Awards for all who fought for the Germans
"... The Germans sent two machine gunners to take positions behind our backs, and at a considerable distance from each other ... I grinned sadly, remembering propaganda stories about the Soviet commissars holding the fighters at gunpoint"
- the memoirs of the officer of the Italian expeditionary corps Eugenio Corti, who fought on the Eastern Front
“Relations with Germans are bad”, “Germans treat us with contempt,” “they call offensive nicknames”, “mock”.
- from the letters of Italian, Hungarian and Romanian soldiers of the Second World War.
Soviet soldiers view the remaining unarmed "Iron Crosses" on the threshold of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, spring 1945.
Where the gentle sun and the warm Mediterranean Sea merge into a picture of serene everyday life, the crash of German machine guns suddenly resounded. These are the soldiers of the Edelweiss division of the mountain rifle division shooting their former allies on the island of Kefalonia. They punctuate the Italians in a row for 8 people - and kill them at close range.
The “Massacre of the Acqui Division” became one of the largest mass shootings in stories - In just one week in September 1943, 5000 prisoners of Italian soldiers and officers were shot on the island.
“The Germans went around us, offering medical assistance to the wounded. When about 20 people crawled forward, a machine-gun volley killed them "
- from the memoirs of chaplain Romualdo Formato, one of the few who survived the massacre on the island of Kefalonia
The first to be shot was the commander of the Aqui division, a convinced fascist, General Antonio Gandin, who was awarded the Iron Cross for his exploits on the Eastern Front. Before his death, he threw a German award into the dirt in the hearts ...
No honors were given to the former allies - first they were fired from machine guns at them, then it became a pity for the calculating Germans to waste cartridges, and knives were used. The bodies of the killed officers were piled on rafts, taken into the sea and exploded along with the live Italian soldiers that were on them.
Memorial to the murdered Italians on the Greek island of Kefalonia.
Such fierce hatred towards their yesterday’s allies is simply explained: in September, 1943, Mussolini’s regime fell in Italy under the attacks of the Anglo-American forces, the Germans immediately occupied part of the country and disarmed the Italian army.
Alas, the former allies and loyal vassals of the Third Reich did not receive any gratitude or even a fraction of respect - mass executions of captured Italian soldiers occur everywhere: on the Greek islands of Kefalonia, Kos, in the Balkans, in Albania ... The entire Italian garrison of the city of Lviv was shot. On the territory of Poland, the Germans destroyed more than 20000 Italian soldiers.
Moor did his job. Moor can leave.
“In the morning the cars arrived and stopped along the camp road. Italians were hit with cars. They were ordered to fold weapon goats and step aside. Then they were driven by the back of the gorge of death and shot. There were officers among the soldiers. ”
- from the memories of prisoners of the Yanovsky concentration camp, which was near Lviv
Part two. Romanians.
The war in the view of these jackals looked like a robbery of the population in the occupied territories. The Romanian army turned out to be completely inefficient - they came only to plunder what was not burned or was not captured by the Germans, and at the same time to resolve their territorial issues at the expense of part of the land of Ukraine.
Not surprisingly, when the German army was firmly bogged down near Moscow, Japan declared war on Britain and the United States, and Great Britain, at the insistence of the USSR, declared war on Romania, Hungary and Finland, the dictator's nerves did not survive (still, came under the guise of plunder, but under such a "batch"), and he made a statement, poorly understandable from the point of view of logic:
“I am an ally of the Reich in the war against Russia. I am neutral in the conflict between Great Britain and Germany. I am on the side of the Americans against Japan. ”
- Ion Antonescu, December 7 1941 of the year
The Germans themselves also did not create illusions about the seriousness and fighting qualities of their "allies" and treated the Romanian soldiers as cattle: they never trusted them important sections of the front, put up "detachments" behind their backs, and in case of misfortune - Romanians ruthlessly started consumption.
