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    The Soviet Army continued to use the Katyusha rocket, codenamed "Thunderbolt", as a psychological weapon and an area target attack weapon.  <-> Early on the morning of April 26, Colonel Reifer, chief of the Berlin city defense staff, who was at the Hohenzorundamm headquarters, was awakened from his sleep by a burst of rapid test firing of artillery shells. The Russians called it a "rehearsal"  ".

    "The same old frontline game of alerting the enemy!" Leifer knew that this was a "greeting" activity before the "Katyusha" rocket attack.  If their command post is already within the strike range of the Katyusha rocket, now is the time to move the command post.  General Weidling had already decided to move his headquarters to the Bendler District, which was the German Army's former headquarters in Bendlerstrass, where Colonel Kent von Stauffenberg was located after the failure of the July Plot.  Being executed here.  It had a well-equipped air raid shelter and was close to the Reich Chancellery, to which Weidling was often called.

    Deep in the Bendler District, General Weidling's staff had completely lost the concept of day and night. They drank coffee and smoked cigarettes to stay awake.  Fortunately, there is a generator here, so there is light at all times, but the air is clammy and turbid.  They also had to deal with increasingly frequent emergency requests for assistance from various defense area headquarters, but they no longer had the backup force on hand.

    That night, Weidling reported the retreat plan to Hitler, requiring a large-scale breakout from Berlin to avoid further damage to Berlin and more casualties.  According to the plan, the garrison, which served as Hitler's guard, would break out to the west to meet up with the remnants of Army Group Vistula.  The remaining nearly forty tanks and most of the combat divisions that are still capable of combat will form the vanguard, followed closely by the "Team of the F¨¹hrer," including Hitler, staff of the Reich Chancellery, and "dignitaries."  ".  A single reinforced division will remain behind the final break.  The breakout operation was planned to be implemented on the evening of April 28.  When Weidling reported the plan, Hitler shook his head and said: "Your plan is perfect. But what's the point? I don't plan to fight guerrillas in the forest, I want to stay here and live and die with my troops."  As for you, continue your city defense mission."

    All Weidling's efforts were in vain, and the slogan "Berlin and Germany are together" painted on the wall also said it all.  <h1></h1>

    The Red Army was not only stationed in Berlin.  It had already established a provisional government to get some important institutions started to function again.  Zhukov, who is not yet aware that Beria had already planned to let the "Eradicate Group" organization be responsible for managing civilian affairs, has just appointed General Berzalin, commander of the 5th Shock Army, as the commander of Berlin.

    Marshal Suvorov of the Soviet Union advocated in the 18th century that the commander of the first unit that invaded a city should serve as the commander of the city. The Red Army continued this tradition.  Chuikov was extremely jealous of his competitors.

    Anna, a woman who didn¡¯t know what to do, actually went to Zhukov¡¯s headquarters in the Soviet Union to interview General Berzalin.  In fact, the Soviet Union was quite wary of interviews by Allied journalists, and all press releases from these reporters must be reviewed by the political department before they can be published, otherwise.  It will easily cause conflicts in international diplomacy.  In addition, in order to avoid trouble, Allied senior leaders rarely sent reporters to interview the Soviet army.

    Of course, Anna¡¯s interviews will also be closely monitored by the Soviet political department. However, Anna does not care about these surveillances because she understands that all information and press releases will be censored by the Soviet political department and the location will be selected by them.  Written according to their meaning.  But my purpose was just to leave Berlin.

    ¡°Commander of the City of Berlin,¡± Anna wrote in her notebook.  "Portly, with sly brown eyes and prematurely gray hair. Intelligent, calm and witty."

    The Soviet Union¡¯s management of Berlin only brought to power a group of people who were originally small figures in Berlin who surrendered to the Soviet armyDeputy directors became directors, and regional business leaders became important people in the country.  Of course, some speculators also came and asked for some positions in the Soviet army. For example, old German communists before the Nazis came to power also came.  They also hope to get a position.  An old house painter showed his Communist Party membership card.  He has been a party member since 1920.  But General Berzalin's officers responded indifferently, telling him to "sit down."

    When a newly elected mayor was told to organize a task force to clean the streets, he asked Admiral Berzalin: "How much will these people get paid?"

    This shocked the other Russians present.  After Soviet civilians were subjected to slave-like labor conditions in Germany, the answer to this question was obvious: nothing.  Germany, which obviously seemed to have a strong sense of rights, was completely destroyed by the Soviet army.  Because the new mayor of Berlin gave civilians no compensation, German civilians were completely indifferent according to their original habits.

    &nbsp; However, the psychology of German civilians was shocked the next day, April 27.  The Soviet army gathered two thousand German women in the southern suburbs and drove them to Tempelhof Airport to clear the runway of destroyed machinery. The Soviet aviation hoped to use the airport as a base within 24 hours.

