The Soviet-German War was arguably the largest, most intense, and most deadly battlefield of World War II. There was once a hot topic about World War II, that is, why Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. It is generally believed that there are three reasons, one is that the political beliefs are different, and the second is that the victory in the early stages of World War II made the German army overconfident. The need for resources in the war forced Germany to declare war on the Soviet Union.
Before the war, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, and as soon as the treaty was signed, the Soviet Union and Germany attacked Poland almost at the same time, and after dividing up Poland, they also held a joint military parade. It is difficult to say that within 10 years stipulated in the treaty, the Soviet Union will take the initiative to attack Germany. But only a year and a half later, Germany tore up the treaty, launched the famous Barbarossa Plan, and invaded the Soviet Union in an all-out way. You know, at that time, the Soviet Union had an army of 10 million people.
Soviet female soldiers
In 1941, the Sorge group, the King of Spies, warned Moscow that Germany was preparing to attack the Soviet Union, even to the date. But Stalin did not pay much attention to this information. The result was caught off guard. The Soviet-German war was very tragic, with more than 11 million German casualties and more than 29 million Soviet troops, which still does not include civilian statistics.
In the Soviet-German war, there were also countless good stories to tell, and today I want to talk about the story of the "Maruhana Bee".
In the summer of 1942, the northern region of Smolensk, USSR, was sunny and rainy. Taking advantage of this weather, the Detan army stepped up aerial reconnaissance of the guerrillas behind enemy lines and indiscriminately bombed them. Many civilians were unfortunately killed and villages burned down. The guerrillas could only frequent the jungle and attack german transport lines. The German Military Intelligence Service also used various means to send spies to the guerrillas to collect intelligence.
One day, a woman of about 30 years old was taken to the guerrilla reconnaissance section. Deputy Section Chief Orlov looked at her and thought to himself, this woman is quite careful to dress, and looks very well figured. But why did she look uneasy? So I sat her down and said, "Please talk about your situation, and then tell me why you came here?" ”
Russia is also rich in blonde hair
The woman said her name was Korneeva and she lived in the village of Svistovich. Before the war, she said, she worked as a teacher in a village on the outskirts of Smolensk. When the Germans attacked, she fled east with the refugees. However, due to the rapid advance of the German front, all at once the fleeing people were involved, and she was trapped in the occupied area with many people. Korneeva now lives in the village of Dublo, although all documents were lost when she fled. The village chief agreed to let her stay and gave her the identity card of the village of Dublo. In the village, she usually earns some money from tailors.
Orlov found nothing illogical in Korneeva's words, but only to investigate the reasons for her move to the village of Svistovich and the purpose for which she was here now.
Kornieeva replied, "There is no secret, I came to find my husband, I haven't seen him for a long time, I miss him... I don't want a leader to bother with someone's personal affairs. Orlov asked, "Who is your husband?" She replied, "You probably know him." His name was Ivan and he was an assistant to Commander Bada. Orlov thought in amazement: "Ivan, Bada's supply assistant?" He looked at Korneeva and asked her to say something about the circumstances under which she knew the commander.
Kornieeva replied, "That was a few months ago... One day, a guerrilla group buying food arrived in the village of Dublo. It was cold and snowy, so I asked a few of them to come to my house for tea and warmth. Take the risk though. The village chief or someone in the village might report a German. Anyway, I think it would be nice to help them even a little. But Ivan came into the house alone, and that's how I got to know him. Later, he brought guerrillas to my house several times. After that, he came alone. Our relationship grew closer and closer, and we finally got married. You know, it's a guerrilla marriage. None of our friends came, but we agreed to be together forever. After that, he used to come to me at night."
During the war years, it was actually very taboo to associate with people from unknown sources
Orlov thought to himself, "A good commander... If the enemy sets up an ambush, won't he be finished? And more than once..." He asked, "What about the village chief and the police?" Are the enemies deaf and blind? Korneeva said: "They are afraid of the guerrillas, and as soon as the guerrillas appear, they hide. Orlov asked, "Haven't you ever had an accident since you met?" He asked this question not by accident, but on the basis of Korneeva's answer. It is impossible that every time the guerrillas entered the village, the police and the village chief ran out of the village. This situation cannot be repeated for a long time. They will report to the Germans.
