It cannot be said that Malashenko despises and insults Lieutenant General Dritz. This is obviously inappropriate.
Malashenko asked the reason for this question as soon as he came up. He was really curious at first. After all, whenever the leader division received a combat mission, almost without exception, it was in a deadly fight with the extremely difficult to deal with the elites of the Wehrmacht and SS.
, this is basically the case whether it is offensive or defensive operations in the past.
If you fight against such an enemy, then you can’t even think about capturing too many prisoners in an organized manner. The fighting will of those elite German soldiers is definitely as worthy of their name as their written numbers. Don’t even think that you can defeat ordinary German soldiers with simple numerical numbers.
The troops came to deal with them as well, and it was indeed unprecedented in the past to capture tens of thousands of prisoners at once.
Although the 41st Armored Corps is not an elite division-level unit with a written title, it is still a solid first-level main field group. When it is expanded to a corps-level unit under the National Defense Forces structure, then this is a corps-level unit.
The importance of the main elites who support the main force can be seen just from being placed on the front line of the border to face the Red Army's strategic offensive. Malashenko really wonders why the remaining more than 10,000 main elites of the National Defense Forces do not continue to die.
Knock, but choose to surrender very interested.
Furthermore, Malashenko also heard something about the 41st Armored Corps from the prisoners' mouths, and the reasons behind its seemingly weird and unbelievable actions. However, the words from the little major's mouth were still lacking.
Authenticity, because he only heard it through hearsay.
Only by obtaining confirmation from the more senior commander of the 41st Armored Corps who holds the core power, Malashenko can determine the authenticity of some situations. And if this information comes from Lieutenant General Deritz, who is the commander of the army,
Naturally, it would be best to break things off. Malashenko also wanted to see if he could open up the conversation with a question so that the next conversation could continue.
"Do you have a better place to talk? The conversation we are going to have is not something that just anyone can listen to, right?"
Compared with Malashenko's joking and asking questions, Lieutenant General Dritz's response was bland, just like chatting with friends and colleagues every day. The indifferent look on his face coupled with the words he said, it was quite uninteresting.
It really has nothing to do with adjectives like "arrogant and domineering".
Coincidentally, Malashenko, who had just won a great victory and captured more than 10,000 enemies, was in a good mood. He smiled easily and nodded in agreement with Lieutenant General Dritz's suggestion.
"Come with me and I will take you to a place you think is suitable for talking."
The forward field division headquarters led by Comrade Political Commissar has been closely following Malashenko's large army, so the actual location of the division headquarters is not far from the front-line battlefield. Malashenko's convoy soon followed the escorted troops
Lieutenant General Dritz and his party arrived at the field division headquarters and pulled over.
After getting out of the car, Malashenko immediately pointed at Deritz, who had just stepped out of another car under the supervision of the soldiers accompanying him, and raised his hand to point to a small tent not far away.
Then he spoke.
"How about this place? It's a field communication station. I can clear out the people inside. If you don't have any problems, this is the place."
Although Malashenko's words sounded very polite, he seemed to mean "if you are not satisfied, we can change it again".
But Dritz knew how powerful this seemingly young and harmless Russian brat was, and he was one of those super ruthless people who could say ruthless words and even carry them out. How could he not make him angry?
The best choice. Besides, Deritz just wanted a relatively quiet place to talk without an ear around him. He didn't mean to cause trouble, so he naturally followed Malashenko's wishes and slipped down.
"I have no objection. In other words, I should listen to your orders now."
"...."
Malashenko seemed a little surprised when he heard this, but soon turned his still expression into a smile. He smiled and patted Deritz on the shoulder without caring about the huge age gap, and said.
"Yes, very good! On this point, you are much better than that idiot named Paulus. That stupid donkey surrendered and still put on airs in front of me, trying to take away some dignity from me. It was simply
A joke."
Deritz, who was smiling and patting his shoulders as if being praised by his boss, didn't care about it at all. He was just surprised by what Malashenko just said.
"Paulus? You mean Marshal Paulus? You mean, was he also captured by you???"
The annihilation of the Sixth Army in Stalingrad is an eternal pain point for the whole of Germany.
Well, at least it was before the destruction of Sandoku.
This incident was publicized by Little Huang Goebbels' propaganda machine as a heroic German soldier who was loyal to his country and died on the battlefield in compliance with the orders of the Führer. His death was heroic, glorious, and great.
Any news related to the Sixth Army was, without exception, turned into positive news in a window-dressing manner. Anyone who dared to question or "publicly spread rumors" would be scrutinized, warned, and even
He could be arrested and imprisoned, and depending on the seriousness of the case, it would be possible for him to be shot and executed. Traitors of Germany would only die.
Based on this general background, even front-line senior generals like Lieutenant General Dritz have difficulty obtaining channels to understand the truth, and there is no need to cause trouble for themselves because of excessive curiosity and inquiring about information.
Sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing, and Dritz, who has reached the rank of lieutenant general, can still understand this basic truth.
Therefore, he only knows that Paulus surrendered against the orders of the head of state, but he does not know the specific details of the matter, let alone who Paulus was captured and who he surrendered to. He even originally guessed that it might be Chuikov, or even
He was a famous Soviet general like Zhukov, but he never expected that he would be the "Steel Butcher" so close to him.
Compared to Deritz's surprise and disbelief, Malashenko, who didn't think this was something worth bragging about, just smiled as usual.
"After you are sent to the Soviet Union, find an opportunity to see if you can meet Paulus. You can apply. I think there is hope. Then you can ask him in person, just say Namalashenko
He was the one who captured you alive, let's see if he admits it, ha... I guess there is no chance of him lying, this guy has been quite cooperative with our work so far."
"Oh, by the way, he also wrote an open letter to the German soldiers held in the prisoner of war camp, exposing the truth that your head of state deceived the soldiers and asked those poor soldiers to die for his ambitions. I guess you don't know this, huh?
You can have a good talk with him then, and maybe he can persuade you and let you know what the virtues of those rotten things in Berlin are."