Excerpt from the report of I. V. Stalin at the solemn meeting of the Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies with party and public organizations of Moscow on November 6, 1941.
...No matter how crows don't dress up in peacock feathers, they won't stop being crows. "It is necessary by any means," says Hitler, "to ensure that the world is conquered by the Germans. If we want to create our great German empire, we must first of all oust and exterminate the Slavic peoples - Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Belarusians. There's no reason not to." "Man," says Hitler, "is sinful from birth, he can only be controlled by force. Any methods are permissible in handling it. When politics demands it, one must lie, betray and even kill." "Kill," says Goering, "everyone who is against us, kill, kill, you are not responsible for this, but I am, so kill!" "I liberate man," says Hitler, "from the degrading chimera called conscience. Conscience, like education, cripples a person. I have the advantage that I am not held back by any considerations of a theoretical or moral order." In one of the orders of the German command dated September 25 to the 489 infantry regiment, taken from a murdered German non-commissioned officer, it says: "I order to open fire on every Russian as soon as he appears at a distance of 600 meters. The Russian must know that he has a determined enemy against him, from whom he cannot expect any leniency." In one of the appeals of the German command to the soldiers found at the murdered Lieutenant Gustav Ziegel, a native of Frankfurt am Main, it says: "You have no heart and nerves, they are not needed in the war. Destroy pity and compassion in yourself - kill every Russian, Soviet, do not stop if you are facing an old man or a woman, a girl or a boy - kill, this will save you from death, ensure the future of your family and become famous forever."
I'm sorry about that. I Attributed to Hitler the words spoken by Goering. A very principled substitution, however, he also said enough.
If words are not enough, I cite a link to the official orders of the Wehrmacht General Staff on the same topic, recognized by the Nuremberg Tribunal as criminal.
Приказ «О применении военной подсудности в районе Барбаросса» — Википедия
How could they anticipate "Nazi concentration camps" back then? Russian soldiers had been happy being captured by german troops because of the fair treatment and food they got. They also got rid of their own political officers shooting them in the back this way.
Here, again, I apologize, there was a machine translation error. Instead of the word anticipate in the sense of prediction, it is necessary to use the word forestal in the sense of do earlier. We must pay tribute to Pilsudski, although he was ahead of the fascists in organizing concentration camp, he was still not the inventor of such forms. Here the primacy belongs, as I see it, to the British during the Anglo-Boer War.
As for the soldiers of the Red Army who happily surrender to the Fascist captivity, you are right here - there were such and there were many of them. The Germans formed a whole army of them. The Russian Liberation Army it was called. We called them Vlasovtsy by the name of the commander, by the way, a former lieutenant general of the Red Army. This name, Vlasovtsy, has become a household name and a synonym for traitors to the motherland, along with Bandera, whose heirs are now, at the moment, resisting the forces of the DPR, LPR and the Russian army in Ukraine.
One of the first horrors during WW2 had been the
Katyn massacre in 1940. Citation: "It was a series of
mass executions of nearly 22,000
Polish military officers and
intelligentsia. It was initiated in NKVD chief
Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to
Joseph Stalin to execute all captive members of the Polish
officer corps, which was approved by the
Soviet Politburo led by Stalin."
This massacre is typical for WW2 as it had been executed by "the russians" and later had been discovered by german troops AND documented by the international red cross in 1941. Even it had been documented as russian warcrime by the international red cross in 1941 it had been counted as a german warcrime after the war with "the russians" wanting to use it during the Nuernberg "Trials". Which the US prevented from happening. It had been in east german history books as a german war crime until 1989. This makes it exemplary for the history of WW2 and of war crimes during and after WW2.
Here again there is a misunderstanding. Speaking about the myth, I did not mean the absence of this event as a fact. I do not dispute with the fast as such, the Prosecutor General's Office has recognized it in our country. However, I realized that you didn't read the article. It notes a certain number of inconsistencies, which makes it possible to doubt the thoroughness of documenting the facts.
I don't understand your statement about typicality. Are you really full of fairy tales about bloodthirsty Russians who devoured all the children alive and fucked all living things on the territory of unhappy Europe? If that's the case, then you and I have nothing to talk about at all.
Do i need to cite from "Ilya Ehrenburgs" "Kill" again? A text which had been dropped by airplanes over russian troops entering germany and called for killing ALL germans, not "only" soldiers and raping all woman?! This is the incident in military history i know where a goverment urges his troops to rape and kill civilians!
Here, in my opinion, there is a whole series of substitutions.
Firstly, I do not know what text you are familiar with, the text that is published here does not say a single word about what you are talking about. Below I will translate for you the full text of the article, known to us, and you will show me with your finger in which place it says about ALL Germans, not "only" soldiers and raping all woman as you say.
Secondly, Ehrenburg's article was published in the newspaper in the summer of 1942, when it was still 1.5-2 years before the Soviet troops entered Germany and before reaching the borders of the USSR.
And thirdly, an article in a newspaper authored by a film director can be considered a direct order of the government with a very big stretch. Even considering the fact that all newspapers at that time were under the control of the state
Kill !
Here are excerpts from three letters found on the murdered Germans:
Manager Reinhardt writes to Lieutenant Otto von Schirach:
"The French were taken from us to the factory. I chose six Russians from the Minsk district. They are much hardier than the French. Only one of them died, the rest continue to work in the field and on the farm. Their maintenance costs nothing and we should not suffer from the fact that these animals, whose children may be killing our soldiers, eat German bread. Yesterday I subjected two Russian beasts to light execution, who secretly devoured skimmed milk intended for pig queens..."
Matthias Zillich writes to his brother Corporal Heinrich Zichlich: "There is a camp for Russians in Leiden, you can see them there. They are not afraid of weapons, but we talk to them with a good whip..."
Someone Otto Essman writes to Lieutenant Helmut Weigand: "We have Russian prisoners here. These types devour earthworms on the airfield site, they rush at the garbage bucket. I saw them eating weeds. And to think that these are people..."
Slaveholders, they want to turn our people into slaves. They take the Russians to their place, mock them, drive them to insanity with hunger, to the point that, dying, people eat grass and worms and a filthy German with a rotten cigar in his teeth philosophizes: "Are these people?.."
We know everything. We remember everything. We realized that the Germans are not people. From now on, the word "German" is the most terrible curse for us. From now on, the word "German" discharges the gun. Let's not talk. Let's not be indignant. We will kill. If you haven't killed at least one German in a day, your day is gone. If you think that your neighbor will kill a German for you, you didn't understand the threat. If you don't kill the German, the German will kill you. He will take yours and torment she in his accursed Germany. If you can't kill a German with a bullet, kill a German with a bayonet. If there is a lull in your area, if you are waiting for a fight, kill the German before the fight. If you leave a German to live, a German will hang a Russian man and disgrace a Russian woman. If you killed one German, kill another - there is nothing more fun for us than German corpses. Don't count the days. Don't count the miles. Count one thing- the Germans you killed. Kill the German!- the old mother asks for it. Kill the German!- this is the child begging you. Kill the German!- this is the native land screaming. Don't miss. Don't miss it. Kill !
Ilya Ehrenburg
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