The fighting during the day has dissipated, and the remaining Nazi forces in the city are completely exhausted and exhausted.
But for many people who were struggling to survive during the war, Berlin was just the beginning of the day after nightfall. Those war refugees who had to escape the deadly war and survived to this day have long been accustomed to living day and night.
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The ordinary citizens of Berlin who were trapped in the flames of war were unfortunate.
Not only do they have to face separation from their loved ones, their homes are destroyed and displaced, and they may lose their lives at any time, but they also have to find a glimmer of hope in this apocalyptic hell-like city and fight with their lives to find any necessities and supplies for survival.
Food is just for survival, it's that simple.
But from another perspective, these Berlin citizens who live in the Berlin Zoo and rely on this giant air defense tower overlooking the city as a refuge to barely survive are lucky.
Colonel Sternheim, the commander of the Wehrmacht who was responsible for commanding the Berlin air defense tower, was a person of flesh and blood and emotions. At least this was true for the vast majority of Berlin citizens who lived under the air defense tower in the zoo.
Why?
Because Colonel Sternheim allowed these war refugees, who were impoverished and struggling to survive, with no hope of survival, to set out on their own at night when it was relatively safe to search for daily necessities, and then come back before dawn.
As for how much daily necessities you can find and whether you can get them back, it all depends on your own ability.
Nor can we just say that Colonel Sternheim is cold-blooded and accuse him of forcing the refugees to die without distributing relief food.
This giant air defense tower located west of the Capitol and located in the zoo actually has insufficient material reserves. Colonel Stetheim, who is responsible for the defense of this place and surrounding areas, is helpless in the face of the huge number of war refugees.
It is already Shithai's fault to allow refugees to go out and look for food at night when it is relatively safe, instead of being selfish and risking their lives for the sake of so-called safety by imprisoning large living people in zoos to starve to death.
Colonel Mu did the best he could within the scope of his authority.
Everyone knows that it is the largest G-type air defense tower, and there are only three in the whole city of Berlin. It is a well-deserved pillar node of the entire Berlin city defense. It is a morale monument that boosts morale and symbolizes the standing of Nazis. It is also a medical rescue.
Center and oversized material storage warehouse.
The German troops fighting in the neighborhoods around the air defense towers would not only send the wounded to the air defense towers with complete medical facilities for rescue treatment, but also would come to their homes to "beg for food" whenever they were in dire straits and money was tight and they could no longer survive.
As long as it is something that can be used, you can give me whatever you want. You can eat, drink, or use whatever you want. Anyone who comes is welcome.
Logically speaking, any German troops who came to ask for help were part of Berlin's defense force, and were truly our own in both literal and connotative terms.
Colonel Sternheim asked himself that he could not help others, especially when he saw the war-torn faces of those who might not survive twenty-four hours, and stretched out his hands to him with pleading eyes that did not look like a soldier at all.
I came just to beg for the stuttering time for my brothers who had been fighting for a whole day.
It doesn't matter whether you say you are soft-hearted or you say you have no principles.
Colonel Sternheim, who was already tired of this war and thought a lot about it. He really hoped that more people could survive the coming end of the war and built a new home on the ruins. In the end, he still followed his own path.
My conscience made the choice of "helping when I can, and helping when I need to".
But Colonel Sternheim underestimated the number of people who came to ask for alms, and also overestimated the ability of the seemingly piled-up anti-aircraft tower supplies to withstand consumption.
The final result within a few days was that the air defense tower was not only unable to help other people in need, but even the German troops originally stationed here, namely the troops led by Colonel Sternheim, had insufficient rations.
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According to the current momentum, even if the supplies are distributed in the lowest supply, it will only last less than a week at most.
But can this hopeless war end within a week?
Colonel Sternheim, who was confused and couldn't find the answer, didn't know, let alone who to ask for help or what to do.
Colonel Sternheim, who had no choice but to do so, had no choice but to let people go out to search for survival supplies under the protection of night. This was the only way he could think of since he could not contact any superior support or friendly forces to help.
"We are just a lone army, Colonel. We are a bystander who can do nothing when the Russians are wielding their butcher knives. We can only watch helplessly from the side, as if we have never worn this military uniform and have never been in the army.
It’s like making an oath under the flag.”
Colonel Sternheim, who had rarely come out of the air defense tower to get some air, was now standing at the bottom of this huge building. And the emotionless words that sounded in his ears came from someone who was right next to him.
From the mouth of the adjutant.
"I don't deny that you think so, but you can't deny that we are doing something meaningful, Hans."
"Look at these people, they are all people who should be protected by us. They are the people, relatives, and brothers and sisters who trust us."
"But what's the result? The result is that we can't protect them at all, and because we fail to fulfill our responsibilities, we direct the war on them, causing countless people who should be protected by us to die because of what we do."
"Is this what German soldiers should do? Is this the honor inherited by Prussia? Is this the content and desired result of the oath you, me, and all our comrades swore under the military flag?"
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The adjutant on the side did not speak, maybe because he was inspired to think about something, or maybe he just didn't want to argue too much and reserved his opinion, but his expression that seemed to be the same as a poker at least did not mean to completely deny it.
"History will judge what we do today, Hans. But I always believe that we should never give up hope at any time, because there should always be something meaningful that we as Wehrmacht soldiers can do."
Before he finished speaking, he looked at the group of refugees in front of him who had just returned from searching for supplies and could not be regarded as "returning with a full load". They lined up not far away and were inspected by the guards one by one in an orderly manner.
I use the pass, and then I can be allowed to go back to the tower to reunite with my relatives.
Colonel Sternheim, who planned to go up and take a look and ask what the current situation was in the surrounding city, suddenly heard a howling storm in the night sky above his head before he could even take a step forward.