Burning Moscow

As soon as we were halfway, we were stopped by a group of beggars. This group of beggars are almost all scrawny women. Their clothes are old and torn, and some even wear vertical striped prison uniforms. There is a huge yellow six-pointed star on their chest, which means that they are Jewish.

Nina and the others obviously knew these people. After chatting with one of the women wearing a black turban, they took a few bags of flour and barley from the car and gave them to them, and even gave them a sack of apples.

When we were back on the road, I curiously asked Nina: "Where did these people come from? I think you know them?"

"The survivors of the Majdanek concentration camp are all Jews" Nina said with a sad expression: "Since there is no food, they often come to the city to beg."

"Survivors of the concentration camp?" After hearing the name of the concentration camp by Nina, I frowned and thought for a moment, but there was no impression at all. All I remember was the Auschwitz concentration camp. I shook my head, and then asked: "Since they have been rescued by our army, why don't they go to their hometown?"

“There are not only Polish Jews in the concentration camps, but also Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Holland, France, Hungary, Belgium, and Greece.” Ulanova on the side continued: “These places are still occupied by Germans. Even if they go back, they can't escape the fate of being sent to death camps again."

When I heard Ulanova had arrived at the death camp, I couldn't help but glance at her in surprise. How could she know this method in my heart? Nina saw my expression in her eyes, and she hurriedly said to me: "Lida, you may not know that there are seven gas chambers in this concentration camp. Every time the Jews sent to get off the train, they will A camp official announced to the newcomers that they had arrived at a transit camp, where they would shower and disinfect their clothes, and then set off for a different labor camp.

After the announcement, the Jews were taken to the square near the train station. German guards separated the men and women, the men walked to one side, and the children walked to the other side with the mother. Women and children took off their clothes in a wooden room, and women’s hair was cut off. Then they were forced to leave the wooden house naked and walked into the narrow, fenced passage, which was the disguised road leading to the gas chamber.

After the victims were in the gas chamber, the German guards would close the door, and then the machine would start to run and the poison gas poured in. In less than half an hour, all the people in the room died, and the next group of victims was ready to enter. At the same time, the corpse was transported from another exit by a group of Jewish prisoners called the task force and pushed directly into the crematorium. "When Nina told me about this, she didn't know if it was because of excitement or fear, and her whole body was trembling slightly.

After I waited for Nina to finish, I stopped. Seeing that I was no longer going forward, Nina also stopped and asked curiously: "Lida, why are you late? It's still far from where we live."

"Nina," I said to her decisively after thinking for a moment: "I have another business today, so I won't be with you for the time being. I will go somewhere else recently, if I need your help for anything. , I will go to you." After that, I extended my hand to her, friendly, "Let’s leave it alone, my good friend!"

After I separated from Nina and the others, I didn't even change my clothes, and walked straight to the location of the front army headquarters. At the door, the soldier on guard did not immediately recognize me in civilian clothes. The officer on duty blocked my way and asked politely: "This girl, may I ask if you have anything to do with you here?"

"I am Oshanina," I immediately identified myself, and took out my ID and shook it towards the other party: "I have an urgent matter to see Comrade Commander."

The officer rushed to the side and gave me the passage. When I walked past him quickly, I heard him remind me from behind: "Comrade deputy commander, commander and chief of staff are all in the headquarters."

I walked into the headquarters and saw Rokosovsky and Malinin, as well as several combat staff officers, discussing something around the map. Hearing my hurried footsteps, Rokosovsky turned his head and looked over. After seeing that it was me, he couldn't help but curiously asked: "Lida, why are you wearing casual clothes? Did you just come back from where you walked?"

After finishing this sentence, he didn't wait for me, and turned to the staff who had stood upright at the table and said: "Okay, the matter is settled, you immediately go back and execute it!"

The staff members agreed, and collectively turned and left. Rokosovsky raised his hand to the vacant place next to him, motioned me to sit down, and then asked, "Lida, you are in such a hurry to come over, is there anything important?"

"Comrade Marshal," I hung my bag on the back of the chair, and immediately asked impatiently: "I want to ask what happened to the Majdanek concentration camp?"

"Majdanek concentration camp?" After Rokosovsky repeated the ground, the expression on his face became serious: "Our army liberated this concentration camp in late July. What witnesses told me I will never forget the situation. Fascist bandits killed about 1.5 million people in this concentration camp, including a large number of old people, women and children. The fascist brutality they carried out in the camp is the most serious crime against mankind."

Hearing that almost 1.5 million people were killed in the Majdanek concentration camp, I couldn't help being stunned by this astonishing number. Just when I was speechless and speechless, Malinen came over and asked me curiously: "Lida, do you want to know about the situation in this concentration camp?"

After seeing me nodding in affirmation, Malinen began to introduce to me the situation of this concentration camp: "Idanek concentration camp, located four kilometers southeast of Lublin. The purpose of establishing this concentration camp is to destroy the enemies of the Third Reich and assist Extermination of Jews, participation in the deportation and'relocation' of Poles living in the Zamosc region of the ordinary government.

Majdanek concentration camp covers an area of ​​667 acres and is located on the road connecting Lublin, Zamosc and Chelm. Surrounded by high-voltage double-layer barbed wire and 19 watchtowers, there are soldiers standing guard in the towers to prevent people from escaping. The camp is composed of five parts: 22 cells, 7 gas chambers, 2 wooden gallows, a small crematorium, and other indispensable buildings: such as storage rooms, workshops, laundry rooms, and coal storage rooms Wait.

