Warsaw fell after resisting for twenty-nine days, but it took one day longer than in history.
However, what is different from history is that the reason why the Germans took an extra day to capture Warsaw was because they dispatched the Undead Army.
And because of the dispatch of the Undead Legion, the Germans did not invite the Soviets to send troops as they did in history. Instead, they only spent a week to annihilate the effective forces of the Polish army, and then completely occupied Warsaw in less than 15 hours.
In the process of capturing Warsaw, the German Undead Army played a huge role.
This fearless force was well-equipped and completely ignored all Polish firepower except field artillery, defeating the Warsaw defenders with devastating efficiency.
This also frightened the Soviets who were watching the war.
At this time, the people in charge of the Soviet army were Kovalev and Timoshenko. Both of them were veteran commanders and combatants in the Soviet army and had rich war experience.
But even the two men, who have been on the battlefield for a long time, have never seen such a war and such troops.
If it were just the fighting will and fighting spirit that was not afraid of sacrifice and death, the two generals would not think anything of it, because the Soviet soldiers they commanded also had the same spirit and will, and they were not inferior to
The Germans are even better.
It's just that the Germans are not just afraid of death mentally, but physically not afraid of death in a real physical sense.
Every soldier in this undead army has been transformed by necromancy. As long as the body does not suffer damage from losing more than two-thirds of its limbs, and the heart and brain remain intact, they can continue to fight.
As for injuries such as being hit by bullets and being injured by grenades, these undead soldiers can completely ignore them.
And in order to prevent these injuries from affecting the soldiers' combat efficiency, these undead soldiers had their pain-sensing nerves cut off and completely lost their ability to feel pain.
If you don't feel pain, you won't care about the bullets piercing your body, your arms and legs being blown off by bombs, and your body being beaten like a sieve by shrapnel.
As long as the heart and brain are intact, the battle can continue.
What's even more creepy is the way these undead soldiers repair their physical injuries after the battle.
If they relied on medical methods to treat their injuries like normal soldiers, that would still be within the scope of Kovalev and Timoshenko's knowledge.
After all, they have seen unyielding armies on the battlefield. It is not uncommon for an entire army to fight until the end without even a single person intact.
Although the undead army in front of them does look a bit scary and its combat power is indeed strong enough, it will not scare two generals who have fought in battles and are battle-hardened.
But the way the Germans used to treat and repair the undead soldiers was to use Polish prisoners and use the flesh and blood of these living people to fill the damage they suffered.
The transformation methods of these undead soldiers were mixed with the transformation methods of ghouls, so they also inherited the terrifying eating habits and corpse-eating effects of ghouls.
Under normal circumstances, the Germans would not directly feed these undead soldiers with corpses or living flesh and blood. At most, they would just prepare some fresh animal flesh, viscera and the like for them.
Anyway, the same effect can be achieved, and the Germans don't want to be too immoral.
However, after a great battle, the Poles' resolute resistance still caused the undead army to suffer considerable damage. Some of the undead soldiers were even lost, and about one-third of the undead soldiers were seriously injured.
Many undead soldiers who were seriously injured triggered their ghoul instincts on the battlefield. Unable to restrain their desire to devour corpses, they ate the corpses of Polish troops on the battlefield, even the living and prisoners who surrendered after laying down their weapons.
After the war, the German commanders Lundstedt and Guderian originally wanted to restrain the behavior of the undead army.
After all, once this behavior of eating corpses and prisoners spreads, it will greatly damage Germany's international image and affect the morale and reputation of the German army.
Both Rundstedt and Guderian were relatively traditional and pure soldiers, not crazy communists, so they would not go too far in some things.
However, the Undead Legion is a force directly subordinate to the Führer and belongs to the Gestapo establishment. Only the Führer himself has the right to mobilize and order this army.
As a result, the two generals' efforts to stop them did not work. The officers of the undead army allowed the undead soldiers to engage in corpse-eating behavior, and when facing the two angry generals, they deliberately emphasized that this was to repair the undead army and restore them.
Necessary measures for combat effectiveness.
In the end, the two generals had no choice but to get a Gestapo, so they could only let their troops pull out the cordon and confine the undead army to the destroyed parts of Warsaw, preventing them from spreading to other parts of Warsaw, causing
Worse effects.
Although the Gestapo officer had a lot of power, he was not very willing to have too big a conflict with the two generals. After all, Lundstadt was highly respected and Guderian was also quite popular with the head of state. Although it was not an offense to offend them,
I can't afford it, but it's not necessary.
However, even so, the fact that the Germans ate corpses was reported by several war reporters who were not afraid of death.
This immediately set off a big wave of exaggeration in the international community. Although Britain, France and other countries did not make any effective offensive against Germany at this time, they did not appease Germany in terms of public opinion, but issued strong condemnations.
Although at this time there was no such thing as a humanitarian war, and even the Geneva Conventions did not stipulate this kind of behavior, it still challenged the limits of what humans can accept.
In fact, even within Germany, their own people cannot accept this.
Even though the Germans had begun to promote the theory of racial superiority at this time, and even formulated genocidal policies such as the Eugenics and Eugenics Act to artificially create so-called high-quality Aryans, the German people still sincerely believed in cannibalism and corpses.
Feel disgusted.
This also caused the first large-scale protest demonstration to break out in Germany since the head of state came to power.
Although the demonstration was quickly suppressed, and German officials came out to refute the rumors, saying that this was a slander against Germany by the British and French countries, the German people's hearts were obviously affected by this incident.
At least a small group of people among the people no longer continue to fanatically follow and support the Führer and the Communist Party.
It's just that this does not pose any hindrance to Germany, which is still making rapid progress. On the contrary, because it has captured most of Poland, the morale of the German people has been greatly improved, and the army is gearing up and eager to try.
Destroy more countries and capture the entire Europe and even the world.
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The historical Polish campaign started on September 1st, Warsaw fell on September 28th, and the war basically ended on October 6th. However, the Polish people in history never surrendered, but always resisted behind enemy lines. Compared with a certain flag
The white countries are much stronger.
In addition, Germany's Eugenics and Prenatal Care Act refers to the forced sterilization of people in Germany who are alcoholics, have mental illness, congenital disabilities and other "defects" to prevent them from passing on bad genes to the next generation and artificially optimize their genes.
It was the United States that proposed this so-called eugenics theory.
