War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 126 Camera with Gold Medal ([-]-in-[-] update)

In the ruins of the clinic covered in dust, all kinds of garbage were transported to the back by Wei Ran and others in a relay way, and the front bathroom gradually revealed its original outline.

Finally, when the bathtub full of clothes was completely dug out, both Dr. Lodge and the little nurse who had been wearing a mask all heaved a sigh of relief.

Bending down to lift up a door panel to block the view behind him, Father Hans looked at Dr. Lodge seriously, "Aren't you going to explain?"

Hearing this, Dr. Rocky wiped the dust on his white coat calmly, and said in a low voice, "It's just hiding a few friends."

"Jewish friends?" Father Hans asked with a frown.

Dr. Lodge glanced at Wei Ran, who was helping to cover the outside view with his body, nodded indistinctly, and then, together with the nurse, lifted the bathtub vigorously.

A faint light leaked from under the bathtub, Dr. Lodge knelt on the dirty floor, poked most of his head in and asked, "Is everyone okay?"

"It's okay, everyone is okay." A pleasant female voice came from inside, "What happened up there?"

"It's nothing, it's just that the clinic was hit by a shell." Dr. Lodge replied calmly, "Since there's nothing wrong, please keep quiet down here."

"Ok"

After hearing the reply inside, Dr. Rocky stepped back, lifted the bathtub, and kicked away the bricks that had just been stuffed into the gap with his feet.As the bathtub was refitted to the dirty floor, the faint light was completely covered up.

"Okay, let's find some food and supplies and go out."

Father Hans reminded, "If you're empty-handed, even an idiot will know there's something wrong with it, especially since there are so many young people lying out there whose brains are full of shit."

"Let's see if there are any surviving wounded."

After Dr. Rocky finished speaking, he signaled everyone to take a few steps back. After Hans' father half-covered the door of the bathroom with the door in his hand, he climbed out of the ruins with difficulty, walked around to the other side of the clinic, and searched for as much as possible. with survivors.

With the efforts of the four people, an injured old man was dug out from the collapsed ruins and sent to the open space outside the ruins with difficulty.

After roughly checking the old man's physical condition and making sure that he was fine, Doctor Lodge went to the boxes stacked against the wall outside, and found three metal boxes painted with gray paint and red crosses inside. And distribute two of them to Wei Ran and Papa Hans.

"This seems to be a medical first aid kit only used in field hospitals?"

Father Hans opened the box in surprise, "Marco's aunt is really generous. When I was in the Youth League, I just gave him a medical backpack."

Hearing this, Wei Ran also curiously opened the metal box in his hand. The iron box was full of stuff, in addition to various medical equipment, there were also various medicines such as tetanus, penicillin, antibiotics, sulfa packs, and even Ma Fei. There are many kinds of medicines.

"Mario, come here, I'll sew your butt up for you!" Wei Ran said to the little guy who was still crying in Marco's arms.

It’s okay if he didn’t say that, and when he opened his mouth, Mario was so frightened that he didn’t even dare to cry, and his dirty little face shook wildly from side to side to express his resistance.

"Let me do it." Dr. Rocky said helplessly, "Victor, you sew too much. Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it."

"Use it or not"

Wei Ran buckled the metal box angrily, and took advantage of Dr. Rocky's time to sew Mario's buttocks and said, "The clinic is gone, we may have to change the place."

"can't change"

This time it was Father Hans who refused, "The supplies sent by Marco's aunt are too precious. It would be a big trouble for us to transfer those wounded, let alone those medicines? If there are no medicines and supplies , these wounded will not last long."

"That"

Wei Ran was about to say something, but Father Hans turned around and walked into the ruins of the clinic again, took out two white sheets from inside, and painted a conspicuous cross on one of them with the remaining blood from a corpse.Then hand it over to Wei Ran, "Put it in the ruins at the entrance of the alley. I hope the Soviets are not blind. When necessary, we will raise a white flag."

Wei Ran opened his mouth, got up and took the red cross flag, walked a few steps towards the entrance of the alley, climbed up the ruins, tied it to a door panel that fell from nowhere, and stood it in the most conspicuous position.

When he came back, the wound on Mario's buttocks had been stitched up, and he was lying naked on a wooden box, waiting for his brother Marco to find his clothes from the rubble.

"Hans, Victor, come here."

After waiting for Wei Ran to come back, Doctor Lodge immediately greeted them and walked behind a piece of ruins away from the wounded.

"What's the matter?" Father Hans took the cigarette handed by the other party and lit it, then asked in a cloud of mist.

Seeing that Wei Ran refused the cigarette he handed over, Dr. Lodge directly stuffed it into his mouth, lit it and took a puff, and then explained in a low voice amidst the rumbling gunfire, "The wounded must find a way Move away, especially the wounded German soldiers."

"Because of the bathroom?" Wei Ran asked thoughtfully, while Father Hans, who was about to ask the same question, stuffed the cigarette into his mouth again.

