Film and Television: Starting from the Journey to Guandong

Chapter 165

Lendulik, commander of Army Group Ostmark, was more active than Scherner. He abandoned his troops and surrendered to the US military on May 5. Later, he was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to 7 years in prison. In September 20, he was released and returned home.

On the battlefield, the 60-strong Army Group Center and the 40-strong Army Group Ostermark who lost their command fell into chaos. A large number of officers and soldiers began to flee westward in an orderly manner, fighting with the pursuing Soviet troops along the way. .

At this time, the 4th Ermao Front continued to attack for several days, and finally eliminated the rearguard of the 5st Armored Army on May 8 and captured Olomouc.

After removing this salient, the main force of Yereomenko's front army also began to advance towards Prague.

At 5:8 on May 20, German representatives and representatives of the Allied and Soviet armies signed an unconditional surrender.

Konev immediately announced the news to the Germans via radio and leaflets, and asked them to lay down their weapons within three hours, but received no reply.

At 23:3 that night, Konev resumed the offensive across the board. That night, the 4rd and 80th Guards Tank Armies rushed kilometers in one breath.

5月9日拂晓，二毛第2方面军先头部队从西北方向冲进布拉格，乌克兰第3和第4方面军的部队也陆续进入布拉格。上午10时，苏军控制了全城。

Starting from May 5, the Soviet army began to clear out the German troops from all sides. In the northern part of the Czech Republic, the 10st Guards Cavalry Corps arrived in Chemnitz to establish contact with the US military here.

The first part of the 4th Guards Tank Army moved west from Prague and arrived at Rokitsany, where it encountered the US military reconnaissance force; the main force moved south from Prague and advanced to Benyshov to join the 2th Guards Tank Army of the 6nd Ukrainian Front. .

The left wing of the 2nd Ermao Front moved northward farther west of Prague, and on May 5 it joined the 11st Ukrainian Front in the central section of western Czechoslovakia.

At this point, the Soviet army built two interception lines on the German retreat route. Most of the German Army Group Center and Army Group Ostermark are located east of the interception line and are surrounded.

The German officers and soldiers finally realized that there was no hope of breaking through and had to give up the battle and began to surrender in large numbers to the Soviet army. Of the 108 million total troops of the two army groups before the start of the battle, 86 officers and soldiers and 60 generals fell into the hands of the Soviet army.

同时还交出了9500门火炮和迫击炮、1800辆坦克和强击火炮、1100架飞机。5月12日早上，随着一辆德军251型装甲车在逃往美军防线的路上被苏军击毁，布拉格战役结束。

The whereabouts of the traitor Vlasov are hilarious. The Soviet 25th Tank Corps stopped a car on May 5. Vlasov was wrapped in two quilts in the car.

Soviet soldiers dragged him out of the car, loaded him into a tank, and was sent to the headquarters of the 13th Army, and then to the headquarters of the 1st Ermao Front.

Konev and Vlasov met in Moscow in the winter of 1941. Konev was the commander of the Kalinin Front and Vlasov was the commander of the 2nd Assault Army, which was affiliated with the Western Front. The defensive areas of the Nev Front are adjacent to each other.

Konev ignored the traitor and immediately ordered Vlasov to be sent back to the country. After the verdict of the Supreme Military Court of Mao Xiong, Vlasov was hanged in 1946.

At this point, the Soviet-German battlefield of World War II came to an end. In the 1417-day war, the Soviet army killed more than 900 million people and injured more than 1500 million people. If the civilian casualties are also counted, the number of Mao Xiong's casualties during the Great Patriotic War The population was 4400 million, more than a quarter of the woolly bear population at that time.

The number of German casualties during World War II was 500 million, of which 430 million were killed on the Soviet-German battlefields. If the number of wounded is included, the total number of casualties in Germany during World War II exceeded 2800 million, accounting for 1/3 of the national population at the time.

There is no doubt that the Woolly Bear won a great and just war, and that it was decisive in World War II.

However, they also left many stains on their credit book and were criticized by the world in the future.

The woolly bear has been in the flames of war since its birth. World War I, foreign armed intervention and civil war, as well as the plague and famine they brought, caused the population to show negative growth for a long time.

It was not until the 30s that, as the situation gradually stabilized and a series of health and medical measures improved the health conditions of residential areas and increased life expectancy, the population finally began to grow more steadily.

