During World War II, the military discipline of the German Defence Forces was still very good, which was better than that of the Germans in World War I, especially in the later period of the war, and the morale and discipline of the Germans in the latter period of World War II were obviously better than that in the latter period of World War I.. Mainly because the morale of the Germans in World War I was gradually attacked by socialist ideas, people thought that they were acting as cannon fodder for the emperor. The German Wehrmacht in World War II was propagandized by the patriotic ideology of the Nazi Party, and the soldiers were full of admiration for Hitler, even in the predicament of 1944, they still maintained the belief of winning.
Eiffel, who once served as the commander of the 84th German Army, once talked about this issue. He thought: "The German infantry was as excellent as it was from 1914 to 1918, with stronger artillery, more advanced weapons and greatly improved tactics. However, in the last two years of World War I, peaceful socialist ideas spread in the army, which affected morale. In this war, Nazism is the opposite, it can boost morale. " Roehricht, a former director of the Military Training Department of the German General Staff, also put forward the same view as above. He also thought that the German military discipline in World War II was obviously better than that in World War I..
A typical example that can prove the German military discipline is that even after the formal surrender of the Germans in 1945, the vast majority of the Germans did not dissolve, but still existed as a collective. Soldiers continued to obey the command of officers, and officers and men still helped each other and faced the upcoming life of prisoners of war together. On the way, Soviet soldiers especially like to grab the black uniforms of German armored soldiers. In order to protect those armored soldiers from being robbed of their clothes, German officers and men always put those armored soldiers at the end of the queue to avoid being discovered by Soviet soldiers. Even though Germany has been defeated and surrendered, the collective consciousness and mutual aid of soldiers are still deeply rooted in the hearts of officers and men, which shows the military discipline of the German army.
Just like a clip in the movie Brothers Company, the captured German soldiers still March in March with neat steps, and they can't see the general depression of prisoners in their eyes. They are still full of discipline, as if they are still an army, just without weapons.
I interviewed many female veterans who participated in the Great Patriotic War, and all of them were included in the book I am a female soldier and a woman. Let's look directly at the self-reports of these Red Army soldiers at that time:
Germans don't keep female soldiers as prisoners of war ... and shoot them immediately if they are caught. Or pull them to the assembled German soldiers and show them: Look, these are not women, but monsters. We always have to prepare two bullets for ourselves, and we must have two bullets to prevent the first one from being a dud.
One of our nurses was captured ... One day later, we recaptured the village occupied by the enemy, and there were dead horses, motorcycles and armored personnel carriers scattered everywhere. There, we found her: the enemy gouged out her eyes, cut off her breasts ... and brutally stuck her body on the pegs ... In the cold winter weather, her body was white and her hair was gray. The girl is only nineteen years old.
In her backpack, we found a letter from her relatives and a green rubber bird, which was her childhood toy ...
Another woman warrior described German scorched earth like this:
We took back a village ... looking for a place to get water. Walking into a yard, we saw a well boom, a well surrounded by wood carvings ... The owner who was shot was lying in the yard ... and his dog was squatting beside him. Seeing us, the dog began to purr. It didn't come to us at once, just barked at us in a low voice. Then the dog took us into the thatched cottage ... We followed it in. At the threshold lay the hostess and three children ...
The dog squatted beside them and cried. Really crying, like people ...
We drove into our hometown village, and there were only a few pillars standing in the village, and there was nothing left! In some places we liberated in Ukraine, there is nothing left, only a watermelon field. People only live on this watermelon and nothing else. When we entered the village, they brought us watermelons instead of welcome flowers.
a man named valentina? Pavlova? The guerrilla of Keramia Jinna said:
I still remember seeing a Jewish boy ... a German tied him to a bicycle, and he ran after the German car like a dog. "run! Run! " The Germans laughed while riding a bike. He was a young German ... When he got tired of playing, he got off the bike. He told the boy to kneel on the ground, touch the ground on all fours, and jump like a dog ... He shouted: "sons of bitches! Sons of bitches! " Throwing out another stick, he ordered the child: get it back! The Jewish boy stood up and ran back with a stick in his hand. The Germans were so angry that they beat him and scolded him angrily. It was more like asking the boy to land on all fours, jumping like a dog and holding a stick with his teeth. Finally, the boy came back with his teeth biting a stick ...