Romanian and German officers at the crossing of the river. Rod, 1941 year
Romanian prisoners are a bit shocked by the conditions of the Eastern Front
“The Germans betrayed us. They took power over the Romanian troops and dispose of us as they wish. In the event of trouble, the Germans force the Romanians to substitute their heads for Russian bullets, and they flee. At first we retreated with the Germans. When the Russians overtook our columns, Part of the Romanian officers and soldiers tried to get into the trucks, but the Germans opened machine-gun fire. The Germans managed to leave by car, but we met many of them every day at the POW assembly point. ”
- from the revelations of the commanders of the 2 and 3 companies of the 12 battalion of the 3 Romanian mountain rifle division of the captains Lazorescu and Georgiou taken prisoner in Crimea in 1944
The third story. Ukrainian nationalists
“We have always cooperated with the Germans, we want to cooperate with the Germans, we still cooperate with the Germans, we will cooperate with you, and only in cooperation with Germany ...”
What does this nonsense mean? The head of the "declension of verbs" in a non-Russian textbook on the Russian language?
No, this is not a textbook, but the most terrible historical document - an explanatory note to the German authorities from the Ukrainian nationalist Yaroslav Stetsko, who proclaimed 30 on June 1941, in Lviv, was the formation of the Ukrainian Patriarchate Stepan Bandera. From now on, the Ukrainian Power along with Great Germany will begin to establish a new world order everywhere!
I consider Moscow to be the main enemy of Ukraine. I consider it expedient to transfer the German methods of extermination of the Jews to Ukraine (and further on with Stetsko’s own hand: excluding their assimilation). What a nice man!
Full of dog loyalty, loyalty and adherence to the ideas of fascism, the letter should have touched the stone hearts of the Teutonic knights. Stetsko and Bandera received the princely title and "label for reign"?
Here to both of them! (The characteristic gesture of three fingers).
The “Ukrainian Power” existed for exactly six days - as long as the Germans were concerned with more important issues. 9 July Stetsko arrested the Gestapo (Bandera was arrested a week earlier). Soon both clowns were in Sachsenhausen.
A memorial plaque in honor of the 50 anniversary of the proclamation of the Ukrainian State on the central square of Lviv, opened on June 30 of the year 1991
What did the fascists angered by their loyal supporters - the chairman of the government of the Ukrainian State, Yaroslav Stetsko, and the "leader of the Ukrainian people" Stepan Bandera? Why did the Germans so rapidly “bake” both of them to a concentration camp, refusing the seemingly advantageous offer of cooperation?
The answer is simple: the Germans were not going to cooperate with the Untermensch. From the "subhumans" was required only one thing - submission. Any kind of freethinking and attempts to realize oneself by an independent force were mercilessly crushed by a German boot.
Meister Brückner turned his head to Reiband and said in disgust in German:
- Tell him that, according to the powers of the Fuhrer, I appoint him as a burgomaster.
Then, Majster Brückner, without looking, groped the printed narrow bar of chocolate on the table, without looking, broke off several fused squares from it and silently stretched Statsenko.
“This is not a man, but an ideal,” Statsenko later told his wife.
- Tell him that, according to the powers of the Fuhrer, I appoint him as a burgomaster.
Then, Majster Brückner, without looking, groped the printed narrow bar of chocolate on the table, without looking, broke off several fused squares from it and silently stretched Statsenko.
“This is not a man, but an ideal,” Statsenko later told his wife.
- “Young Guard”, A. Fadeev
"Auxiliary nations" should know their place. A lot of idiots were fascinated by the prospect of “driving German cars and drinking Bavarian beer”. The only thing that the collaborators and traitors were wrong about was that the future German paradise was not meant for them. When the war ends, the "auxiliary nations" will be exterminated and destroyed just as it should have been with the opponents of Germany.