Dr. Lodge nodded, "In this war, I am afraid that even Yuan Shou knows that it is only a matter of time before Berlin is captured by the Soviets. But before the war is over, no one should know about the bathroom, or we will."

"Then how many people are there?" Father Hans asked abruptly.

Dr. Lodge was stunned, "Nine children who are about the same age as Mario, and six Jewish women."

"So much?!" Father Hans lowered his voice and looked at Dr. Lodge seriously, "How long have they been here?"

"The first two children have been hiding under the bathtub for four years, and their mother or father were former employees or patients of this dental office."

Dr. Lodge turned around, looked expectantly at the battlefield at the end of the alley, and said in a tired tone, "Hans, I have persisted for four years, as long as I persist for a month at most, no, maybe only half a month , the war would be over if they were at this time."

"Needless to say"

Father Hans looked around, thought for a moment and then calculated, "On the right side of the alley, near the Moltke Bridge is the building of the Ministry of the Interior, and behind it is the Kroll Opera House. They must be the key targets of the Soviets. So if you want to move the wounded outside, you'd better find a room with enough space on the left side of the alley."

"And it can't be too far away." Doctor Lodge looked at the remaining buildings on the left side of the alley, trying to find a shelter for the wounded.

"The wounded will definitely be sent here today, why not let them think of a way." Wei Ran, who only asked a question at the beginning, stood up and said.

"That's the only way to go." Father Hans stubbed out his cigarette, "I just hope that there won't be too many wounded today."

"I hope so." Dr. Rocky walked towards the open space not far away, "Before they come, at least use the things you can find to set up the operating table first!"

By the time the three of them walked back to the open space, Marco had already helped his younger brother put on the overalls and sweater he had found from the ruins, but the bottom part of the pants had been cut out by the little nurse for a big skylight. All buttocks wrapped in gauze were exposed.

As for Mario, who was still lying on the box, he finally stopped crying at this time, but he was clutching the Boys League knife that belonged to his brother, his face was flushed red.

On the contrary, his elder brother Marco, after learning that the clinic will continue to be "open", immediately walked to the pile of material boxes and said, "I remember seeing a pack of tents when I was sorting these boxes yesterday, let me look for it. Here it is!"

Before the words fell, Marco had already taken out a huge canvas bag with a red cross printed on it from the corner.

"Set it up quickly!" Dr. Rocky, who was dragging the hospital bed out of the ruins with the little nurse, exclaimed in surprise.

According to the installation instructions printed on the canvas bag, Wei Ran and Marco set up the tent that can accommodate four beds in the center of the open space as quickly as possible. The red cross signs on the top of the slope.

"This tent should have been erected a long time ago. With it, maybe even the plane overhead will avoid us." Dr. Rocky said happily.

"The premise is that the Soviets still have a bottom line." Father Hans said noncommittally.

"You should ask those German soldiers who burned, killed and looted in other countries first." Wei Ran muttered to himself, bent down and took out two kerosene lamps from a box and sent them to the tent.

Almost as quickly as they were getting ready, four German soldiers came running over the rubble with two wounded on stretchers.

Wei Ran checked each of the two wounded first, pointed to one of them and said, "Send this one to the tent, and find a place to bury the other one, he has passed away."

The expressions on the faces of the two young soldiers carrying the corpse panicked, and then they all sat on the ground, including the stretcher.

"How's the situation on the front line?" Wei Ran took out two candies from his pocket and distributed them to the two soldiers. This candy was given to him by the other party before he and Mario broke up because of the wound on their buttocks.

"Thank you!"

The two soldiers squeezed the candy into their mouths, and one of them said with lingering fear, "We suffered a lot of casualties, almost fighting the Soviets room by room."

"How far are they from the Moltke Bridge?" Wei Ran continued to ask, "I mean those Soviets."

"It's not far away." Another soldier struggled to get up with a piece of candy in his mouth and said, "It's only two intersections at most, okay doctor, thank you for the candy, we're going to bring the other wounded over. "

"Don't rush"

Wei Ran stopped the two people, pointed to the wounded lying in the open air and said, "You have also seen that our clinic was destroyed by bombs not long ago, but even if the clinic is still there, there is no way for the wounded around to recover. Move in. Can you two help find a safe enough place for these wounded in these houses on the left?"

The two young soldiers hesitated when they heard the words, but before they opened their mouths, Wei Ran lowered his voice and said casually, "At least it's safer than going to the other side of the river, isn't it?"

"Let's go find it now!" The two soldiers were not fools, and after being reminded by Wei Ran, they immediately took over the job.

"Look for it on the left hand side of this alley, remember to stay away from the river."

When Wei Ran said this, he pointed to the wounded people not far away, "After you find them, you can carry those wounded there. In addition, at night, we need two loyal soldiers to protect those wounded, you guys."

"We will definitely protect these wounded!" The two clever ghosts who were dragged into the water by Wei Ran immediately made a promise.

