Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 87 Join the war
This voice!

The door opened, and Rosia lowered her head in disbelief. Sure enough, she saw Pino wearing a black leather jacket, blinking at her, and suddenly narrowed his eyes into crescent moons: "Sister!"

"Pino?!"

Rosia was completely confused. What happened during the time she took the train? What did she miss?
"You, how did you come back?"

Pino stretched out a hand and pulled her into the door: "Come in first, it's raining outside!"

Rosia was pulled by him stupidly, her whole body seemed to be floating on clouds, and she entered the living room. Aunt Mesa also stood up.

"I'm home!"

"Uh, ah... um!" Rosia stammered in response.

Pino pointed at her face and smiled: "Haha, look at my sister, she can't even speak!"

Rosia still felt a little unbelievable. She knelt down and pinched his little face. She was a little thinner, but still healthy. He didn't look like he had encountered any catastrophe. Could it be that he wasn't taken away? All this was actually just a dream she had?

"Pino, how did you come back?" She grabbed his arm.

Aunt Mesa sat down again with a smile and looked at him.

Pino tilted his head, looking a little reluctant: "Humph."

yo!

Rosia and Aunt Mesa were both shocked. When did this little guy learn this thing when he went out? It was so scary!It's like a Q version of little Heinrich.

Pino entangled his hands together, shook his body reluctantly, and for the first time put on that coy look: "Brother Heinrich, who doesn't wash his hands, asked Uncle Dick to send me back. .”

what?
Heinrich, that guy?Rosia was completely confused.

Aunt Mesa just saw Pino last night, so she didn’t know where he had gone. She just thought that he was casually rescued by Heinrich and lived with him for half a month, so he was not like Rosia. of surprise and emotion.He just patted Pino on the head with disapproval: "Why are you calling people random names?"

Pino was very persistent in naming a person. He never forgot that Heinrich didn't wash his hands after eating for a year, and he never forgot that Dick was an uncle for two years.He rubbed his head and muttered: "Then he let me call him random names."

"What nonsense name?" Rosia was confused.

Pino stepped back and sat down on the sofa. He looked like he was being taken advantage of and tugged on his fingers: "Brother Heinrich asked me to call him daddy in front of others!"

"..."

Rosia and Aunt Mesa were all petrified!

After a long time, Rosia reluctantly reacted: "Well, he may just want to rescue you. Otherwise, the people there will not be willing to let you go."

Pino was coy and unaccustomed: "I know, he also obtained a lot of documents and found a lot of people."

Aunt Mesa was a little confused: "What are you talking about, why don't I know?" She touched Pino's head again: "Don't you always live at your brother Heinrich's house?"

Pino said nothing and only looked at Rosia. Rosia quickly changed the subject: "I was sent to another place by the hospital a few days ago and I haven't come back for several days. Aunt, you were discharged from the hospital so quickly, and the wounds and everything are healed. ?"

"Good, good." Aunt Mesa touched her ribs, feeling a little regretful: "It's just that I have scars, so I can no longer wear deep strapless clothes."

"..."

Why was she worried that Aunt Meisha would leave a psychological shadow!
Rosia was helpless: "It's winter now. Besides, where we are, only when the neckline is tightly wrapped is the beauty of abstinence."

"Is that right?"

"Absolutely."

After Aunt Mesa was relieved, she sat on the sofa and read a book by the fire. Rosia kidnapped Pino, and the two siblings ran upstairs secretly.

As soon as she entered the room, Rosia closed the door and looked at Pino with a serious expression: "Tell me, are you injured anywhere?"

But he didn't expect that Pino's cheerfulness below was also fake. Rosia was the only one left in the room. As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help crying: "Sister, I'm scared!"

Rosia was startled, her hands stiffened, and after a while she took him into her arms, patted his back and coaxed him: "It's okay, I'm back now..."

Pino grabbed her collar and cried: "Sister, you said you would find me soon, but you didn't come."

Rosia's heart suddenly ached terribly, she hugged him tightly, blaming herself: "It's all my fault, I made Pino suffer!"

"Uh-huh, the only thing we eat every day is potatoes. Those kids are fighting for my food. I can't beat them!"

"When they arrested me, they all hid and wouldn't let me in!"

“It’s very cold to sleep at night, and everyone is grabbing those rags with a bad smell.”

