Eiffel, a former commander of the 84th German Army, once talked about this issue. He believes: "The German infantry is as excellent as in1914-1918, with stronger artillery, more advanced weapons and greatly improved tactics. However, in the last two years of World War I, the idea of peaceful socialism spread in the army, which affected morale. In this war, Nazism is the opposite, and it can boost morale. " Roehricht, former director of the military training department of the German General Staff, also put forward the same view as above. He also believes that the German military discipline in World War II is 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 and still existed as a collective. The soldiers continue to obey the command of the officers, and the officers and men still help each other and face the upcoming life of prisoners of war together. On the road, Soviet soldiers especially like to grab the black uniforms of German armored forces. 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 spirit of soldiers are still deeply rooted in the hearts of officers and men, which shows the German military discipline.
Just like a clip in the movie "Brothers Company", the captured German soldiers are still marching with neat steps. In their eyes, they can't see the general depression of prisoners. They are still full of discipline as if they were still an army, but they just have no weapons.
I interviewed many female veterans who participated in the Great Patriotic War, and they were all included in the book "I am a female soldier, I am a woman". Let's take a direct look at the self-reports of these Red Army soldiers at that time:
Germans don't treat female soldiers as prisoners of war ... and shoot them immediately. 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 arrested ... A day later, we recaptured the village occupied by the enemy, full of dead horses, motorcycles and armored personnel carriers. There, we found her: the enemy gouged out her eyes, cut off her breasts ... cruelly hung her body on a nail ... in the cold winter, her body was white and her hair was gray. This girl is only nineteen years old.
In her backpack, we found letters from her relatives and a green rubber bird, which was her childhood toy. ...
Another female warrior described the scorched earth of the Germans like this:
We took back a village ... and found a place to fetch water. Walking into a yard, we saw a well, a well surrounded by wood carvings ... the owner who was shot was lying in the yard ... his dog was squatting next to him. Seeing us, the dog began to purr. It didn't come to us at once, but barked at us in a low voice. Then the dog took us into the thatched cottage ... and we followed it in. The hostess and three children are lying at the door. ...
The dog squatted beside them and cried. Really cried, like a human being. ...
We drove into our hometown village, where only a few pillars stood, and there was nothing left! We left nothing but a watermelon field in some liberated areas of Ukraine. People only live on this watermelon and eat nothing else. When we entered the village, they brought us watermelons instead of winter jasmine.
A man named valentina? Pavlova? Kay Remia jinnah guerrillas said:
I still remember seeing a Jewish boy ... a German tied him to a bicycle, and he ran behind the German car like a dog. "run! Run! " The Germans laughed while riding a bike. He is a young German ... when he is tired of playing, he gets off his bike. He made the boy kneel on the ground, touch the ground on all fours and jump like a dog ... He shouted, "Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! " He threw another stick and ordered the child, "Take it back!" The Jewish boy stood up and ran back with a stick in his hand. The German was very angry, hit him and scolded him angrily. It's more like letting the boy land on all fours, jumping like a dog and holding a stick in his teeth. Finally, the boy came back with a stick in his mouth. ...
After the German youth fooled the Jewish boy for more than two hours, he tied him to the back seat of his bicycle and walked back. The boy ran like a dog ... towards the ghetto ...
After listening to this story, you will also ask why we want to go to war and learn to shoot. ……
Sasha was only ten years old during the war? Kafruz said:
I remember a scene where the Germans chased the hen. When you catch it, hold it up and swing it from side to side until the head of the chicken falls into your hand. They laughed. In my opinion, our chickens crow ... like people ... like people's voices ... when cats, dogs and enemies shoot at them ... I have never seen death. Humans and other animals have never died. I only saw a dead bird once in the forest, that's all. I never saw death again. ...
Our village was burnt down on 1943 ... We were digging potatoes that day. Neighbor Vasily participated in World War I and knew a lot of German. He said, "I went to the Germans and begged them not to burn 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 down. Our vegetable garden and orchard were also burned.
This great war has evolved from a simple war between countries to the struggle for existence of all mankind. If the invaded people cannot 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 soldiers of the German Wehrmacht in World War II is still commendable. The Germans stationed in France and the Soviet Union observed the famous "Ten Military Regulations" of the Germans, while the SS did most evil deeds such as killing Jews and raping women. At the end of World War II, the German Wehrmacht even stood in the position of justice and joined forces with the US military to open fire on the SS. 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 to be told in this article is typical.
1On August 25th, 940, with the help of a powerful air force, Britain bombed Germany and launched its first bombing of the German capital. Since then, the United States, as an ally, has also joined the bombing. 1943 12.20 After the bombing of German industrial targets was completed, the US plane met the German Air Force flight formation on the way back. Horribly, most American planes have left the battlefield, leaving only one B- 17F bomber caught in the entanglement with the Germans. After a round of exchange of fire, due to the absolute disadvantage, the crew of the American plane suffered heavy casualties, 1 person died on the spot and 6 people were injured. Charlie Brown, the pilot, was once blindfolded, and the plane almost went out of control and crashed to the ground.
