Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

That night, the 23rd Division of the Expeditionary Force moved towards the northern border of Ukraine.

Because of the roar of German aircraft engines that flew overhead from time to time, they did not dare to use lighting when marching at night, so they could only advance in the dark. What was even worse was that they had to build fortifications before dawn.

As a result, they traveled less than 20 kilometers that night and were still more than 200 kilometers away from the border. In other words, even if we walk at such a slow speed for another ten days, we may not be able to reach the Ukrainian border. By then, the German encirclement may have been sealed.

The chief of staff suggested. "How about we also find a city to fight street fighting?" As early as yesterday, they received an order from Marshal Budyonny, commander of the Western Front, to have all troops withdraw to the nearest city to build defenses. However, they listened to General Eisenhower. Commander's orders.

Division Commander Scott shook his head. "Our army has no experience in street fighting, and the Germans are not weak in street fighting. If we really want to fight in the street, we will probably suffer the loss."

In the original World War II, the first street battle between the US military and the German army broke out in the Battle of Aachen.

In October 1944, the Allied forces assembled 4 infantry divisions and 3 armored divisions, and their superior forces surrounded the German city of "Aachen". The German 49th Infantry Division was trapped in the city and unable to break out. This German infantry division, newly established in February 1944, could only engage in street fighting with the Allied forces alone.

The Allies repeatedly attacked Aachen with overwhelming force, using aircraft, tanks, and artillery to bombard Aachen indiscriminately. They fought for 21 days before the German 49th Infantry Division in the city laid down its weapons and surrendered. By this time, the U.S. military's casualties had exceeded 5,000. Both the 1st Infantry Division and the 30th Infantry Division had suffered heavy losses, were depleted, and even needed to be rebuilt.

The German casualties exceeded 5,100, and more than 5,600 people were captured. Another result of the battle was that although American troops captured the city of Aachen, Aachen's resistance delayed the Germans in flooding the valley behind the Hürtgen Forest on the road to Berlin. This forced the Allies to find another road to Berlin, and the Battle of Hüttergen Forest, which was more difficult than the Battle of Biachen, began.

The U.S. military spent so much effort, but in the end the gains outweighed the losses. They smashed the eggs with a hammer and made themselves smelly.

But now, once the encirclement of Belarus and Ukraine is officially formed, street fighting without follow-up forces will undoubtedly lose.

"We still follow the commander-in-chief's order and withdraw from Ukraine as soon as possible."

But the problem is still back to the original point. Evacuation from Ukraine is not easy. If the German encirclement is completely formed by then, wouldn't their hundreds of kilometers of journey be in vain?

This was like an unsolvable problem. They could only continue to move forward according to Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower's orders.

Berlin Palace.

"Tsk, tsk, this Stalin is really an assist."

After all, encircling Belarus and Ukraine is not a trivial matter. He was worried that many troops would escape before. Unexpectedly, Stalin issued a "no retreat" order, and no troops dared to retreat.

However, Budyonny ordered all troops to withdraw to the nearest city to build fortifications, which was obviously to prepare for street fighting. "Not a bad idea." That's what he said, but he was still a little annoyed. Rather than fighting in street battles, he preferred to play annihilation battles on the plains. But since Marshal Bubujoni was engaged in street fighting, it didn't matter. Even if he surrounded them without attacking, he could still trap them alive.

"What are the movements of the US military?"

The staff officer marked several points on the map. "This is where they are now, their expeditionary force commander General Eisenhower ordered all troops out of Russia and Ukraine, so they are retreating full force."

"This Eisenhower, tut tut." Yannick sneered twice without knowing why.

It's interesting to say that Dwight David Eisenhower is of German descent, and his ancestors immigrated to the United States in 1732.

Of course, this is not unusual. The United States is a country with a large number of immigrants, and German immigrants have become the largest immigrant group, surpassing Ireland and the United Kingdom. German Americans account for 17% of the total population of the United States. However, after more than four hundred years, the Germans who immigrated to the United States have long recognized the United States as their motherland.

The Germans are warlike and good at fighting. In World War I and World War II, two overseas German descendants led the US military to join the war group and beat up the Germans in Europe when the local Germans were at loggerheads with the British, French and Russians! (Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the US military who fought against Germany in World War I, was of German descent)

Moreover, Eisenhower, a German of German descent, hated the Germans very much. He said that a nation like the Germans that constantly launched world wars must be punished. He also personally built the infamous Rhine prisoner of war camp.

In early February 1945, the total number of German prisoners of war in the hands of the US military was approximately 300,000. Faced with so many prisoners of war, the original resettlement plan encountered organizational bottlenecks. Allied Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower issued an order to establish an open-air camp and place prisoners of war on the spot, so the famous "Rhine Camp" in the history of world wars was born.

The first consideration for setting up such a prisoner-of-war camp was to use the Rhine River to block the way for prisoners of war to escape eastward to the hinterland of Germany. The second is to make full use of the wide plains of the Rhine River Basin to accommodate the largest number of prisoners of war with the least effort.

After Mustache committed suicide on April 30, 1945, the German army, which was once known as "invincible," began to have a devastating effect on the German army. Within a week after Mustache committed suicide, Germany's armed forces collapsed one by one like dominoes. Starting on May 9, more than 4 million German soldiers became prisoners of war.