The question disturbed Korneeva. She said, "The question is what an accident is... - Ivan and I swore to each other that there was something that would never be told to anyone." One night Ivan came alone, carrying some papers in his satchel. He stayed overnight... Late that night, the Germans woke us up. The door was blocked, and I hid Ivan in the attic, covered him with some rags, and threw the satchel into the hearth... As soon as I opened the door, a German officer slapped me and asked me where the guerrillas were. I said I was alone in the house, I didn't know what guerrillas... A soldier climbed up the attic to search, but fortunately did not find Ivan. The officer asked the interpreter to check my resident id card, and before leaving, he said that if he found that I had contact with the guerrillas, he would hang me! Orlov abruptly interrupted Korneeva: "After this, you moved to the village of Svistovich on the advice of your husband?" She replied, "Yes." He was worried about my life, afraid that the enemy would come back and take me away. Orlov asked her again why she did not join the guerrillas? She said she was afraid to be separated from Ivan. If you enter the guerrilla group, you may be assigned to other detachments.
Wehrmacht
Orlov asked Korneeva to take a break and then went to report to Brusov, the head of the reconnaissance section. The news of the marriage of a commander surprised the comrades in the Reconnaissance Section, for no one knew in advance. Brusov asked Orlov, how is this going to happen? Orlov suggested that Ivan and Korneva should be given a meeting. Brusov pondered for a moment, nodded, and said: This is a good idea, let him confront him in person and see how things develop. Why does a commander often go out at night without permission? His rescue also seems strange
After 20 minutes, Ivan came to the Reconnaissance Section. Brusov, Orlov and Korneeva were there waiting for him. Ivan had just stepped through the door and shouted, "Lyda? How are you? In this case, the scouts sensibly walked away, leaving the couple behind. But that didn't mean they paid no attention to the secret marriage of a guerrilla commander. Instead, they immediately went to the commissar of the corps. There, the commissar of the corps quickly summoned Brusov and Orlov.
After reporting korneeva and Ivan's secret marriage to the commissar in detail, Orlov raised his own question: Korneeva's house is not large, and the Germans searched so sloppily? Why was the matter of hiding the guerrillas from her so easily left behind? You know, the Germans once executed people suspected of having such a relationship on the spot. And also... Who sent them to search? Why was the house only searched and not taken for interrogation? Above all, who carried out the search: was it the German patrol, or the secret police? There are too many doubts!
Monument to guerrillas behind enemy lines
Before the war, Ivan worked in Udmurt, enlisting as a reserve officer and serving as a platoon leader at the front. Later surrounded by enemies. After the breakout, Ivan joined the guerrillas and was organized into a detachment. In one battle, the detachment suffered heavy losses, and only two people survived, one of whom was Ivan.
In January 1942, he joined the Bada Corps and was responsible for the supply of partisan supplies. Ivan seemed to be innocent of everything, and could not find any doubts other than his relationship with Korneeva. But what about Korneeva herself... Orlov and Brusov speculated that it was German agents who searched Korneeva's house. Ivan was not their target, so the Germans spared Ivan. But what was the Germans' intention? This needs to be clarified in a timely manner.
The problem could only be investigated in the village of Dublo, where there were no resident German police, so the guerrillas could easily infiltrate. It was just that the German police often entered the village, but they were afraid of being attacked by the guerrillas, and they did not dare to stay long, often under the escort of the patrol.
Russian countryside
One night, a carriage came to the door of the village chief of Dublo. The driver of the car was a German policeman. There were also two men in civilian clothes in the car, holding submachine guns. They jumped out of the carriage and went straight into the village chief's house.
One of them walked in the door and said, "I'm a cop!" Get to know, the village chief, my name is Arkhipov, this is Brin... Don't be afraid, the police department has given us the task, and we will do it ourselves. Just get us something to eat. Arkhipov took out 50 marks and placed them on the table, continuing: "As far as we know, the guerrillas often come to your village to buy goods, and they did not alarm you?" Do you know who the fiancée of one of the guerrillas was? ”
The village chief replied nervously, "You know very well everything that has happened here." There was a girl who was married to a commander of the guerrillas. Who she is, I can tell you. But how she came to be, who brought it, I can't tell you about it...
