Behind each of these old photos is a piece of history, through the old photos can better show the style of history at that time, for our descendants, sometimes photos are often more powerful than words.
In 1936, German-style units reorganized from the ZY Military Academy's Instruction Corps were being reviewed.
This is the first phase of the German Mechanization Division's training unit, all weapons are equipped with the latest German style, and the latest German Army tactical training is also received.
Therefore, its combat capability is not comparable to that of ordinary troops, and it can be called the elite of the elite of the Chinese army at that time.
However, the truth of history was incomparably cruel, and in history, it has always been touted as the ace elite "German Mechanic Division" of the National Army, and people at that time imagined that a German mechanic division could match a division of the Japanese army.
In 1937, three German mechanic divisions besieged the 3,000 Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai and suffered a crushing defeat.
In 1942, a Soviet female soldier was captured by the Germans on the Battlefield of the Soviet Union, and no one knew what would happen to her next...
It is reported that Germany attacked the Soviet Union on a large scale, and successive major wars caused heavy losses to the Soviet army, and finally decided to recruit 800,000 female soldiers. But by the end of the war, the casualty rate of these 800,000 female soldiers had reached a terrifying 75%........
In 1946, after the end of the war, a freed German soldier returned to his hometown, but found that his home was long gone, and his relatives did not know the end, and he immediately covered his face and wept.
In 1940, during World War II, the German Youth League (part of the "Hitler Youth League") was being inspected by its superiors.
The "Hitler Youth League" was formed in 1922 to select young men aged 13 to 18 and girls aged 14 to 18 in the Nazi Party for training.
They made it their mission to train warriors loyal to the Third Reich, placing greater emphasis on physical and military training and neglecting academic and scientific education.
At the Youth League camps, adolescents learn the use of weapons, military tactics, physical empowerment and inculcation of anti-Semitism.
In 1978, Ted Bundy, the most famous serial killer in U.S. history, was arrested by police after two consecutive escapes.
After his arrest, he completely denied his crimes, and it was not until more than a decade later that he admitted that he had committed more than 30 murders, according to which he had committed rape and necrophilia.
For assisting the police in analyzing another serial murder case in prison before the execution, he was set as one of the character archetypes in the film "The Silence of the Lambs".
The Soviets' pre-emptive bombing of pro-German Finland in 1941 infuriated the Finns, who had been struggling. The Finns soon launched an attack on the Soviet Union, and the blood vessel in the neck of a Finnish soldier on the battlefield was cut by fragments of an exploding grenade, bleeding heavily, and although his teammates helped him stop the bleeding in time and rescue him, he died.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Dresden, Germany's second largest city, was bombed by the Soviet Union and the United States against civilian residential areas, and the women in the photo were killed despite hiding in air defense shelters.
In 1940, several German soldiers dressed up a dog as a soldier. The Germans were very fond of their own shepherds, and in their casual moments on the battlefield, they would often dress up as warriors and hold steel guns as if they were standing guard.
From 1941 to 1944, the Germans and the Soviet Union broke out the siege of LNgrad (formerly St. Petersburg), which lasted for 872 days, because the war destroyed the city's facilities, water and food, and the Soviets in the city received only 125 grams of bread per day, which is said to contain 50% wood chips.
The war was finally won by the Soviet Union, and the Germans failed to invade LNgrad, with more than two million casualties on both sides and nearly 1.5 million civilians killed by famine.
The photograph was taken in 1945, when the Soviets counterattacked Germany and occupied Berlin, and several Soviet Red Army soldiers openly flirted with German women.
A Soviet general once joked that "next year 1 million babies of Soviet descent will be born in Berlin." ”
But that wasn't exactly the case, and thousands of Red Army soldiers were shot in Germany for robbery and rape in violation of military discipline.
However, if the U.S. and British armies looted and raped, they would not be disciplined, let alone shot, according to the local church in West Germany, from 1945 to 1955, American soldiers raped more than 1.9 million German women.