当然需要注意的是毛熊人口的增长很大一部分也得益于版图的扩张，例如1940年初人口达到了1.94亿，但如果按1939年9月17日前的版图计量，40年初则应该是1.74亿人。

毛熊人口的另一个潜在问题是男性比例在下降，由于30年代末一些军事活动和郑治风波的影响，39年男性性别比例（47.9%）反而相比沙俄时期（49.8%-49.7%）更低些。

People at the time probably wouldn't have expected that this would be the final peak of the Soviet Union's male population ratio.

On June 1941, 6, Germany declared war without declaration, bringing four years of war and huge human and economic losses to the Mao Xiong people.

The Soviet army basically lost its active main battle force four months after being attacked by the German army. The continued maintenance of the Soviet army's combat power against Germany and even the final victory was largely due to Mao Xiong's successful manpower mobilization. .

According to statistics from Krivosheev, a representative of the Mao Xiong military, the Mao Xiong armed forces have mobilized 480 million active and 2980 million reserve forces on the battlefield, totaling approximately 3440 million people, equivalent to 17.7% of the total population of Mao Xiong.

The German army had estimated the situation in the Soviet Union based on its own mobilization efficiency. In 42, it announced many times that the Bear manpower was exhausted. However, the efficiency and scale of the Bear's mobilization exceeded their expectations, causing it to perish in shock.

It is generally believed that World War II brought more than 2000 million military and civilian deaths to the furry bears.

Among the casualties of the Mao Xiong Red Army, the data given by Krivosheev showed that there were about 2900 million people.

This means that at least 85.9% of the military personnel were killed, missing, injured, or sick during the war, which also accounted for about 15.3% of the total population.

Considering that Kirschner's data mainly focuses on the group of "active military personnel", not the entire Mao Xiong Red Army.

The losses suffered by many militiamen, guerrillas, local air defense forces, local police forces and other departments involved in the fighting were not included, so the actual personnel losses will be higher.

The defeat in the early stages of the war caused the Soviet army to lose a large amount of technical equipment and personnel. At that time, the defense industry was still in the process of being transferred due to the massive loss of land, and it would take time to resume production.

During this most difficult period, Mao Xiong could only rely on mobilizing a large number of soldiers and using limited equipment to delay and weaken the assault force of the fascist German army. Although this method of tactics could defeat Mr. Xi's attempt to win a quick victory, a steady stream of Manpower consumption also overdrafts the vitality of the Mao Xiong people.

A large number of agricultural and industrial people were consumed on the front lines as combat forces, and gaps in the labor force at the rear began to appear.

In order to solve the problem of manpower shortage caused by large-scale conscription, Mao Xiong mobilized a large number of women, teenagers and elderly people to supplement the labor gap caused by losing a large number of men.

This has led to a sharp increase in the proportion of female employees in relevant departments.

In the middle and late stages of the war, the Mao Xiong Red Army was facing the same serious manpower crisis as the German army. Soviet combat units were generally understaffed, and commanders had to begin to find ways to avoid costly frontal assaults.

The problem of manpower depletion continued after the war. It would take until early 1955 for the number of residents nationwide to return to the level of 1940. In some areas, it would take longer to return to pre-war levels: the late 50s in Ermao and the mid-60s in Latvia. , and the white hair reaches the early 70s.

The massive manpower losses also hindered post-war economic recovery. Some people once estimated that even if ordinary workers in Mao Xiong worked 6 days a week and 10-12 hours a day, it would take until 1952 at the earliest to return to the living standards of 1940.

Although according to Mao Xiong's official statement, the results of post-war reconstruction were more successful than expected. In the third year after the war, the total industrial output value caught up with the pre-war level (the output value of heavy industry reached 1940% in 118).

However, due to the order of economic development of "heavy, light, and agricultural" and the sequelae of huge destruction caused by the fascist German army, agriculture still only had 1950% of its pre-war total output value by 85.

Another consequence of the war is that the loss of a large number of men increased the proportion of women in the population.

During the war, more than 100 million female soldiers served in the Mao Xiong Red Army (see the appendix for a brief introduction of Mao Xiong female soldiers during the war), and the main body of the Mao Xiong Red Army was about 3300 million male soldiers.

This shows that nearly 35% of the male population serves in the army, and it also means that the more than 2900 million casualties of the Soviet army in the war were mainly borne by men.

