On June 22, 1941, the German Army Group Center launched an offensive, and hundreds of aircraft bombarded 26 airfields of the Western Special Military District of the Soviet Red Army, destroying 738 Soviet Red Army aircraft on the same day and seizing air supremacy. In 1941 the Soviets were defeated and the Germans occupied Minsk. According to german war reports, about 324,000 Soviet Red Army troops were captured in this battle, and 3,332 tanks and 1,809 artillery pieces were captured. At the end of the battle, a heroine, Martha Blozkina, was executed by The German Nazi reactionaries. Today we will look at the heroine executed by the German Nazi reactionaries through the following set of old photos. In the photo is Martha Blozkina's tombstone.
In the photo, Martha (with a large sign on her body) and two other comrades-in-arms are standing in the street with their hands tied behind their backs. Martha Blozkina was born in 1924 to a Jewish family in Minsk, Belarus. After the German occupation of Minsk (the capital of Belarus) in July 1941, Martha, who was only 17 years old at the time, joined the resistance. She volunteered to work in the hospital as a nurse, secretly helping wounded Soviet soldiers, doing cover and evacuation work, providing ordinary people's clothes for the Soviet Red Army, and preparing some fake identification documents so that they could escape.
In the photo, Martha stares fearlessly at the German soldiers. In three months, Martha Blozkina saved the lives of hundreds of Red Army soldiers. Blozkina was ready to sacrifice at any time, and she felt that it was worth it for the country, for the people, even if she paid the price of her life.
Later, the news of Martha Blozkina's help to the Red Army was known to the Germans because of someone who reported it, and on October 14, Martha Blozkina and two male comrades of the Resistance were arrested by the Germans, and they were subsequently tortured by the Germans for several days, and even then Martha never betrayed her comrades. The Germans are showing Martha noina in a noose.
After several days of interrogation, the Germans did not get the information they wanted, so they decided to parade Martha and her comrades to the streets first to warn the Minskites, so Martha and two gay men were taken to the streets, and the Germans hung a large sign on Martha's body, and their hands were tied behind their backs. The Germans also carefully photographed the whole process of the parade. In the photo, Martha is hanging in mid-air.
After the parade, the German 707th Infantry Division decided to hold a public hanging in which Martha and her comrades were hanged in front of the Minskians. Martha and two other comrades walked calmly all the way to the gallows, and when the noose was put around Martha's neck, the German soldiers asked Martha to face the camera, but Martha turned her body around, and the German soldiers pushed her several times. It wasn't until the stool at Martha's feet was kicked away that she was turned to face the camera. After Martha's death, her second comrade-in-arms, Vladimir, is about to be hanged.
Martha wrote to her mother in prison: "What upsets me is that you are worried about me, it's okay, it's already happened, and I swear there won't be anything worse." If possible, please bring my green shirt and white socks, and I will leave in decent clothes. The Germans hang a large sign around the neck of Martha, who has already died.
After martha and two of her comrades died, their bodies were hung on gallows for public display, and the Germans did not allow their families to lay them down for burial. The Germans did this to warn the local population not to help the Red Army privately. The Germans are giving Martha's third comrade, Creel, a noose.
After the war, two soldiers who had been hanged by the Germans were posthumously hailed as heroes by the Soviets. Martha Brucekina, a 17-year-old woman who was killed at the time, was questioned for her Jewish identity. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in Martha's hometown, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, a monument was erected for Martha's deeds, and her heroic deeds were widely praised. The bodies of Martha and her two comrades are hanging from the gallows.