    Let me tell you what I said to Bernard Lin: "If you are held back, you will retreat! Our own people can reason with you, but the invaders will not give you reasons. If you don't listen, they will directly kill you physically."  "

    As the German troops retreated to the "Z" area in central Berlin, the fighting between the two sides became more intense.  Whenever the Germans successfully used an anti-armor grenade to destroy a Soviet tank, the local Soviet commander always retaliated with a Katyusha rocket.  In this case, the use of such an area target attack weapon to carry out retaliatory actions is tantamount to the Germans' previous actions of killing hostages after guerrilla attacks in the Soviet Union.

    On the night of April 27, a typical farce occurred that foreshadowed the inevitable demise of the Third Reich.

    General Rittel von Greim was carried on a stretcher into the antechamber of the underground bomb shelter of the Chancellery. He came from Munich on Hitler's order to replace G?ring as commander of the Luftwaffe.

    General Grim was injured in the leg due to being hit by Soviet artillery fire. Accompanying him was his mistress Hannah Reich, a test pilot and a loyal follower of the F¨¹hrer.  While they were flying a "White Stork" aircraft through the last extremely dangerous journey, they were hit by Soviet artillery fire over Grunewald.  Hannah Reich put her arm around the injured General Grimm's shoulders and successfully landed the plane at the Brandenburg Gate.  This act required great courage and great skill, but it hardly helped.  Although the Luftwaffe no longer existed, Hitler still insisted on holding a symbolic commander-in-chief handover ceremony. Later, Greim was almost killed by Hitler because he talked to Hitler about the reasons why the Luftwaffe could not participate in the war.

    The next day, April 28, General Krebs began to imitate Nazi leaders and deceive subordinate troops.  Although he was secretive about negotiations with the allies, he still advocated that "the Americans will march 90 kilometers from the Elbe River to Berlin in the shortest possible time, and the situation will improve by then."

    At this point in the battle, the German army in Berlin desperately hopes to receive reinforcements, no matter how many people are left or what their current combat effectiveness is.

    "A company of naval personnel has arrived in Berlin and has taken up favorable ground in the garden of the Foreign Service Agency in Wilhelmstrasse," Monk told General Krukenberg with great joy.

    When General Krukenberg heard all this, he was even more confident. Other reinforcements included a small group of SS Latvian volunteers, prompting Krukenberg to declare to his staff: "My Berlin"  The defensive zone already represents the whole of Europe!¡±

    General Krukenberg¡¯s division command post near Stadtmitow Metro Station was just a subway car.  There are no lights or telephones here.  His men were able to stay afloat because they robbed a grocery store near Berlin Platz.  They still have combat effectiveness because they can obtain a large number of anti-armor grenades from the temporary arsenal of the underground bomb shelter of the Reich Chancellery.  The French SS Volunteers, who like other units lacked other weapons and ammunition, used anti-armor grenades not only for their basic anti-tank role, but also for close-in house combat.  <h1></h1>

    Persson, commander of the SS First Class Commando Squadron, came to the defense area and brought four armored personnel carriers captured from the Red Army and two vehicles equipped by the "Nordland" division that were originally used to defend the Reich Chancellery.  Half-track vehicle.  Other vehicles were blown up as they ran out of fuel or malfunctioned during the retreat from Neukallen towards Berlin.

    In Berlin¡¯s ¡°z¡± defensive zone, injured soldiers were sent to the German army¡¯s first aid station in the basement of the Adlon Hotel.  The wounded SS soldiers were sent to another ambulance station located in the basement of the Reich Chancellery. This ambulance station was equipped with SS surgeons and physicians. By the end of the battle, it was filled with nearly 500 wounded people.  Another, larger Thomas Keller Hospital for Infectious Diseases became a "slaughterhouse."

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    Not to mention the battle between the Soviet army and the German defenders, in Durham, some officers of the Soviet army visited Sister Kunigund, the abbess of the Haus Durham convent.  House Durham Abbey was now a women's clinic and orphanage, and Sister Kunigonde told the Soviet officers that no German soldiers were hiding here.

    The behavior of these Soviet officers and subordinates was impeccable. In fact, they even reminded Dean Kunigonde that a second batch of troops would come later.  Their predictions turned out to be absolutely accurate, but they had no chance of escape.  Nuns, young girls, old women, pregnant women and mothers who had just given birth were brutally raped.  One woman compared events in Durham to "medieval horrors" and others thought of the Thirty Years' War.  (To be continued.)3f; Any German soldier.

    The behavior of these Soviet officers and subordinates was impeccable. In fact, they even reminded Dean Kunigonde that a second batch of troops would come later.  Their predictions turned out to be absolutely accurate, but they had no chance of escape.  Nuns, young girls, old women, pregnant women and mothers who had just given birth were brutally raped.  One woman compared events in Durham to "medieval horrors" and others thought of the Thirty Years' War.  (To be continued.)
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