Arkhipov smiled and said, "Look at you, bring us wine." "The village chief brought wine and dried salted fish. Arkhipov and several village chiefs drank together. After three rounds of drinking, Arkhipov returned to the subject and said, "This is a good thing done in your village, chief!" Give food to the guerrillas. Still using the guerrillas as matchmakers? Don't forget, you're at the service of the Germans. ”
In addition to the Soviet resistance, the Germans were devastated by the cold winter
The village chief drunkenly said, "Don't tell anyone else, or the Germans will hang me." This spring, a captain officer came to our village with a few Germans. He could speak Russian, ask everything, whether there were any guerrilla family members in the village, who contacted them, etc. I said no. He asked me how many empty houses there were in the village and who had lived there before. After dark, he ordered me to find him the most humble farmhouse. He told me that if a woman named Korneeva came to the village in recent days, he would ask me to issue her resident permit and let her live in the house. The captain explained that the German command was concerned about Russian intellectuals, especially teachers. He also said that if I found anything suspicious about her, such as that she had links with the guerrillas, he would ask me to report it to the police immediately, or hang my whole family.
A few days later, a woman named Korneeva did come. She said she was a teacher and a refugee. I did as the German officer had commanded. Later, she got a sewing machine and became a seamstress. She's not badly popular. But soon word came out that she had links to the guerrillas. But I didn't get any evidence. ”
"One night I slipped under her window. There were no curtains hanging from the windows. I looked inside the crack and it frightened me all at once! Kornieeva sat at the table, and across from her sat the plainclothes captain who had come to my house. I thought. Who exactly is Korneeva? Said she had links with the guerrillas, but there were German officers sitting there... A few days later, I went to her house and saw a woman lying on the bed, talking to her master. I asked who was this person? She said that she had come to make custom clothes, named Victorova, a person from the village of Nasino, who left her to stay because it was already dark. ”
The village chief took a sip of wine on his neck and said, "I checked Victorova's documents, and they were similar to what Kornieeva said." Two days later, a guerrilla group suddenly came to our village. I hid in the bushes and saw Korneeva bring a commander into her house... Of course, I should have reported to the Germans but was afraid to do so. If it is reported, let the guerrillas know, they will execute me, do not report it, the Germans will hang me too, alas! Left and right, scared at both ends.
Good wine for Russians
One night, the German captain burst into my house with a few soldiers and said to me, "If you search for the partisans from Korneeva's house now, I will hang you in her house at once!" After saying that, they rushed to her house, but no one caught her. I don't know how they ended up. Later they quickly left there, apparently fearing a guerrilla ambush. But one day later, Korneeva was gone. When the village chief finished speaking, he fell headlong down on the table.
Early the next morning, the "policeman" and the "coachman", in fact, the guerrilla reconnaissance Bekov and three other people, reported to the guerrilla command the situation in the village of Dubrov. This confirmed that Korneeva was a German spy. Should we arrest her right away and find out her role in the German spy agency? After a meeting of the Reconnaissance Section to study, it was considered premature to take action against her. To further clear her accomplices, so that the net is exhausted.
One day, at the home of Korneeva's neighbor, a girl named Lyubba, a new tenant appeared, a Belarusian fugitive. The man's name was Katya, and he was a seasoned female scout in the guerrillas. Neighbors took pity on her and expressed deep sympathy for her mother's death by the Germans on her way to escape. Within a few days, Katya was mixed with Korneeva, who often went to Ryuba's house to buy bread.
Soviet female soldier
But two weeks passed, and neither Katya nor her assistant, Lyubba, had found anything that Cörnieeva had caught their attention. Koryeva rarely went out. The only thing that caught their attention was that a woman went to Korneeva's house three times in two weeks. Recently, when she returned, Liuba gave her a gift. She learned that the woman was an old woman who lived in the village of Zinovka. Two days later, Korneeva herself went to the outer village, and returned to the village of Svistovich without a long stay at the "man who made the custom clothes". Liuba investigates that a woman named Victorova lives at the old woman's house, and according to her own account, she escorted them to The Tokusatsu to escape the fascists. I'm here.