The rapid conclusion of the war in Europe caught the victors somewhat off guard. After the enemy disappeared, the first big problem the Allies encountered was how to digest the huge crowd of prisoners of war. Former opponents have lost all right to speak, and the level of compliance with the Geneva Conventions tests the international morality of each victor.

In this regard, the Americans gave a very different answer. On May 4, 1945, without reaching a consensus with the British army, Eisenhower unilaterally ordered the US military to treat German soldiers detained in Germany as "disarmed enemy forces" (Disarmed Enemy Forces) instead of "war" Prisoner of War" treatment.

In this way, the surrendered German prisoners were divided into two categories by the Americans. One category was German soldiers captured outside Germany and Austria, who could enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war stipulated in the Second Geneva Convention. The other category is disarmed enemies. Of course, the US military does not have to promise to give "Geneva treatment" to the enemies. It can completely prohibit the International Red Cross from providing living supplies to these people, and at the same time has the right to close relevant information about these enemies to the International Red Cross. All information about how a person is treated.

These prisoners of war, who were still "enemies" in Eisenhower's eyes, had actually completely lost their qualifications to be enemies of the U.S. military. Like animals left to be slaughtered, they were pulled by U.S. military trucks from various landing sites to the Rhine River, and then like animals to be slaughtered. Dumped garbage is generally "dumped" into the "Rhine camps". Each camp has many huge phalanxes separated by barbed wire. The main basis for dividing the phalanxes is the identity of the prisoners. The number of prisoners in each phalanx is between 5,000 and 10,000. The average number of prisoners in the phalanx is The area is 3-5 square meters.

German prisoners were sent into each phalanx in turn. After one phalanx was full, the barbed wire gate of the other phalanx was opened...

The US military usually does not provide food and water to new prisoners of war entering the phalanx for 2-4 days. No one can tell what the Americans intend, but the objective effect of this approach is: the captives who are struggling with hunger and thirst can only maintain physical fitness by reducing all activities. They have neither the physical strength to escape nor the physical strength. More importantly, a group of people who have become physically weak will be eliminated in this first round of survival test in the "Rhine Camp".

Once food and water were provided, the prisoners found supplies to be severely lacking. Normal people need 1,200 calories a day when they are inactive, and working people need 2,000-3,000 calories. The prisoners of war in the "Rhine Camp" could only get 400-900 calories of food every day. The food they obtained was mainly egg powder, milk powder, biscuits, chocolate, and coffee produced in the United States. When the drinking water supply was strictly controlled, such food quickly drained the body moisture of the prisoners of war, and many people suffered from severe constipation. There are no washing facilities, no medical equipment, no disinfection equipment, and no medical measures in the camp. The treatment and care of the sick and wounded are mainly handled by the medical staff among the prisoners of war themselves. There is only a simple ditch toilet in each square. Many sick and weak people often defecate in the shelter because they lack the physical strength to cross the dirty and chaotic crowd to reach the toilet. As a result, the environment of the camp is deteriorating day by day, causing dysentery, typhoid fever, and gangrene. Diseases such as pneumonia and pneumonia began to spread in various camps, forming a final blow to the dying people.

The Swiss Red Cross tried to provide food, medicine and daily necessities to the "Rhine Camp". After arriving, Eisenhower ordered these items to be transported back to Switzerland.

How many prisoners of war died in the US military's "Rhine Camp"?

Prisoner of war Werner said in the book "Brizenheim Prisoner of War Camp" published in 1998 that residents living near the Brezenheim Prisoner of War Camp confirmed that during the four months from April to July 1945, Here, they can see 120-180 corpses being taken away every morning. Based on this, Werner estimated that about 50,000 people died in the camp that housed 130,000 prisoners of war. The mortality rate is 5%. If we include the dead who were buried alive in collapsed tunnels in rainy weather, the mortality rate should be 15%. In view of the fact that the conditions in other "Rhine Camps" cannot be better than the treatment in the Brezenheim Prisoner of War Camp, Werner gave a terrifying calculation: 5 million people multiplied by 15%, equal to 750,000 prisoners of war in the "Rhine Camp" Death in the camp.

In 1989, Canadian journalist Bachchan published a book called "Planned Death", which caused an uproar in the field of historical research on World War II. After years of reviewing archives and documents from various countries and interviewing people involved, Bachek came to a startling conclusion: the total number of German prisoners of war who died at the hands of the Americans and who later died after being handed over to France was 800,000 to 1 million. Among them, Americans are responsible for more than 700,000 deaths. This number coincides with the conclusion of Werner, the former prisoner of war. Bachce believes that the United States has the real data, but the documents recording such information have either been destroyed, modified, or are still strictly confidential.

Yannick felt that Eisenhower's behavior was very familiar, just like a traitor who wants to show his loyalty to his master, so he must show his cruelty to his own people.

And like most people, he hates traitors more than invaders!

"It seems that a special war criminal quota must be reserved for Commander Eisenhower." According to generally accepted international standards, the so-called war criminals are the initiators of aggressive wars and the commanders and executors of war crimes. When an officer obeys the orders of his superiors, he is fulfilling his duty as a soldier and should not be punished for this. However, whether a person is a war criminal or not depends on the victorious country. After all, as the victorious country, it has the absolute right to speak.

"In the future, those captured American prisoners will be carefully screened, and all German American soldiers will be thrown into C-class prisoner of war camps. Now that they are here, don't go back, and stay in the homeland of their ancestors forever."