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This year, a World War II movie staged in Germany, "Counterfeit Captain", tells a seemingly absurd but real story, on the eve of Germany's defeat, the deserter Willie. Herold picked up a set of captain's uniforms, so this deserter who was chased by the gendarmerie was transformed into a special commissioner who was entrusted with a special mission by Hitler, and gathered a group of stragglers to swindle and kill the ring.
Willie. Herold, born in September 1925 to a family of construction workers, graduated from high school and attended a technical school specializing in chimney cleaning. After the German conquest of Europe, he joined the German Labor Corps and went to France to participate in the construction of the Atlantic Line, until September 1943, when he reached the age of 18, he was conscripted into the army as a paratrooper and went to Italy to fight, where he was promoted to corporal and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class for destroying two British tanks.
In March 1945, Herold returned to Germany with the rout of the troops, I don't know whether he was separated from the troops or deliberately escaped, anyway, he became a deserter, at that time the deserters were caught and sent to the punishment camp, so Herold's escape was not good. By chance, he found abandoned luggage in an abandoned car with a set of Luftwaffe captain's uniforms, and looking at the uniform in front of him, a bold plan flashed into his mind.
Herold put on this uniform and pretended to be an officer, gathered a few stragglers like him, and began the journey of cheating and drinking. On 11 April, a group of men arrived at the Emsland concentration camp in Lower Saxony, which was a punishment camp for deserters like him, and Herold declared that he had accepted a special mission personally assigned by the Fuehrer to take over the camp, and the commander of the camp was worried about not being able to deal with the detained deserters, so he did not verify his identity at all, and happily handed over the command to him.
Over the next 8 days, Herold, for some unknown purpose, carried out a bloody massacre of prisoners, killing more than a hundred prisoners in total, and herold was later arrested and returned to identify the scene and exhumed 195 bodies, but these dead may not have been killed by him and his accomplices.
On 19 April, the camp was attacked by Allied airstrikes, and Herold's gang fled, committing crimes along the way, hanging a German civilian who was said to be preparing to surrender to the Allies, killing five Dutchmen for espionage, and being arrested by German gendarmes as they fled to Orik. Due to the chaos on the eve of the defeat, the judge of the military court actually believed that Herold's behavior was "loyalty to the empire, helping to punish cowardice and improve morale", and Herod was secretly released.
Herold resumed his wandering journey, and in late May he was arrested by the British for theft in Wilhelmshaven. The British verified his identity and identified him as the wanted "Emsland Butcher", and it was difficult to understand how a young man under the age of 20 could become so savage and bloodthirsty, dehumanizing, and mercilessly killing his own countrymen.
In August 1946, Herold and six of his associates were sentenced to death and executed in November, and the butchers of Emsland finally paid the price for his bestiality.