After that German youth played tricks on the Jewish boy for more than two hours, he tied him to the back of his bike and turned back. The boy runs like a dog ... towards the ghetto ...
After hearing this story, do you still ask why we have to fight and learn to shoot? .....
Sasha, who was only ten years old during the war? Cafruz said:
I remember a scene in which Germans chased hens. After catching it, lift it up and swing it around until the chicken head is lost in your hand. They laughed. It seems to me that our chickens are shouting ... like people ... like people's voices ... and when the cats, the dogs and the enemy shot at them ... I have never seen death before. Neither human nor other animals have been seen to die. Only once have I seen a dead bird in the forest, that's all. I never saw death again ...
Our village was burned down in 1943 ... We were digging potatoes that day. Neighbor Vassili, who participated in the First World War and knew a lot of German, said, "I'll go to the Germans and beg them not to burn down our village. There-all the children live there. " He went and was burned to death by the enemy. The school was also burned down, and all the textbooks were burned. Our vegetable garden was also burned, as well as the orchard.
This great war has evolved from a simple war between countries to a struggle for existence for all mankind. If the invaded people can't win the war, they will face extinction. This war has indeed become a great patriotic war. -"The Great Patriotic War" Season 2 Episode 1
The overall level of the German Wehrmacht soldiers in World War II is still commendable. No matter whether they are stationed in France or the Soviet Union, the Germans abide by the famous "Ten Military Regulations" of the Germans, and most of the misdeeds such as killing Jews and raping women are done by the Nazi SS. At the end of World War II, the German Wehrmacht even joined forces with the US military to open fire on the SS from the standpoint of justice. In fact, in Europe, which advocates "human nature first", even in a hostile state, the brilliance of human nature is hard to hide, and the story we want to tell in this article is typical.
on August 25th, 194, Britain launched a bombing campaign against Germany with the help of a powerful air force, and launched its first bombing campaign against the German capital. Since then, the United States, as an ally, has also joined the ranks of bombing. On December 2, 1943, after completing a bombing of German industrial targets, the American plane met with a German air force flying formation on its way back. What's terrible is that most of the American planes have left the battlefield, leaving only one B-17F bomber entangled with the Germans. After a round of exchange of fire, due to the absolute disadvantage, the crew of the American plane suffered heavy casualties, with one person killed on the spot and six injured. Charlie Brown, the pilot, was once blindfolded, and the plane almost lost control and fell to the ground.
It's hard to readjust the flight attitude to a normal state. Brown found that a German fighter plane followed closely and seemed to have locked the target. The crew of the American army aimed the airborne machine guns at the German planes, and both sides wanted to take the lead and shoot down each other in one fell swoop. At this moment, however, the German pilot suddenly repeated a gesture and gave up the attack, leaving the scarred American plane off the battlefield. This is not an operational error of the German pilots, but an intentional action. The pilot of the German fighter plane was Franz stigler, who shot down and attacked 22 enemy planes in the war. He was the German ace pilot. Stigler was only 23 years old when the battle took place in 1943. At that time, he was only one step away from winning a Nazi iron cross medal representing the great honor of German soldiers, as long as he shot down a few more fighters. Of course, in the face of a single American plane, stigler naturally didn't want to give up this opportunity. However, when he locked the American plane, he found that the enemy plane had been badly beaten, not only the wing was seriously damaged, but also the cabin was punched with a big hole, and the crew inside was seriously injured. At this moment, stigler suddenly moved into compassion, he hesitated, and finally gave up this easy-to-get opportunity. German military discipline during World War II should indeed be affirmed. Compared with Japanese military discipline at that time, German military discipline was much stricter. But not everyone is very disciplined. The so-called black sheep are everywhere.
As we all know, during World War II, the Japanese army forced women to serve as comfort women for the Japanese army. Such a heartless and dehumanizing thing has also done similar things to the Nazi German army during World War II. Germany has built more than 5 comfort stations all over Europe. According to statistics, at least 3, European women are forced to be comfort women, and most of them are civilian women kidnapped by the German army in the street.
