillas and becoming members of the guerrillas in the future. But today, not only did the soldiers not fire, but they asked the prisoners next to them to pick up the prisoners who fell on the ground and continue moving forward.
This abnormal behavior of the German army confused the prisoners of war. But they didn't dare to speak and could only communicate with their eyes, trying to figure out what was going on. But let alone the prisoners of war, even the SS guards who escorted them were also confused. When they saw a prisoner of war falling to the ground and were about to step forward to take his life, they were stopped by the Wehrmacht soldiers around them.
The SS soldiers were puzzled, so they secretly found their commander, reported this abnormal situation to him, and finally asked: "Mr. First Class Commando Squadron Leader, what should we do?"
The officer glared and said angrily: "Our mission is to assist the soldiers of the Wehrmacht to escort these damn Russian prisoners of war to the vicinity of the Russian defense area. As for why we can't kill those Russians who are slowing down the trip, I How do you know what's going on? Go back quickly and fulfill your duties."
After an hour of hard march, we finally approached the defense area of the Soviet 5th Mechanized Army.
Major Dürer, who was leading the team, quickly issued an order: "Stop advancing! Everyone stay where you are!"
After issuing this order, Major Dürer ordered his driver to speed up and rush to the Soviet defense line to communicate.
The prisoner-of-war camp in Shepinka was built next to forests and swamps. It now houses more than 3,200 captured Soviet commanders and fighters, guarded by a company of SS soldiers.
Thirty thousand Soviet commanders and fighters entered this prisoner-of-war camp after being captured. After entering the prisoner-of-war camp, the SS would screen them and take all officers, political workers and Jews to the nearby forest and let them dig holes. After the pit is dug, all these commanders and fighters will be shot.
The surviving prisoners of war had to do heavy labor every day. Due to the harsh working and living conditions, many weak prisoners of war were exhausted to death; some prisoners of war were mercilessly killed by the SS because they violated camp regulations.
This morning, the sun rose from the east. Thousands of prisoners of war wearing prison uniforms stood in the open ground, surrounded by SS soldiers with guns. An SS officer was standing on a wooden structure. On the stage, he held a loudspeaker and spoke loudly.
It turned out that five prisoners of war had used the opportunity of shoveling snow a few days ago to dig a small hole for people to pass under the barbed wire fence on one side of the camp. After digging, they covered it with snow so that the SS guards did not notice it at all.
Last night they sneaked out of the barracks, clawed away the snow with their hands, got out of the hole in the barbed wire fence, and then fled towards the forest in the distance. But as they approached the forest, a prisoner of war who fell behind accidentally stepped on a mine and was blown to pieces on the spot.
The explosion alerted the SS in the camp, and they immediately dispatched with police dogs into the forest to hunt down the escaped prisoners of war. But at dawn, of the five prisoners of war who escaped from prison, one was killed by a landmine, two were shot to death randomly, and the remaining two were captured and were now kneeling in front of the wooden platform.
After the SS officer announced the crimes of the two prisoners of war in public, he quickly walked off the stage, came behind the two men, pulled out his pistol and shot them in the back of the head. The two prisoners of war didn't even make a sound and fell to the ground.
But the SS officer was still not relieved. He took the MP40 submachine gun from a soldier next to him and fired at the two corpses, causing them to twitch on the ground and raising countless dust.
The officer fired all the bullets in the magazine in one go, threw them back to the soldiers, then walked up to the prisoners of war, grabbed an old prisoner of war, and asked sternly: "What about their escape at night? do you know?"
"No, I don't know, Mr. Officer." The old prisoner of war hurriedly replied: "I don't know anything."
Unexpectedly, as soon as the elderly prisoner of war finished speaking, there was a clear gunshot, and then a hole appeared in his forehead. It was the shot fired by an angry officer.
The officer threw the body of the elderly prisoner of war aside, grabbed a middle-aged prisoner of war, and asked sternly: "Do you know about their escape from prison?"
The middle-aged prisoner of war saw the gun pointed at him and knew that no matter what he said, he would inevitably die. He raised his head and said in a contemptuous tone: "I don't know. Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you."
The middle-aged prisoner of war's words completely angered the officer. He put his pistol to the other's forehead and pulled the trigger suddenly. But the gun didn't go off. He was stunned for a moment, and then he pulled the trigger again and again, but it still didn't go off. It turned out that the gun had jammed.
Just when the officer was about to change his gun, there was suddenly a roar of a car motor. He turned around and saw that it was a convoy of twenty covered trucks, slowly following behind a barrel truck. Slowly drove into the camp area.
When the officer saw this, he thought it was a force coming to change defenses, so he temporarily gave up his plan to shoot the middle-aged prisoner of war. He turned the handle of his gun upside down and hit the prisoner twice on the forehead. Then he put away the pistol and walked towards the convoy. .
The middle-aged prisoner of war, who had narrowly escaped death, stood still and allowed the blood from the wound to flow down his face. He stared at the officer's back with angry eyes, eager to rush over and kill him.
After the convoy stopped, the tarpaulin behind the truck was opened, and the soldiers who jumped out were greeted by the officers and lined up beside the truck. When the SS officer walked near the barrel truck, the rear door opened and a Wehrmacht major walked out.
The SS officer was only the leader of the first-class commando squadron, which was equivalent to the rank of captain. Although the person coming was the Wehrmacht, which he had never looked down upon, the other party had a higher rank than himself, so he could only salute him first.
After the major waited for the SS officers to salute, he said slowly: "I am Major Dürer, Field Marshal Manstein's adjutant, and I have been ordered to take away all the Russian prisoners of war in the camp. This is the Marshal's order!" As he said, he read from the official document He took out a piece of paper from his bag and handed it to the SS officer.
"Don't dare." The SS officer was dominating the prisoner-of-war camp, but in Manstein's eyes, he was just an inconspicuous little captain. To deal with him, he didn't even have to take action personally. As long as this intention is revealed, other officers will naturally deal with this SS officer. Therefore, he behaved extremely respectfully in front of Major Dürer: "Mr. Major, I just want to ask if my subordinates and I need any help?"
Dürer only brought more than 300 people with him this time. It was indeed a bit difficult to escort more than 3,000 prisoners of war to walk several kilometers to the exchange location. Since the SS officers offered to help, such free labor was naturally It's no use. He nodded and said: "We are going to escort these Russian prisoners of war to the Russian defense line. In order to ensure that they arrive at the designated place one by one, you will remove half of the guards from the guards to help us complete this escort." "
