194 1 After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Hitler's greatest wish was to hold a military parade after the Germans captured Moscow, just like when they occupied Paris. However, the tenacious Soviet army did not give Hitler a chance to win the battle of Moscow, and no German army could enter the iron wall of Moscow.
Three years later, this opportunity suddenly came: nearly 60 thousand German soldiers marched into Moscow and completed a late "military parade."
Photo: The most humiliating military parade in World War II
These German soldiers are all prisoners of war. They came from1Bagration Action launched by the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 944 (the same day that the Soviet Union deliberately chose Germany to invade the Soviet Union three years ago). At that time, the Soviet army dispatched more than 100 divisions and more than 2 million troops to launch a storm on the German army in Belarus.
The Germans suffered the worst defeat in World War II: the powerful Central Army Group was almost wiped out, with more than 500,000 casualties, even exceeding the death toll in Verdun in 19 16. The Soviets captured 65438+600,000 German prisoners of war. By July, only 57,000 prisoners of war had survived, and their lives were not easy: they had to be publicly paraded in Moscow.
Photo: German prisoners of war captured in Bagration operation.
In July 1944, 17, the humiliating "Moscow military parade" began. The official name is "Waltz", which is translated as "Waltz" with obvious irony.
German prisoners of war lined up in 90 phalanxes and entered the streets of Moscow under the escort of fully armed Soviet troops. Walking in front is 19, a general of the German Defence Force, wearing military uniforms and medals. The large troops behind were captured by soldiers in rags. Their faces are haggard, and most of them try to keep a straight face and maintain their final dignity.
Photo: German generals captured.
Photo: The front-line phalanx of German generals.
The citizens of Moscow who watched along the way naturally had no good face towards the invaders. They laughed, shouted, spat and even threw pots and pans at German prisoners of war. A surviving German soldier recalled: "I was so scared that I thought I would be shot after wandering in the street."
Photo: German prisoner of war phalanx
The "military parade" lasted for six hours, and the prisoners of war were finally dissolved not far from the Kremlin and sent to the Soviet prison camp by train. Few of the 57,000 prisoners of war who took part in the Moscow war survived the war.
Photo: German prisoner of war phalanx
One detail is that the prisoner ate something bad on the first day, or it may be intentional by the Soviets. Many prisoners can't help but have loose bowels in the process of * * *, and the ground is dirty. After the military parade, the Soviet Union dispatched sprinklers to clean the path taken by prisoners of war, symbolizing the cleaning of all the dirty things brought by the invaders.
Photo: Huge "Parade Square"
Needless to say, this humiliating military parade made the Soviet army very reassured, because since Napoleon's time, Moscow citizens have not seen the enemy defeated in such a humiliating way. The Soviets declared in the newspaper the next day: "This is how the Germans entered Moscow."
Photo: The most shameful military parade in history
So, did the Soviet Union go too far in humiliating prisoners of war? After the war, some Germans accused the Soviet Union of violating the Geneva Conventions. However, the Soviet Union did not sign the Geneva Conventions. Considering that 3 million Soviet prisoners of war were tortured to death in German concentration camps, the Nazi's excuse was that the Soviet Union was not a party to the Geneva Conventions. Therefore, as invaders or abusers, Germans have to shut up.
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