These circumstances made it entirely possible for Orlov and Brusov to conclude that Korneeva and Victorova were German spies. It's time to "close the net". Orlov speculated that there might be some "guest" at night, visiting Viktorova. So he sent Bekov and Saliyev to ambush in the vegetable garden near her house, Pavlov and Solokin hiding in a corner of the bathhouse, and Lyubba observing her house from the street.
Just after dawn, Bekov noticed that the curtains had been lifted. She identified it as a "signal". After a few minutes, Viktorova came out of the house, and she stood for a moment on the doorway steps before going back to the house. At the same time Pavlov and Sorokin saw a man walking toward the bathhouse, and before he reached the bathhouse, he turned a corner from the path toward Victoro's house. The man walked over to the house, stood close to the wall with the window, and knocked softly on the window. The curtains were lowered, and Viktorova came out of the house again and walked quietly to the edge of the house, and the man also quietly came over. Their conversation lasted 15 minutes. Then Viktorova returned to the house.
Machine gunners of the Great Patriotic War
The man intended to return the same way. When he reached the corner behind the bathhouse, Pavlov kicked him to the ground and pounced on him. The guy tried to struggle, but Sorokin's gun was already on his head. Pavlov struck him hard in the chest, knocking him to the ground without moving. They tied him up, carried him to a board cart in the bushes, and walked toward the village of Tarasovo.
Brusov and Orlov were already there waiting for them. The documents retrieved from the strange fellow were: Ferrol Schilling's Soviet citizenship card and certificate of withdrawal from military service due to illness, a piece of paper with no words sewn into his collar. They began interrogating Schilling. Xi Lin initially denied it, saying that he had a fight with his wife, and that his wife had left her and left, and now he came to reconcile with her. Orlov sneered, "Why do you have a pistol in your pocket?" To tell the truth, your accomplice has been arrested and lying is not good for you. ”
Schilling had to confess. His real name was Krasov, and he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing state property before the war. After his release from prison he was sent to the front. At the front he surrendered to the Germans and became a spy. He worked under Colonel Krummer of Smolensk, where he met Korneeva. Korneeva' real name was Stro Clara and she was a German. He also met Viktorova, who was also a spy. Krasov, Viktorova and Korneeva were all under the command of Captain Lenger of the German Secret Police. When Captain Lunger learned that a guerrilla force was active near the village of Dublo, he installed Korneeva in that village. Victorova was the liaison. Their task was to go inside the guerrillas and gather intelligence about the guerrilla regiments for the German command.
If you don't talk, Germans and Russians are actually quite difficult to distinguish, right?
On the night of Krasov's interrogation, the partisans also captured Viktorova. Her confession was exactly the same as That of Krasov, and the day after the two spies were arrested, it was Korneeva's turn. A carriage arrived at Korneeva's doorstep. The scout, Sorokin, knocked on the window and said, "Korneeva, I have come to you on the behalf of your husband. He is sick, please come to Corlevo to see him. Korneeva did not speak. The guerrillas knocked the window again.
Sorokin added, "Ivan is not lightly ill, so why not?" Korneeva said, "I'm afraid someone will take me away at night." Sorokin said, "Nothing will happen, I know the password." Kornieeva agreed to go now. Kornieeva was arrested after getting into the car. The guerrillas searched her room carefully. In an oil lamp next to the icon, chemical ink for writing information was found.
During Korneeva's interrogation, Krasov was brought in to confront her. Krasov confessed that she was clara, a German female spy, and confessed that the small pieces of paper on his body were invisible information written in her "lamp oil". Clara had to confess that she had managed to break into the guerrillas on the orders of Colonel Crommel. When the Colonel bid her farewell, he said to her, "You will fly freely between us and the enemy for the sake of the Supreme Commander and the victory of Germany like a Maruko bee..."
The stinger of the "Maruhana Bee" was thus removed, and Ivan, due to the loss of vigilance, had not cracked the spy organization in time, the commander who had died nine times on the battlefield would have been ordered to go to Huangquan.
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