This concentration camp was established in September 1941, and the first prisoners arrived in Majdanek in October. In the next two and a half years, groups of prisoners arrived one after another, including those from Soviet prisoner-of-war camps and others from other concentration camps, such as Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Auschwitz. , Neuingamar and Frosenbeagle.

Other prisoners in the camp include: Polish civilians who were hunted by the Germans or previously imprisoned elsewhere; Jews from Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, France, Hungary, Belgium, and Greece; non-Jews from Belarus and Ukraine; Zamosc Polish farmers who were driven out of their homes in the area. After the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, tens of thousands of Jews were deported from Warsaw to Majdanek. After the ghetto of Bialystok was cleared in August 1943, thousands of Jews there were also sent here. …"

Rokosovsky patiently waited for Malinin to finish the somewhat boring data, and asked me curiously: "Lida, why did you suddenly remember to ask about this concentration camp?"

"Comrade Marshal, this is the situation." I quickly reported to Rokosovsky about a group of beggars on the road today, and finally said: "I just ask, since we have removed them from Germany The clutches of the people have been rescued. Why don't you arrange them properly and provide them with the necessary food and water? Can't let the survivors of these death camps starve to death, right?"

"Lida, you don't know something, we also have our own difficulties." Rokosovsky sighed: "After careful screening, we found that most people’s hometowns are currently in an enemy-occupied area. If they were sent back rashly, it would be equivalent to asking them to die.

We detained them in the concentration camp, leaving a small number of troops to guard them, but they did not restrict their freedom. They can freely enter and exit the concentration camp, otherwise you will not see them on the streets of Lublin. "

In Rokosovsky’s remarks, every mention of why no food and water were provided to the survivors of the concentration camps, I can only mention this one more time: "If they have enough food and water, then Will not come to Lublin to beg."

"Lida, you missed Comrade Marshal in this matter." Malinen heard the dissatisfaction from my words and quickly explained to me: "The task of relieving these Jews has always been the responsibility of the new Polish government. We do it every day. Provide them with a large amount of food. As for why these things have not fallen into the hands of the Jews, this is not easy to guess."

When I figured out that the survivors from the Majdanek concentration camp were begging on the streets of Lublin, it was not the cause of Rokosovsky. I realized that I had missed the other party and quickly blushed to Roko. Sofsky: "I'm sorry, Comrade Marshal, I blamed you!"

Rokosovsky waved his hand and said graciously: "Lida, it's okay. You haven't figured out the specific situation. Misunderstandings are inevitable." He paused for a moment, then continued, "When I When the army approached the Majdanek concentration camp in July. The Germans burned down the large crematorium and other buildings in order to cover up their crimes. However, they eagerly left the camp and forgot to destroy most of the cells and gas chambers.

Our army liberated the Majdanek Concentration Camp on July 24, and unexpectedly discovered that there were 700 or 800 surviving prisoners inside. In addition to the majority of Jews, there are about fifty people captured in our army. "

Hearing that dozens of captured commanders and fighters of our army were left in the concentration camp, I couldn't help but shine, "Comrade Marshal, where are these captured commanders and fighters?"

"Where else can it be, of course in the Majdanek concentration camp." Rokosovsky regretted: "I went to meet these people, all of them are skinny like skeletons, as if the wind blows. They will fall. Seeing them like this, I dispelled my plan to replenish them into the army."

To find out how these captured fighters survived, I continued to ask Rokosovsky: "Comrade Marshal, do you know how they survived?"

"These people are all selected by the Nazis, and they are the task force responsible for pulling the corpses in the gas chambers to the crematorium." Malinen's face was frosty: "The Germans, in order to prevent the leakage of secrets, every other period. Time will replace a group of contingents, and those who are replaced will be sent directly into the gas chamber. Their luck was good. The Germans were too panic when they fled, so they were forgotten."

After I waited for Ma Lining to finish, I asked carefully: "I want to ask the concentration camp guards who were caught by us, how did they deal with it?"

Malining said in an official tone: "If we change from the past, these captured guards will be shot directly. But because there are a large number of allied reporters in the concentration camps to interview, we can only lock these prisoners of war first and wait for the end of the war. Later, they will continue to be tried and sentenced based on their crimes."

Hearing what Malinen said, I knew in my heart that most of the guards in the Majdanek concentration camp could escape one death, and at most they would be sentenced to one life imprisonment. Only a few unlucky individuals will be sentenced to shooting or hanging on the gallows in the end.

"Lida, in a few days, you will command the troops to attack the China Sofa. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com I suggest you go and see the surviving prisoners of war," Rokosovsky suggested to me on his own initiative: " Maybe these can be used for many purposes in the next battle."

Regarding Rokosovsky’s suggestion, I replied hesitantly: "Comrade Marshal, you are not as skinny as they can be blown down by a gust of wind? How can such a person go to war?"

"You can put them into the army first, and after their bodies return to the ideal state, you can let them participate in the battle." Rokosovsky emphasized: "These people have been tortured in the fascist concentration camps, so they Prepare to go to any dangerous place, wherever they can avenge their hateful enemies, they are willing to go."

I very much agree with Rokosowski’s law. As our army advances to Berlin, more and more concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps will be liberated by us. If we don’t release tens of thousands of prisoners of war. It would be too violent to be incorporated into the army. Therefore I decisively: "Comrade Marshal, please arrange for me. I want to go to Majdanek concentration camp immediately and talk to these surviving soldiers."

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