Most of these comfort stations are hotels in German-occupied areas, and the purpose is for soldiers passing through here to play. In concentration camps, the Germans also set up comfort stations. As a means to boost soldiers' morale, the Germans allowed soldiers to go to the comfort station to solve personal problems, but at the same time, it was strictly forbidden to have sex with women in the occupied areas, so as to prevent the Germans from getting sick when they had sex with local people. 1. One view is that the overall level of German military discipline in World War II is commendable, and they all abide by the German "Ten Military Regulations". So, why is the German military discipline so strict?
First of all, it has something to do with the tradition of Prussian soldiers. Prussian soldiers regard honor as their life, obey their orders and strictly carry it out to the end.
Secondly, it is related to a series of educational activities after Hitler came to power. For example, the field training and patriotic education of boy scouts. It is more famous that when attacking France, the Germans did not commit any crimes against the local residents, which also led to the surrender of many French troops, resulting in the number of puppet troops in France being three times higher than that of the Germans, and they also obeyed the Germans.
Furthermore, Hitler gave a dead order to the German army: women in occupied areas are not allowed to be defiled. Because Hitler thought that the Germanic nation was the best nation, and if it had relations with other nations, it would defile the blood of the Germanic nation. Although this statement is paranoid, it also plays a certain role to some extent.
So the German military discipline is really good, mainly because of tradition (Prussian military spirit), but because of the advancement of the war, ugly human nature has also been exposed. Especially in the Soviet-German battlefield, because of ideological conflicts and national inferiority, neither the Soviet army nor the German army left a bottom line, and Germany implemented the "scorched earth" (metaphor) to the Soviet Union, so both sides naturally would not show mercy. They are all going to the dead. However, this is the late war, and human nature has collapsed, but the Germans have just started and are still ok in Western Europe. First of all, the Germans will treat the Allies differently from the Soviets, and the Allies will be kind to you, at least, but the Soviets will not. So why did it happen in the later period that the Germans would only surrender to the Allies and not to the Soviets? If the military discipline of the German army is compared with that of the Japanese soldiers, it can be said that the German army is an angel. I don't want to repeat what the Japanese did, it's simply worse than animals. There is another point of view: German military discipline during World War II is not only not exemplary, but also very bad. Rape of women, killing of civilians, beating, smashing, burning and looting, and maltreatment of prisoners of war are all "good things" that the Wehrmacht and the SS have done together.
Of course, apart from abusing prisoners of war (closing concentration camps), it is still a point for the Germans to do these things. If they are in western Europe (such as France), then the Germans at least know that they have to queue up to visit scenic spots and pay their French bosses for a perfume. However, in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union, the Germans did not fall behind in all these brutal and bloody acts.
Although the military discipline of Prussia has long been a model of European countries' armies in modern times, Germany II, which was established in the late 19th century as the successor of Prussia and participated in World War I, still inherited the fine military discipline of Prussia, but Germany III was different after Hitler came to power. Although Hitler claimed that his German III "inherited the will and spirit of Shen Luo and Prussia (Germany II)", in fact, the set of Shen Luo and Prussia had long been eliminated in the army and replaced by Nazism full of extreme nationalism and racist dogma.
and what is the core of Nazism? In fact, it is the concept of race. In Hitler's view, the best race is pure-blooded Germans and their branches (blond Nordic race), followed by Italians, Indian Aryans, Mongols (Japan), Inuit, Australians (local natives), Indians and Africans, and Slavs and Jews are the last ones. In Hitler's view, these backward peoples (Slavs, Jews) in his mind are not "human beings" at all, but can be slaughtered at will; And how can the German Wehrmacht, with Hitler's Nazism as its so-called "guiding ideology", have high military discipline? I really don't know how high the military discipline of these troops who believe in extreme nationalism and racism can be. ! Of course, there are also counterexamples in history. Because Rommel, Manstein, guderian and other senior German officers and generals were extremely opposed to Hitler's Nazism and brutality, the troops led by these officers and generals rarely made these extremely brutal acts (leaders don't believe me, I certainly don't believe them).
At the beginning of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and the Baltic countries, as "anti-Soviet positions", welcomed the German invasion very much, thinking that the German army had come to "liberate" them. Many residents not only provided various kinds of help to the German army, but even many of them defected and became accomplices of the German army's invasion of Soviet territory. However, with the development of the war and the high-pressure policy implemented by Germany in the occupied areas, the Germans also began to