Finally, the flight attitude is adjusted to the normal state again. Brown found a German fighter plane following him and seemed to have locked on the target. The American aircrew aimed the airborne machine gun at the German plane, and both sides wanted to beat each other and shoot down each other in one fell swoop. At this moment, however, the German pilot suddenly repeated a gesture, gave up the attack and let the scarred American plane leave the battlefield. This is not an operational error of the German pilot, but an intentional one. The pilot of the German fighter was Franz stigler, who shot down and attacked 22 enemy planes in the war. He is a 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 solo American plane, stigler naturally didn't want to give up this opportunity. But when he locked in the American plane, he found that the enemy plane had been beaten to pieces, not only the wing was seriously damaged, but also a big hole was made in the cabin, and the crew inside was seriously injured. At this time, 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 inhuman thing did something similar to the Nazi German army during World War II. Germany has established more than 500 comfort stations all over Europe. According to statistics, at least 30,000 European women were forced to become comfort women, most of whom were civilian women kidnapped by the German army in the streets.
Most of these comfort stations are hotels in German-occupied areas, and the purpose is for soldiers passing by here to play. In concentration camps, the Germans also built comfort stations. As a means to boost soldiers' morale, the Germans allowed soldiers to go to comfort stations to solve personal problems, but at the same time it was forbidden to have sex with women in occupied areas to prevent the Germans from getting sick when having sex with locals.
1. One view is that the overall level of German military discipline in World War II is still commendable, and they all abide by the German "Top Ten Military Regulations". So, why is German military discipline so strict? First of all, this is related to the tradition of Prussian soldiers. Prussian soldiers regard honor as their life, obey orders and strictly carry them out to the end.
Secondly, it is related to a series of educational activities after Hitler came to power. For example, the field training of boy scouts and patriotism education. More famously, when the Germans attacked France, they didn't commit any crimes against the local residents, which also led to the surrender of many French troops, resulting in three times more puppet troops in France than the Germans, and they also took orders from the Germans.
In addition, Hitler gave the Germans a dead order: women in occupied areas are not allowed to be defiled. Because Hitler thought that the Germanic nation was the best nation, 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.
Therefore, it is really good to see German military discipline, mainly because of tradition (Prussian military soul), 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 practiced "scorched earth" (metaphor) on the Soviet Union, so naturally neither side would show mercy. They are all going to die. However, this is the late war, and human nature has collapsed, but the Germans have just started, and they are ok in Western Europe. First of all, the Germans will treat the Allies differently from the Soviets. The Allies will treat you well, at least, the Soviets will not. So why did the Germans only surrender to the Allies and not to the Soviets in the later period? If we compare the military discipline of the German army with that of the Japanese soldiers, we can say that the German army is an angel. I don't want to repeat what the Japanese have done, it's simply worse than animals.
There is also a view that the military discipline in Germany during World War II was not only not exemplary, but also very bad. Rape of women, killing of civilians, beating, smashing, looting and burning, and maltreatment of prisoners of war are all "good things" done by the Wehrmacht and the SS. Of course, apart from abusing prisoners of war (closing concentration camps), doing these things is still a scoring occasion for Germans. If it is in western Europe (such as France), Germans at least know that they have to queue up to visit the scenic spots and pay the French boss to buy a perfume. However, in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union, the Germans did not fall behind in all these barbaric and bloody acts.
Although the military discipline of the Prussian army has long been a model of modern European countries, Germany II, which was established as the successor of Prussia and participated in the First World War at the end of 19, still inherited the excellent 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, Shen Luo and Prussia were already 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. In Hitler's view, these backward nations (Slavs and Jews) in his mind are not "people" at all, and they can be slaughtered at will; And how can the German Wehrmacht, with Hitler's Nazism as its so-called "guiding ideology", have a 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 counterexamples in history. Because Rommel, manstein, guderian and other senior German officers and generals are extremely opposed to Hitler's Nazism and brutality, the troops led by these officers and generals rarely make these extremely brutal acts (the leaders don't believe me, of course I 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 and thought that the Germans had come to "liberate" them. Many residents not only provided all kinds of help to the German army, but even many defected and became accomplices of the German invasion of Soviet territory. However, with the development of the war and the high-handed policy of Germany in the occupied areas, the Germans began to do evil in these areas, burning, killing and looting. Forcing the local people to change their positions and continue to support the Soviet Union. The actions of the Germans forced the areas that had always opposed the Soviet Union to start supporting the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War. Is this what the Germans call high military discipline?
