Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Werth Alexander

Author:Werth, Alexander [Werth, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510716278
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-03-13T17:00:00+00:00

The German capture of Kotelnikovo on August 2 had been so sudden that only about one-third of the population could be evacuated—and in terrible conditions at that. Many had been bombed on the railway or machine-gunned on the roads, and much of the cattle that was being evacuated to the Astrakhan steppes had also been killed in air-raids before it reached its destination. According to Comrade Terekhov, chairman of the local executive committee who had taken up his duties again the day after the town was liberated, four people were shot by the Germans for harbouring a Soviet officer; and some 300—mostly young people—had been taken away to Germany as slave labour; many more would have been taken, and the whole town would have been destroyed if the Germans had had time to do so. Some, he said, had collaborated voluntarily with the Germans, and had left with them; others, including several railwaymen, had been forcibly drafted into the polizei, and, though they had to go through “certain motions”, they had remained loyal to the Soviets. Certain cases of “excessive mateyness” with the Germans were going to be looked into…

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