Chapter 21 The Puppet Army
In early autumn, the Ukrainian Plain was originally a scene of fruitful harvests. The war storm turned it into scorched earth again. After the Allied forces occupied it and the Soviet counterattack, many towns that had just begun to be rebuilt after the war were once again reduced to rubble piles, and big cities like Kiev were not spared.
As the economic concentration area and heavy industrial production area of Ukraine, although there is no fierce ground combat here, the powerful Allied strategic bomber troops easily place it into the combat range. Hundreds of heavy bombers bomb the urban area and surrounding facilities at night at a frequency of once every half a month. The development of radio navigation technology has made the conventional disguise and guided measures rarely effective. The rain-like high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs have made the urban area beyond recognition. A large number of residents flee their homes, and the people who stayed are in panic. Even so, in order to inspire the army, the army is in panic.
In order to prove the steadfastness of dominance, Ukrainian government agencies were still stationed in Kiev, and the permanent command and logistics departments of the Soviet Ukrainian Front were also placed here. To fight against the large-scale bombing of the Allied forces, it is also a military and political standpoint. The Soviet air defense forces were determined to defend the city and drive away Western invaders, which required a large amount of manpower and equipment investment, and to establish a complete and solid air defense system. When the local Ukrainian residents were sweating profusely in this cool autumn weather, a "reinforcement" that most of them unexpectedly appeared.
"Look, German guy!"
When the sharp-eyed uncle on the road recognized the identity of the marching army, his tone seemed to return to 194. The Ukrainians were not loyal to the Soviet regime. From the Soviet Union to the Soviet Union, Ukraine's greatest role in the eyes of those in power was to provide food. Political needs also limited the harsh amount of surrenders during the disaster period, and famine occurred again and again on this rich land. Since they were hostile to the power in Moscow and the servants who served them, the Ukrainians not only did not have strong hostility towards the arrival of the German army, but they even had hope, but this hope quickly turned into disappointment and even despair.
"Hey, the Germans are really Germans. They came from the north!" The women subconsciously pushed to the hillside on the roadside, and some simply hid in the bushes. However, when they realized that this long marching team did not take a step forward, the soldiers in the team looked easy-going and without any hostility, they couldn't help but look at the handsome young men. However, the lessons left by the war on both sides were too profound. Ukrainian residents would never dare to show enthusiasm and friendship. The German soldiers in the team were afraid of the Soviets because of their career in prison camps. With Soviet officers and soldiers paying attention along the way, they had to suppress their instincts and march silently, and even the military songs that used to relieve fatigue could not be sang together.
"Do you want to send these German men back to Germany?" Someone curiously asked the Soviet cavalry on the hillside that the German officers and soldiers on the road were quite uniform, but this group was carrying bags without any weapons. This scene was indeed reminiscent of the team escorting prisoners of war.
"Uncle, they are our comrades now, to help us fight against American and British imperialism!" The cavalry replied in a low voice, as if it would embarrass him by saying this loudly.
A fu girl covered her mouth and asked, "Aren't German fascism more terrifying than American and British imperialism?"
"The German fascism has perished!" replied the cavalry, "These are all transformed German soldiers who were deceived by Hitler and his gangster Gu Huoyou before entering the war. When the devil died, they all saw the situation clearly!"
Some of the Ukrainians around them were suddenly enlightened, while others were still sleepy and worried about the scene in front of them, but they didn't say much or couldn't say much.
In the four days apart, 12 infantry regiments composed of German prisoners of war who were released arrived at the place where they won the greatest annihilation victory in history five years ago, but this time they came no longer to conquer cities, but to participate in the construction of the city defense system. According to the training regulations of the German army, every qualified army soldier should have the common sense of building combat fortifications. This is not only to command shovels to dig trenches to build turrets, but to maximize the use of terrain to resist the enemy's attack. The strategic situation in the middle and late stages of World War II made veterans or new soldiers dig fortifications day after day, and their technical level was first-class. The Soviet army was just the opposite of this. They advocated attacks like the French before 195 years ago. Since 1943, this kind of xing has gained full space for development. Generals and officers are like this, and ordinary soldiers are also unable to escape the world. So near Kiev, the Soviet Union
Military officers and soldiers and Ukrainian workers recruited from the local area came to visit the responsible areas of these German officers and soldiers. The air defense positions designed and built according to the German thinking are both beautiful and coherent like works of art. Anti-aircraft gun positions with different functions form dense honeycombs. A large number of air raids and air raid shelters not only provide people with shelter, but also store a large amount of combat materials and even some split military equipment. In this way, even when the Allied forces were intensively bombed, the local area could maintain a minimum military production. This was the helpless move of the Germans to survive the last three years of World War II, and it also achieved a new military knowledge. Now, the power of the Allied Strategic Air Force has also made the Soviets taste the power, and the hard polar bears have to "drill into the hole and live" like the Germans.