Pino was crying, but he only complained a few words, and then spoke for them: "But they are so pitiful. If their parents don't work, they will be taken out and beaten, and they can't eat."

"That time Nina stole a chicken to eat, and later she said her mother was beaten to death!"

Rosia's heart ached when she heard this. When she was sad in the concentration camp, Pino didn't have a good life either.

"And you, are you injured?"

Pino shook his head: "I wasn't hurt, but the day Brother Heinrich came to find me, he scolded me."

"What did he scold you for?" Rosia felt a little guilty. He had been slapped by her that day, and she should have gone crazy. She hoped he wouldn't say anything too unpleasant to Pino.

"I don't understand, it seems to be Czech!"

"..." Then how do you know he scolded you!

Pino cried and felt much better.Just looking at the current situation, he should have just been frightened, starved, or injured from corporal punishment.

Children tend to get sleepy easily. After crying and talking to Rosia for a while, they fell asleep in her arms.

Rosia patted his back and sat for a while. Seeing that he was completely asleep, she picked him up and put him on the bed.

She had been worried and sad for so long, and now that the little one was back, she finally let go of the big stone in her heart and felt much better.

It's just that she still can't believe that Heinrich saved Pino.Recalling Heinrich's crazy appearance at that time, she thought that he would never return on the road of madness, perversion and bloodthirsty, but she did not expect that he still saved Pino in the end. Could it be that he was hit by that slap? woke up?Do you understand that everything you did in the past was sin?Want to do something to atone?
Rosia thought for a while and felt that the possibility was almost zero. The bizarre thoughts of the SS were not something we mortals could understand.

But with that slap, Heinrich, a tsundere, probably no longer wants to pay attention to her, so she should just stay at home and be a transparent person.

She sat down on the other side of the bed, opened the drawer, took a razor blade and cut open Vitti's envelope.

Maybe it's been in the mailbox for a long time, and it has the smell of weather in it.Rosia unfolded it little by little and found that it was just a note, and the neat French written by a pen appeared on the paper.

"Xia, I heard that you took leave and went to Poland. I don't know what happened, but I have been transferred to Studdorf. I didn't expect that this was a concentration camp built in the mountains. I had never heard of a formal concentration camp in France before. Aren’t the concentration camps all quarantine areas?
But I don't worry, I will definitely be able to complete the task well. When the time comes, don't forget to invite me to your house for dinner. I really can't forget Aunt Mesa's wonderful craftsmanship.Well, I just came here. The air here is very good. Let me get familiar with it first. I will send you a letter in three days. You must read it!

I love you Vitti the most! "

The letter was not long and contained only these few sentences. There was also a pair of cute little earrings in the envelope, which must have been a gift she stuffed inside.

Although she was very optimistic and cheerful in her words, this last sentence really made people unhappy.

Three days later?Judging from the looks of it, this letter has been sitting there for at least half a month.

Rosia stood up and quietly walked out of the room. Outside the door, she opened the mailbox and flipped through it. There was nothing except a few newspapers.

No one would come over and steal the letter, so Vitti didn't send the letter. Did something happen to her?
Rosia looked at the address on the letter again. She had been to Studorf. Although she only stayed for half a day, it was not a good place.In fact, she guessed that there should be some kind of mineral vein in Studorf, and the concentration camp built there was to work the Jews in mining, because when she left, she had seen Jews working in the mountains from a distance.

So, what was Vitti sent there for?

Manage the eating, drinking, drinking, eating, drinking, and hygiene of those Jews, witness their torture, and then supervise how they were killed by the German Nazis?
Rosia felt that this mission was so perverted that she never wanted to think about the nightmare in the concentration camp again in her life.

After resting at home for a day, Rosia went to the hospital the next day.

With this kind of national hatred on the verge of breaking out and the Nazis starting to arrest Jews, the situation in the hospital was not very good either. It was searched every three to five.Most of the people were sent to various parts of Europe, and perhaps only one-third remained.

There are indeed many new trainee nurses recently, and they are all promoted from some medical schools.However, the Red Cross has very strict requirements for nurses who are going to be sent to the battlefield or to complete various humanitarian tasks. They must not only have excellent medical and nursing abilities, but also have certain requirements in terms of language and diplomatic skills. .