Moreover, Desan also set up many comfort stations specially for the army, the original intention of which was to prevent German soldiers from contracting sexually transmitted diseases due to misconduct after the war. In the early days, these comfort stations only recruited German women, but later they were expanded to all occupied areas. And as early as 1939, when the Germans attacked Poland, there were a lot of disorderly behaviors inside the Germans. When it captured Paris, this disorderly behavior further expanded, and thousands of Germans were addicted to the red light district in Paris. It is hard to imagine whether this situation will continue to spread in the German army if it is not for the establishment of comfort stations for soldiers. If Sun Dezi's military discipline is really so high, why is there a comfort station to prevent German soldiers from misbehaving? Although the Germans say it is to encourage soldiers and boost morale, they all use this method to boost morale, which shows their military discipline. If the German military discipline is really so high, why did they surrender to the Anglo-American Allies in large numbers in the later period of the war? Didn't the Bundeswehr claim to "inherit the Prussian spirit"?
German military discipline in World War II was not better than that of the Japanese army, but the Japanese army invaded us directly, and we recorded more atrocities of the Japanese army. The Germans are thousands of miles away in Europe, and we are not familiar with the atrocities of the Germans. Goering has already given the order: "shoot all those who dare not look you in the eye." The Germans carried out wave after wave of sweeps in the occupied areas. The Germans stipulated that Soviet civilians should be killed even if they had knives and razors in their boots.
Germany's Imperial Commissioner's District, Guard Division, Field Trainer, Police Battalion, Law Enforcement Police Headquarters, and the Oriental Battalion of the Puppet Army are all armed organizations that have wiped out civilians. In the Soviet-German War, the death toll of Soviet civilians reached an astonishing180,000.
1942, Himmler issued a decree prohibiting Germans from having relations with foreign women, and characterized this behavior as a crime against the Germanic race, which will be tried by a military court. Himmler also said unabashedly that I have no objection and will not cause pregnancy or emotional entanglements. In other words, after rape, as long as you are not pregnant, you will commit suicide. To this end, the atrocities of the Germans are actually very cruel. Moreover, there are also comfort women in the German army, the so-called battlefield brothels. All the women were civilian women who were arrested locally.
According to German regulations, each prostitute in battlefield brothels receives an average of 50- 100 officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers. The Germans were completely defeated and finally failed. Those poor women who used to serve the Germans were humiliated. They are also regarded as "Nazis" by local people, and more are called "traitors", including their children born in Germany, who have no peace all their lives.
The Germans' killing of prisoners of war is equally thrilling. The Germans slaughtered more than one million Soviet prisoners of war. The brutal slaughter of French and British prisoners of war. Fritz Nolan of SS was executed in 1949 for killing British prisoners in 1940.
Due to the atrocities committed by the SS troops, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg declared the SS as a criminal organization, and its1100,000 members were not entitled to the treatment of veterans like ordinary German wehrmacht soldiers after the war.
In World War II, this war brought tens of millions of deaths and brought profound disasters to people all over the world. As the initiator of World War II, the German armed forces are divided into the Bundeswehr and the SS. The difference between the German Wehrmacht and the SS is that the Wehrmacht can maintain a certain military morality and fight for the implementation of military orders.
On the other hand, the SS is made up of Nazis and loyal to the Nazi army. SS is the expression of Nazi extreme will. In order to promote Hitler's German chauvinism, they pursued fascism, invaded and expanded abroad, frantically pursued the policy of genocide, and massacred a large number of Jews. It has brought profound disasters to neighboring countries. The SS was notorious in World War II. After the war, the SS was listed as an illegal organization in the trial of the Nuremberg military court and was found guilty of serious crimes against humanity. SS leader heydrich was assassinated and Himmler committed suicide.
Guderian, a German famous soldier, was released after being imprisoned for three years because he didn't kill civilians after being tried.
It is said that the German army has a good military discipline. Then look at what the Soviets say, and draw your own conclusions after reading it:
Another female warrior described the scorched earth of the Germans like this:
A man named valentina? Pavlova? Kay Remia jinnah guerrillas said:
Alexeyevich also interviewed some old people who were children at that time. Please mention to her that I still miss you, mom.
Sasha was only four years old during the war? Su Yejin recalled:
Vanya, who was only five years old during the war? Titov said:
Sasha was only ten years old during the war? Kafruz said:
Lena who was only seven years old during the war? Crafcenco said:
Gaia, who was only seven years old during the war Zavoniye said:
Have you reached a conclusion? Is it necessary to appreciate this strict and exaggerated military discipline, or is it corrupt military discipline?
Let's put it this way: if you know about the crimes committed by the German army on the Eastern Front against civilians, you will be puzzled by the behavior of the Soviet army after its invasion of Berlin: too civilized, Red Army soldiers, have you forgotten your hatred? Forget the crimes committed by Nazis in your hometown?