It is not clear what the supporters of this point of view are hoping for. If the “liberators” had broken through the front and occupied the Caucasus, they would have installed such a “Der Ordnung” in the mountains that General Yermolov himself would turn over in his grave.
Despite all the puppy loyalty of collaborators and their atrocities towards their compatriots (Katyn), the divisions recruited from the “racially inferior” never were placed on a par with the German units: they were forbidden to wear a double digger in the right buttonhole. There are statistics in many sources that more than half of the SS divisions consisted of soldiers of non-Aryan origin (Albanians, Belgians, French, Serbs, Balts, Ukrainians, Russian traitors, Cossacks and former White Guards). But this statement is not true. In contrast to the true Aryan SS divisions (for example, the famous SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf" - "Dead Head"), elite divisions formed from other nations had the designation "der SS" - "subhuman" in the service of the SS (for example , French 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS “Charlemagne” (französische Nr. 1).
- How did you, scoundrels, dare to wear a German uniform? - General Leclerc was brave before the soldiers of the SS SS Charlemagne taken prisoner.
“Just as you, the general, dared to wear an American,” was the laconic answer.
“Just as you, the general, dared to wear an American,” was the laconic answer.
The prisoners were immediately shot by the order of an angry general.
In general, the French are at war unimportantly, but they are able to formulate their thoughts in a brilliant way. Not so long ago, at a reception in the French embassy, the diplomat was asked a question: why are people in France so negatively towards “Vichists”? (The puppet French state that existed during the 1940-45 period). After all, formally supporters of Marshal Petain stopped the bloodshed and allowed to save the country from total looting and destruction: as a result of the Second World War, France got off with minimal losses.
The Frenchman flared up and said hurtly: "They destroyed the spirit of the nation."
If the Germans had won, we would all ride Mercedes. Here on these "Mercedes"
German troops were soiled in blood and smeared all their accomplices and allies with mud. The hour of reckoning came soon - the Germans independently sent many of their “loyal friends” to the scrap. Someone was shot, having fallen into the hands of his, now former, compatriots. Someone fell in battle, as the Estonian commando group "Erna", driven into the swamps and destroyed by the special forces of the NKVD.
The Cossacks from the Cossack Mill and the 15 Cossack Cavalry Corps who fought on the side of Nazi Germany won a special award. Understanding that the war was lost to smithereens, and their overlords in the form of the German swastika are now lying prone in the ruins of Berlin, the cunning Cossacks developed a rescue plan to escape retaliation into the British occupation zone in East Tyrol in order to “honorable” surrender to the British.
2 May 1945, the Cossacks began to cross the Alps, and by May 10 safely (except for the skirmishes with the Italian partisans) arrived in the vicinity of the town of Lienz. 18 May British units descended into the valley. The Cossacks surrendered all their weapons and were distributed to several POW camps in the vicinity of Lienz.
But it turned out that the Anglo-Saxons have their own specific ideas about honor and dignity. Nobody was going to hide obvious traitors.
On the morning of May 1, 1945, when the Cossacks gathered to build, the British suddenly appeared. The soldiers began to seize unarmed people and drive them into the lodged trucks. Those who tried to resist were shot on the spot. The rest were taken away in an unknown direction.
A few hours later, a mourning procession of trucks with traitors crossed the checkpoint at the border of the Soviet occupation zone.
The trial of the Cossack generals of the Wehrmacht took place in the walls of the Lefortovo prison behind closed doors from 15 to 16 in January of 1947. 16 January in 15: 15 judges retired for sentencing. In 19: 39 the verdict was announced:
“The Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court sentenced the generals Krasnov PN, Krasnov S.N., Shkuro SG, von Pannevitsa G. to the death penalty for leading the armed struggle against the Soviet Union through the groups they formed.”
On 20: 45 of the same day, the sentence was carried out.
According to the book "Opponents of Russia in the wars of the XX century (Evolution of the" image of the enemy "in the minds of the army and society)," the author E.S. Sinyavskaya.
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