Watching them turn over the ruins and run away without a trace, Wei Ran looked down at the corpse still lying on the stretcher, bent down and took off the helmet from his head, and put it on his head with peace of mind.

After the two doctors in the tent finished the operation on the wounded, the two soldiers ran back to find Wei Ran.

"We found a location that looks safe," one of the soldiers said. "Shall I show you?"

"Let's go!"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he took out two cans from the wooden box and stuffed them into their hands respectively. This small favor immediately made the two soldiers who looked several years younger than him more polite.

Under their leadership, Wei Ran turned over the ruins with corpses, passed through the two collapsed buildings on the left side of the center of the alley, and finally stopped at the door of a large room with a curtain left.

"This used to be a movie theater," explained one of the slightly taller soldiers, "I used to come here to watch movies with my classmates."

"I've been here too, and I was caught for fare evasion." Another soldier said regretfully, "I still remember that the ticket sellers in this movie theater are very beautiful."

"That's it"

Wei Ran took out his flashlight and looked around, then walked back and said, "You guys bring the wounded over here, remember to lift the ones wearing military uniforms first, then the lightly wounded, and the rest of the seriously wounded stay there first. "

Wei Ran was wearing a white coat anyway, so the two soldiers would naturally not object to what he said, and hurriedly followed him back to the open space at the end of the alley, temporarily placed the corpse in a bomb crater, and then began to transfer the wounded according to Wei Ran's instructions.

In such a short time, the only three hospital beds in the tent were already full of wounded waiting for treatment.Wei Ran didn't delay any longer, took a slightly cleaner white coat, put on rubber gloves and started to work.

With the busy work of the only two professional doctors, a half-doctor who looked more like a butcher, and a taciturn little nurse, a wounded person who was sent from all over the place was sent to the tent, and was rescued by the guards shortly thereafter. The two young soldiers left behind by Ran were carried out as patients or corpses.

When the humid mist was completely dispersed by the sun near noon and a wounded man who had been shot in the abdomen was brought in, Wei Ran was stunned.Because there is a camera hanging around the neck of this middle-aged man with glasses!
"So it's here!"

Wei Ran took a glance and then quickly looked away. With the help of the little nurse, he completed the work at hand as quickly as possible. At the same time, he was distracted thinking about how to keep the wounded man in the captain's uniform How to borrow a camera from him and use it.

However, before he could come up with a result, Dr. Lodge, who was in charge of operating on the wounded man, threw the hemostat on the enamel plate beside him, "Take it away, he's already dying."

Before the words fell, the two young soldiers who were waiting outside the tent immediately came in, lifted the corpse off the operating table and sent it to the bomb crater not far outside.

"I hope they don't take it away."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and patiently sewed up the wound.Then he temporarily left the tent under the pretext of urinating.

"Where's the lieutenant just now?" Wei Ran stopped the two soldiers carrying the corpse, "The one with the camera around his neck."

"In the bomb crater over there." One of the soldiers pointed to a short distance away and said, "Doctor Victor, do you want his camera?"

"How do you know?" Wei Ran, who was about to run towards the crater, immediately stopped and turned around.

"Apart from the P38 pistol, the only valuable thing on his body is the camera."

While speaking, the soldier opened the bulging satchel at his waist, took out the leather camera bag with blood remaining and handed it to Wei Ran, "Thank you for letting us stay."

"I just wanted to take a few pictures of everyone."

Wei Ran took the camera and looked at it. It was a Rollei double-lens reflex camera, but it was smaller and more delicate than the one he used in the Battle of Stalingrad before. Even the camera bag was custom-made. It is made of horse fur, and even has a precious gold Melee Assault medal inlaid on it.

"I also found some boxes of film on him"

After the soldier finished speaking, he rummaged through his satchel again. Wei Ran looked over subconsciously, and then quickly lowered his head to look at the camera in his hand again.There were a lot of valuable things in the soldier's backpack, and the flipping just now revealed a lot of watches, pocket watches of various styles, and even rings and even medals of different materials!
Wei Ran raised his head until the other party stretched out the four bakelite sealed cylinders, and gratefully accepted them and said, "Then I will not be polite."

"Take it!" the soldier said indifferently, and then he and his companion were called over by Father Hans in the tent.

Looking at the only seriously wounded people around the open space, Wei Ran fiddled with the camera in his hand, and then included the wounded, the tent, and the two soldiers who came out with stretchers into the viewfinder, and took pictures of the people who came to this era. After the first photo.

After the two soldiers left the camera range, Wei Ran got into the tent and pressed the shutter again on Papa Hans and Dr. Rocky who were busy.

"Victor, if you have time to take pictures, you might as well sew some stitches for the wounded." Dr. Lodge said without looking up.

"Immediately! Immediately!" Wei Ran hurriedly put away the camera, put it in the miscellaneous basket under the operating table, put on his gloves and continued to work.

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(End of this chapter)