German-style racism with excellent theoretical design can make most German soldiers sincerely believe that Aryan descent is sacred, Slavs and other orientals are born slaves, their culture and language are not worth preserving, and the only meaning of their racial existence is to serve the Germans. This is the so-called "resistance will die, and obedience will work for the Germans to death."
What kind of military discipline can soldiers who arm their brains with this idea have? Sitting in a row, shooting directly, mass killing, the blood of a German will be paid with the lives of ten to twenty ordinary residents. What kind of military discipline can this have? Unless you regard military discipline as simply obeying orders, German military discipline is "very good" because there is no order not to slaughter civilians and prisoners of war in the east, no order not to plunder and burn their property, and no order not to rape on a large scale. On the contrary, the actual orders of the Germans are full of "the empire does not raise useless people", "destroying the enemy's resistance base and even civilians" and "hunger is an effective means to destroy the enemy".
In the past, there was always an illusion in the military circles: the Japanese devils were cruel, and Germany had chivalry in World War II and would not do those things. Later, I looked through the historical materials and found that dressing well is completely different from being a good person. And in terms of efficiency, Germans are better at killing, mopping up, looting and famine than Japanese. They are completely industrialized assembly lines, everything has instructions, and they are truly accurate German craftsmanship.
According to the strict style of the Germans, they even shot at empty petrol cans. 1933 During the great famine in Ukraine, at least three million people starved to death, and the highest estimate was seven million. It stands to reason that Ukrainians should be full of hatred for the Soviet Union and stand firmly with the Germans, but why did all Ukrainians join the Soviet Red Army except a few guerrillas in Benjie's hand? From this perspective, what kind of crime did the Germans commit to make Ukrainians fall to Stalin and their loving father who starved millions of people to death?
Military discipline in Nazi Germany during World War II,
It is to maintain the fighting capacity of fascism.
Instead of maintaining peace and justice.
Nazi Germany was invaded because of this!
During the Second World War,
Germans are inhuman and sinful,
Fully expose its fascist nature!
It is the representative and symbol of fascism.
Lack of help will inevitably lead to the end of the road
It is the inevitable law of historical development!
Germany is divided into ss and wehrmacht. Germany is loved by most people because of the high quality of the army, especially the National Defence Force. Their task is to obey the orders of the state. Maybe Germany was an aggressor in World War II, but it didn't rob and kill old white goods.
The winner is the prince and the loser is the coach. As a defeated country in World War II, what is Germany's military discipline? According to the Soviet Union, the German army invaded the Soviet Union and committed heinous crimes against the Soviet people, which was even worse than the evil Japanese army. But there is also a saying that the German army is famous for its strict military discipline, unlike the Japanese army, which burns and rapes every occupied place. So, which of these two diametrically opposite statements is closer to historical facts?
Aside from ideology, I have to admit that the overall military discipline of the German army is good. In the German-occupied areas, there are few large-scale massacres of unarmed civilians, and unlike the Japanese army, the Germans rob people and money everywhere and rape and kill women in the occupied areas at will. Take the battle of Moscow as an example. At that time, the Germans were hungry and cold, and the Japanese army had already looted the nearby villages. However, the Germans did not demolish houses in nearby villages for heating, nor did they enter the village to grab food. Is there some rebellious image of "freezing to death without tearing down the house and starving to death without robbing"? Of course, this is related to the hardships of the Soviet Union and the strict military discipline of the German army. First of all, it has something to do with German tradition. Germans believe that the honor and value of soldiers are on the battlefield. It is shameful for soldiers to rob unarmed people. Germans always regard honor above life, obey all orders and carry them out to the end. Of course, the Germans have no mercy on the guerrillas and informers in the occupied areas, and they are either hanged or shot. So in Soviet movies, we can often see such scenes, many ordinary people were hanged by Germans. It is said that when the Germans attacked France, they were indifferent to the local residents, which led many French troops to surrender to the Germans. At one time, there was even a strange phenomenon that the number of people who surrendered to the French army was three times that of the Germans.
In the German-occupied area, it is rare for soldiers to rape local women, which is in sharp contrast with the brutality of the Japanese army. In addition to the strict discipline of the Germans, this also has a lot to do with Hitler. Although Hitler was a war maniac, he was a murderer. But he thinks that the Germanic nation is the best nation, and all other nations are inferior. If Germans have sex with women in the occupied areas, it will defile the noble bloodline of the Germanic nation. So he gave a dead order: the Germans were not allowed to rape women in the occupied areas.
Finally, we must distinguish between the German Wehrmacht and Hitler's SS. Anti-humanity acts such as killing Jews and abusing prisoners of war in concentration camps were all done by the SS, and the Wehrmacht rarely participated in these shady activities. Compared with the brutality of the Japanese army and the lax discipline of the Soviet army, the German military discipline did have many merits, although she was defeated in the end.