"Allied troops were everywhere. They rushed to the beach in speedboats and launched intensive charges against our machine gun fire and artillery bombardment. Our machine guns kept firing, and all four spare barrels were red. We had no more
New barrels were available, but the Allies were still coming to the beach in wave after wave. There were too many of them! We couldn't hold on and the defense line was breached."
"The enemy is very tenacious. They are not the rabble that was rumored earlier. It even reminded me of the days of fighting in Russia. The Russian guys came up with rifles with bayonets and screamed like this. Those who rushed up
The Allied troops on the beach are no different from them."
"Yeah, who would have thought that the battle would be so cruel? Only we withdrew, everyone else, everyone else..."
.......
Wittmann, who led the vanguard at the front of the column, did not encounter the enemy he expected. All he encountered was a group of beachhead defenders who had just been defeated by the Allies.
The situation was not as bad as he had expected. At least the Allied forces were still wandering on the landing beach and could not continue to advance deeper. Wittmann felt that this might as well be good news.
However, Enschel, the commander of the 101st Heavy Armored Battalion who was staying next to Wittmann, did not think so. Now he was shouting and speaking in an attitude that was both angry and shocked.
"You cowards! Look at the time now, it's only two thirty-five in the afternoon! You only lasted for half a day and the Allied trash were rushed here!? You also abandoned your comrades and became
A deserter just living an ignoble life? Shame on you! You regard the honor of the military and the orders of the head of state as nothing. This is a cowardly act that is expressly prohibited by the head of state. You will all be shot!"
Unlike Wittmann, who can still maintain his rational self and clear thinking under most circumstances, Enschel, like Wittmann, is the final oath, the final leader, and a veteran of the SS who has experienced hundreds of battles, he has enough courage to shoulder this important task.
With his commanding acumen and skillful experience, he has a tenacious and consistent combat command style.
However, Enschel was so fanatical that he couldn't get a grain of sand out of his eyes. He was so fanatical that sometimes even Wittmann thought this was not a good thing.
If it comes to a critical moment, this fanaticism is likely to affect Enschel's correct judgment and then issue the wrong order.
Seeing that Enschel was so excited, Wittmann, who saw that the situation was not going well, hurried forward, pulled Enschel aside, and immediately spoke in a low voice.
"Hey, pay attention! They are members of the National Defense Forces. We are two different factions. Even if they are at fault, you and I have no right to deal with them. This will cause big trouble!"
"Honestly, if I didn't pull you, did you just want to take out a gun and kill someone first as a warning to others? Have you forgotten how much shock the Cherkasy incident caused? We are the passive party now.
,Do you still need me to remind you of this?"
Wittmann's nervous and serious face obviously didn't seem like he was joking. As Wittmann said, Enschel was really a little over the top. He also heard the "Cherkasy Incident" mentioned by Wittmann.
After being reminded, it was like an initiation with ice water, and I instantly calmed down.
"...Thank you. Fortunately, you reminded me. Thank you very much."
"You're right, Wittmann, something like Cherkasy can't happen again, otherwise you and I can't afford it. I was really too impulsive just now. Thank you very much for reminding me in time.
"
The so-called Cherkasy Incident refers to the battlefield in the final encirclement of Cherkasy, where the Wehrmacht and the SS were brutally surrounded by the Soviet army because they disagreed on whether to surrender or not, which eventually led to fighting among themselves.
Vicious events.
Although they were trapped in an encirclement with an impenetrable army, the wars of this year were far from being able to cut off shielded signal transmissions through electronic warfare in later generations.
Therefore, even though they were brutally surrounded and had no hope of escape, the remnants of the Wehrmacht, who had been tricked by the SS, still spread the explosive news, which was enough to cause a shocking sensation, to Berlin.
News of the abominable act of "Waffen SS troops attacking friendly Wehrmacht forces on the battlefield" spread quickly throughout the German armed forces and the city of Berlin like a prairie wildfire in autumn.
It didn't take long before almost all the top officials of the Third Reich knew about this shocking and vicious incident.
The senior generals of the National Defense Forces were the first to stand up and publicly express their anger, avenging the injustice of those National Defense Forces troops who died tragically at the gunpoint of their own people, and vowing to seek an explanation.
The first person to be verbally attacked and even to be asked for an explanation was the chicken farm owner and the actual leader of the SS: Himmler.
Himmler, who could almost be said to be roasted on the fire, fell into an extremely embarrassing situation. Today it was Keitel, tomorrow it was Jodl, and the day after tomorrow Krebs was included. These three idiots could even come to the door together.
Ask yourself to ask for an explanation and ask for an explanation.
Himmler, the annoyed chicken farm owner, was so angry with these three idiots that he almost wanted to scold him! He almost yelled at these three people: Why don't you just bully me if you leave the Führer alone?
Or will you, the cowards of the Wehrmacht, surrender first? Can a traitor who is willing to be a prisoner of the Russians still be called a comrade?
Although I think so in my heart, I absolutely cannot say this with my mouth.
Himmler knew very well that if he said this, he would completely offend the entire Wehrmacht from top to bottom. Even if he had the trust of the head of state to rely on, it would be of no use. If he had to be in the Wehrmacht and himself
To make a choice between them, Himmler had no doubt that he would be dragged out and executed under the orders of the Führer himself.
Compared to losing the entire Wehrmacht, what does losing Himmler mean?
This is not called lack of confidence, and it has nothing to do with distrust of the head of state. This is a basic truth that any adult with a normal IQ who has some political thinking can understand.
Himmler, who could only hold back no matter how angry he was, was actually even more angry about another thing.
The core members of the Führer's team, the dirty champagne dealer Ribbentrop, the lame liar Goebbels, and the fat and pig-like Meyer, at this moment, all of them have "nothing to do with themselves".
"Hang up", no one stood up and said a few words to help him deal with these bed bugs of the National Defense Force.
Fortunately, Himmler's troubles did not last long, and the Führer, who was also alarmed by the incident, quickly intervened in the matter personally.
The final solution given by the head of state was rather muddy and muddy in his personal style.
There is sufficient evidence to show that the Wehrmacht was the first to surrender in the Cherkasy encirclement and was willing to surrender to the Russians and become prisoners. This move violated the orders of the Army Headquarters and the will of the head of state. This was first and foremost the Wehrmacht's fault.
It was also a serious vicious incident for the Waffen-SS troops to attack the Wehrmacht. Although the Wehrmacht made an incorrect decision, other methods could have been adopted to correct and implement it. This was a top-down decision by the besieged SS.
A wrong decision, in which the wrong orders were carried out without the knowledge of the SS soldiers, was the fault of one person, not the SS as a whole.
It is worth mentioning that the final incident report, which the Führer personally reviewed, did not use the word "betrayal" to describe the behavior of the armed SS troops, but only added the simple modifier "vicious incident".
And given that the relevant person responsible has already died in battle, sacrificed his life for the country, and followed the head of state's personal orders to lead the troops to fight until the last moment, so failure to conduct subsequent investigations and investigations is tantamount to outweighing the merits and demerits.
The National Defense Forces must also strengthen the ideological education of the troops to strictly prevent the recurrence of such large-scale surrenders without fighting.
Although this result may sound a bit ridiculous, this kind of conflagration, where each has his own fault, has always been Hitler's specialty.