Statistics show that among those who were beaten to death or died of injuries before the age of 50 at that time, men were about three times more likely than women.

Finally, in 1950, men accounted for 43.9% of the total population, down from 1940% in 47.9.

On the other hand, in Germany, during the second station, the number of registered officers and soldiers of the German army was as high as 1700 million, and the number of casualties also exceeded 1000 million. So how many of them were killed on the battlefield?

The accurate number of casualties has always been a difficulty in the statistical work of various countries participating in the war. The so-called battle deaths should include those killed in action, those killed in combat wounds, those killed in battle diseases, and those missing. There are also other categories of casualties, such as those who died after being captured.

According to post-war statistics, a total of 457 million people died in the German army during the Second World War, but the real number of "battle deaths" was more than 320 million people, and battle dead accounted for about 70% of the deaths.

About 130 million people died in other ways, such as the 91000 people captured in the Battle of Stalingrad, and only 5000 survivors after the war.

The composition of the German army is very complex, and it can be divided into at least seven sources of troops:

1. For the Germans who came to power but did not start the expansion period, the time node should be the end of 1936;

2. Austrians annexed by Germany; 3. Germans in Eastern Europe, such as the Germans in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and some republics of the former Soviet Union;

4. The Germans in Alsace and Lorraine who were recaptured by Germany.

These four departments were the main sources of troops for the Nazi Wehrmacht, accounting for the vast majority of the more than 1000 million troops.

In addition to the Germans, the Armed SS also includes three other parts: 5. Mao bears and Polish prisoners of war; 6. Volunteers from Western and Northern Europe; 7. Volunteers from other continents (mainly Asia and America), among which Maurice Excluding the deaths of puppet troops composed of bears and Polish prisoners of war, the death toll in Parts 6 and 7 was only over 30000.

Among all the deaths of officers and soldiers, the largest number of deaths occurred on the Soviet-German battlefield, reaching 380 million, accounting for 83%; followed by the French Campaign in 1940 and the Western European battlefields after 1944, with more than 50 deaths, accounting for 11% , it can be seen that Mao Xiong’s Patriotic War was indeed the main battlefield of the Second World War in Europe.

The total number of deaths on other battlefields was about 27, accounting for 6%, including 1943 deaths on the Italian battlefield after 15; 105000 deaths in various countries in the Balkan Peninsula (Yugoslavia killed the most, followed by the Greek army and the British army) ; In 1939, 12000 people died in the Polish campaign, 15000 people died in the North African battlefield, and other deaths occurred during resistance activities in some occupied areas.

This is only the number of deaths and combat deaths, excluding combat injuries and disabilities, otherwise the number would have exceeded 1000 million.

Germany's defeat in World War II was fundamentally different from its defeat in World War I. Germany's end of the war in 1918 was only the collapse of the imperial system, the Kaiser fled, and the General Staff was abolished, but all the traditional institutions that supported the country remained. After the war, especially the local political power still existed, it was still a country with a government and organization.

However, after World War II, due to the suicide or arrest of high-level German officials, the casualties of more than 1000 million soldiers, millions of soldiers becoming prisoners, and being declared illegal, the entire Third Reich and any level of regime no longer existed.

The entire Germany was ruled by the occupying forces of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France. The number of men capable of working in Germany was almost zero. Most of the tens of millions of residents were women, children, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. They had to rely on the occupying forces to maintain law and order. At the same time, They also had to rely on the occupation forces to provide food and fuel to survive the cold winter of 1945.

It not only caused more Germans to die of hunger and cold, but also made it very difficult to rebuild Germany in ruins. After the war, Germany was in a very miserable situation, all of which were given by Uncle Hee.

In a sense, it was also the Germans' own choice, because they blindly chose Uncle Xi and followed him wholeheartedly towards war and destruction.

From the first gunshot on September 1939, 9, it lasted five years, eight months and seven days. Not to mention ordinary soldiers and low-level officers, according to research, the average German division commander died every three weeks, and the average number of corps commanders was three. One person died every month, which shows how tragic the second station was.

Of course, this number is not accurate at all, and subsequent statistics are not scientifically possible at all. All figures are only rough estimates.

But no matter what, tragedy is synonymous with the Soviet-German war. Whether you are directly involved in this war or not, you will be so close to death!

(End of this chapter)