Dr. Jim especially emphasized during the assessment that if people are divided into four categories: smart, not smart, diligent, and lazy, each person corresponds to two items. People like those who are not smart but very diligent should quickly let her Just get out of here.

Rosia also took two days of basic thoracic surgery classes in the hospital, and at the end of the month she would go with Jim and other doctors to assess new trainee nurses.

The time is fast approaching December, Christmas is coming soon, and the hospital is starting to take a break.

On this day, Rosia was sitting on the sofa at home, drinking corn soup made by Aunt Mesa, warming the fire, and listening to the radio quietly.

"...Not long ago, the German Third Reich troops had occupied more than 150 million square kilometers of territory in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, controlling approximately 40% of the population and most of the industrial areas in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Regarding this matter, Article [-] Hitler, the head of the Three Reichs, delivered several speeches in Berlin and awarded three Iron Cross Medals of Honor to outstanding soldiers and officers in this battle."

Aunt Mesa was reading a book, but at this moment she raised her head and listened carefully. After a long time, she sighed: "I wonder when Werner will come back!"

Rosia rubbed his hands and leaned closer to the fireplace. Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in June. Its consistent blitzkrieg style allowed it to quickly conquer such a large territory.Listening to what is being said on the radio, it seems that Germany still has the upper hand.But from a historical point of view, Germany’s campaign has already planted the seeds of its demise. Now that Paris is so cold, how long can the German soldiers who experienced the Siberian cold wave in the Soviet Union last? Their bodies simply cannot withstand such a bitter cold climate.

Werner is a major after all. I just hope that he can use his power to be lazy and never work hard in the Soviet Union.

"...The report on the European battlefield has been completed. The following news is that in the early morning of December 1941, 12, the Japanese navy raided the U.S. military base Pearl Harbor without warning, severely damaging the U.S. Pacific Fleet at a small cost. The following is the United States President Roosevelt addresses Congress.”

As soon as the broadcast came out, Rosia and Aunt Mesa were stunned.

Rosia didn't expect that Japan had quietly attacked Pearl Harbor two days ago, and Aunt Mesa was just curious about Japan.

"Yesterday, December 1941, 12 - a day that must always be remembered as an infamy - the United States of America came under a sudden and deliberate attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Force..."

A heavy voice came from the radio, as if in an empty place. His voice was distant and calm, telling a fact to the world and calling out to the people in distant countries.

"History will prove that Hawaii's distance from Japan indicates that this attack was carefully planned over many days or even weeks. During this period, the Japanese government deliberately deceived the United States with false statements and expressed desire to continue to maintain peace. .

……

Yesterday, the Japanese government launched an attack on Malaya.

Last night, Japanese troops attacked Hong Kong.

Last night, Japanese troops attacked Guam.

Last night, Japanese troops attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

This morning, the Japanese attacked Midway.

……

Hostilities already exist.It goes without saying that our people, our territory and our interests are all in grave danger.

Believe in our armed forces - and rely on the unwavering determination of our people - we will achieve inevitable victory, God help us!

I ask Congress to declare that since Sunday, December 1941, 12, when Japan launched its unprovoked and cowardly attack, there has been a state of war between the United States and the Empire of Japan. "

After the last sentence fell, Rosia was so shocked that she couldn't make any sound.

Like fate!

The scene in the White House spontaneously appeared in her mind, with angry and sad Americans, the solemn and heavy palace, swearing to the world that they were participating in the war.

Aunt Mesa listened blankly for a long time. It was not until the long English passage passed and she heard the translation that she raised her head and met Rosia's eyes: "Japan seems to be really powerful!"

puff!
Rosia wanted to give up.

You have been listening for a long time, with such a serious expression on your face. Is that what you want to say?
Aunt Mesa closed the book on her lap, tilted her head and said, "Didn't Roosevelt talk about it five times last night? Plus one this morning, Japan can attack so many places at the same time in one day." She looked up at the sky, with a look on her face. While thinking, a name suddenly came to mind: "Hey, Hong Kong, isn't that China?"

Rosia was startled and looked a little strange, but soon she smiled and nodded: "Yes, Hong Kong belongs to China."

There was a solemnity in her tone that only she knew.

During this period, when Hong Kong was still in the hands of the British, she was very happy to hear the sentence that Hong Kong belongs to China.

It has always been Chinese.

(End of this chapter)