In addition to Kiev, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is also an important strategic support point for the Soviet army. After seven German infantry regiments arrived here, they did the same physical work. Their serious and efficient work allowed more than 10,000 Soviet officers and soldiers and reserve personnel to get rid of the repeated mechanical fortifications and build concentrated combat preparations. When the food supply is sufficient, these Germans who suffered a lot in Siberia seemed modest and optimistic. They did not make any unreasonable demands. They did not care about their salary or vacations. They could not communicate with their families. They even took the initiative to help the Soviet personnel learn to use German air defense guns, and even used equipment components seized by the Soviet army in Germany to assemble several German-made mines to target their performance. The senior Soviet leaders decided to draw German personnel with air defense combat experience from these infantry regiments to form a batch of anti-aircraft artillery companies, which were divided into 88 mm caliber and
The heavy anti-aircraft gun company that uses artillery, light anti-aircraft gun company that uses 37mm guns and 20mm machine guns, and radio companies that use radar and communication equipment. In addition, six infantry regiments equipped with conventional guns and guns have also carried out training in the area of Yekaterin Arbor. The training content is mainly ideological and political teaching, and the officers at all levels of these infantry regiments have been "criticized and verified", that is, each officer must be proved by at least two colleagues during the war. The accusations of others must be consistent with personal confessions. Those who may have extremely hated the Soviet Union or have participated in the battle with major casualties in the Soviet army will be transferred to engineering troops or even repatriated to prisoners of war camps because they cannot pass the verification. This training method can be said to be original to the Soviet army. Due to the complex procedures and long time, these infantry regiments have to wait for a while to be put into the battlefield.
The Allied forces released and used the overall idea of German prisoners of war on their own was no different from that of the Soviets, but the consistent differences in their thinking and styles made them take completely different approaches to the German combatants. The Allied forces not only organized the released prisoners of war into battalion-level troops, but also directly distributed firearms and equipment to many troops. These infantry battalions, anti-tank battalions and engineer battalions were dispatched by the troops of the United States, Britain, France, and Bo as the first commander, and the highest-level German officers in the army served as deputy positions, so many German generals and colonels appeared.
A wonderful sight to the Allied Major and Captain. After a brief training, many former Austrian German soldiers became the happiest group because they were able to return to Austria to garrison on site, build fortifications, and prepare for battle. They were allowed to communicate with their families and even meet with them. More than 40,000 German fighters were sent to the "East Prussian Corridor" connecting Central Europe and the three countries of Boluo. Allied commanders took them into the front line to replace the US and British troops there so that the physical and mentally exhausted soldiers could return to the rear to rest.
For the Austrians, the Allies formulated a very effective management system. Once someone escaped, not only would they be arrested and sent back to the prison camp to extend the custody period, but non-commissioned officers and soldiers who belong to the same combat squad will also lose their trust and return to the prison camp. The huge contrast between the front and back makes the Austrian soldiers obey the instructions of the Allied commanders. For the Germans, the Allies not only adopted the same control measures but also imposed strict logistics supply restrictions on them. Each battalion on the front line can only obtain supplies for the day, which means that if the German officers and soldiers who have left Germany hundreds of kilometers will escape if they want to escape.
Run, either surrender to the cruel enemy, the Soviets, or enter the bolan, which was bullied by Germany during World War II, or head north to Lithuania and south to Czechoslovakia, where the people also hated the former German occupiers. Therefore, these German officers and soldiers who rushed to fight were finally stationed honestly on the front line with a nervous attitude. Fortunately, the front line became calm at this time, no fierce battle broke out for several weeks. The strange comrades in the same trench gradually became familiar with each other and the generals and officers also used this rare time to improve their command structure...
Perhaps in order to fundamentally grasp the hearts of the German soldiers who serve for themselves, or perhaps out of the consideration of disintegrating the fighting will of German soldiers in the Soviet camp, the senior leaders of the allied countries used German prisoners of war to organize combat troops, and soon made another decision that surprised the whole world: to rebuild the German army!
During the Weimar Republic, there were many political parties in Germany. In the 1930 election, there were 0 parties with more than 10,000 votes. After the Hitler regime came to power, these parties were quickly weakened, disintegrated and disappeared. Germany has since entered a period of dictatorship that lasted for more than ten years. After the German government surrendered to the Allies in 1945, some political leaders who were expelled or moved overseas returned to Germany to rebuild or establish new parties, which may be more than a year from the end of World War II to the new round of war broke out in the Eastern and Western camps.
During time, the development of these parties was extremely slow. Until 1946, no party or party consortium had enough appeal to rebuild the German government. The Allies obviously lacked trust in any German party, so that Germany's idea of rebirth as a sovereign state was difficult to realize due to many objective obstructions. So when Western allies decided to use German military power to fight against the Soviet Union and its military partners on the same front, this historical strange phenomenon of first having an army and then a government was born.
Chapter completed!