At the beginning of World War II, the German army was full of momentum to crush opponents and try to occupy Moscow, but in the later stages, it declined, in exchange for the hatred and revenge of the Soviet Union, a fighting nation, so when the German army chose to surrender to the Soviet Union, why did the soldiers pretend to be mixed up and flee into the pile of civilians?
In May 1945, near the end of World War II, the arrogant German army began to usher in a major rout, the Soviet army angrily counterattacked and vowed to flatten Berlin, and finally the German army was powerless to return to heaven and chose to surrender. After that, Hitler, as the Führer, committed suicide with his lover's hatred, and many German officers and generals cut themselves off in order to be happy, especially the German propaganda minister Goebbels, after his death, his wife fed potassium cyanide to several of his children, and the whole family went to Huangquan together. It is said that hitler's next order before his death required the army to go to the Western Front to surrender to the European Allies, so the German army collapsed completely, the soldiers had no faith in fighting, countless surrendered, and the entire army lost almost all determination to resist.
Receiving the Führer's surrender order, the German military system was equivalent to abandoning the battle and choosing to concede defeat, which was not shameful in the eyes of western countries, and many people believed that German soldiers had fulfilled their duties and did not need to die for the war. Therefore, many high and low military units of the German army gave up their resistance after receiving the news of the Fuehrer's suicide, and once Hitler died, he was replaced by the commander of the navy, Dönitz, who knew that picking up a mess and continuing to resist could not turn the tide of the war, so he made a smoothwill and strengthened the matter of urging surrender.
It is said that when the German army announced its surrender, the Soviet Union was very good, and they began to lay road checkpoints, collect groups of German soldiers, collect weapons and equipment, and arrange to enter the prisoner of war camp in an orderly manner. Even if some Germans bypassed the checkpoints, there was no supply to escape, and they were easily spotted by patrols.
In addition, due to Germany's invasion of too many countries, attracting strong air raid retaliation from the other side, most of the entire city of Berlin has been blown into rubble, the houses have been destroyed, and the grain has been robbed by all walks of life, even if it is a large amount of money in exchange, no one has agreed. Therefore, this situation is simply worse for the German soldiers than to die, and it is better to surrender obediently and seek a good end.
Once the order of the superiors was made, all the resisters were equal to the rebels, so when Hitler ordered the surrender of the formation, the German army began to obey the order obediently in groups. The Germans at the forefront had no chance to escape, and usually as long as they dared to be deserters, most of them fell to a death. Even if there are German troops mixed with civilians to escape, but their size and age are very outstanding, and civilians are mostly fleeing shelters or urban villages, these places have random checkpoints on the roads, as long as deserters are inspected, most of them can not escape the inspection of the officer's eyes, so german soldiers mixed into the civilian pile is also difficult to escape.
In addition, most of the soldiers who surrendered did not have to die, and it is said that after the surrender of the German Wehrmacht on the Western Front, they were released after only thirty days of allied imprisonment, and they were sent back to their hometowns. However, the repatriated prisoners needed to meet one condition to be allowed to be released, that is, his hometown must be occupied by the Allies, otherwise the Allies would fear that they would be re-entered into the German system after their release.
For these reasons, when most of the German defense forces' homelands were captured, many of the Wehrmacht formations like the Allied forces surrendered in exchange for the freedom to return to their homelands. In contrast, the German soldiers chose to be a measure of the merits of the formation surrender, if they mixed with the civilians to escape, it was equivalent to becoming deserters, at this time not only the Allies could capture them at will, but even the German side would pursue them as deserters, and if they were caught, they would be executed according to military law, and in serious cases, they would be shot on the spot.