Great time travel

Chapter 1, A Christmas Story During World War III ([-])

Noon, December 24, [-], Berlin, Germany

Although it has been a year and a half since the final defeat of Hitler and the complete collapse of the Nazi regime, the smoke of the Battle of Berlin has long since dissipated.But in the current urban area of ​​Berlin, there are still ruins and rubble everywhere.For at least half the block, roads, parks and squares are still buried under layers of rubble and silt.And the rest of the block is also full of scaffolding, looking like a waste of time.

Especially around the Reichstag, where the street fighting in Berlin is the most intense, as far as the eye can see, within a few square kilometers, there are empty shells of buildings, twisted beams pointing straight to the sky, and exposed steel bars on the remaining walls that have not yet collapsed. Stretched around like the remains of a crucified pterosaur.In the outline of the wall loomed the ugly shape of the chimney.There is a deadly atmosphere everywhere, and there are scattered bones that have not been buried in time...

At this time, in the bitter cold wind, a group of German aunts wrapped in coarse turbans, and some blond Germanic girls are wielding shovels and pushing carts, cleaning up the rubble-covered streets, Those crumbling dilapidated houses that survived the bombing, as well as the barricades and bunkers repaired during the city defense battle, were dismantled and knocked down one by one, and then the bricks and other building materials had to be carefully removed for reuse in the future.

Since more than 600 million German men died in the war, and most of the remaining German men stayed in prisoner-of-war camps in Siberia, and by the way helped the Soviets develop the wilderness for free, so the newly established German socialist government can only let women bear the burden. Debris clearance and urban renewal work in the capital Berlin.They are described by a term Trümmerfrauen - which roughly translates to "rubble women" or "rubble-clearing women".

No matter in which time and space, this is an awe-inspiring word in Germany. The father, brother and son of these women were all sent to the front by Hitler, and many never returned.All the homes were turned into ruins.Fear, sadness, hunger, humiliation...but they used their weak shoulders to support their broken families, as well as this ruined and devastated country, and struggled to rebuild their homes on the ruins.

You must know that what they are engaged in is not only a very hard work, but also a very dangerous job. Those dilapidated and crumbling dangerous buildings are not only in danger of collapsing and burying people at any time, but also buried under the rubble. How many unexploded bombs... From the start of the rubble clearing work in Berlin to the present, explosions and landslides have occurred every day.But German women suffering from hunger and cold have no choice at all-in this defeated country that has become a scorched earth, this is almost the only relatively stable and "legitimate" job they can find...

"...beep-beep-beep-attention everyone! Attention everyone! It's time to eat! It's time to eat!"

Listening to the foreman's whistling and shouting, Mrs. Maria Smit, who had been working for half a day, wiped the sweat from her forehead, stepped down a pile of huge rubble formed by collapsed houses, and leaned the shovel in her hand against the corner After putting it away, I took turns washing my hands with the workers under a public faucet. Then I walked outside a cooking shed where there was already a long queue, and prepared the metal worker's number plate hanging around my neck to collect food for today's lunch.

Her current job is very hard. Not only is the workload heavy, but it is almost open all year round, there is no Sunday, and she has to go to work the day before Christmas.But compared to those nightmarish days when the Nazi regime fell, Mrs. Smit already feels that her current life is not bad.

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Although the Soviets used the word "liberation" extensively in the propaganda documents describing the process of the Red Army's conquest of Nazi Germany, trying to create a glorious, great and righteous image, the Germans used to refer to the moment of Nazi Germany's demise as "zero point." ", which means that the new history of Germany begins here.

Because it is really difficult to get the German people to accept the concept of being "liberated" by the Russians.At least for countless German women, the arrival of the Russians was tantamount to a catastrophe.To put it bluntly, the Soviet Red Army that broke into Germany was really far away from being called a liberator, but not far from locusts. Wherever the sickle and hammer went, not a single blade of grass grew, or at least there were mourners everywhere.

Before the fall of Nazi Germany, Mrs. Maria Schmidt originally lived in a small town outside Berlin.She clearly remembered the scene when the Soviet army came to the door of the house: those Russians wearing long military uniforms and big leather boots, after annihilating a small number of German troops stationed on the outskirts of the city, unceremoniously rushed into the houses and snatched the jewelry and watches of the residents. .Any resistance is futile. If anyone dares to resist, the Russians will shoot and kill directly.

These Russian soldiers with lax military discipline not only robbed things recklessly, but also looked for young women everywhere. As long as they caught one, they would be dragged to an empty house for a long time, and then the **** Maria Si, who was only 29 years old. Mrs. Mitt was naturally not let go. She was dragged away by Russians breaking into the house late at night, and then forced into an empty house with a gun.Already standing there were naked young women.Then came the unbearable group rape, again and again, which lasted for a whole night, and they were not allowed to leave until dawn.

However, compared to the other German women who suffered the same fate, Mrs. Schmidt’s experience was not the worst, because they could at least drag their weak bodies home and continue to live with humiliation.And many more unfortunate German girls suffered a platoon or even a company's assault in the same night, so they changed from girls to women overnight, and from women to corpses... Many cowardly German women, Killed himself because he didn't want to fall into the hands of the Russians, or hanged himself in shame and anger after being violated.There are also teachers and students of church girls' schools who committed mass suicide in despair after being collectively assaulted.During this period, the various tragedies that occurred in Germany are simply too numerous to count and describe.

However, no one sympathizes with their tragic experience, because when the Nazi German army invaded European countries, all kinds of heinous crimes committed against women in the invaded countries will only be more and more cruel than this, but definitely not less , more civilized... When these seemingly innocent German women rejoiced for the victory of the Nazi German army before this, and enjoyed the continuous flow of spoils brought back to the country, their fathers, husbands and brothers who served in the army, It is also doing all kinds of heinous beasts to the women of the Soviet Union, France, and Poland.Now that the situation is reversed, the revengeful Soviet Red Army marched into Germany, and it was the turn of these German women to be humiliated and even slaughtered by the Communist Party, and it was only right to pay off the debts of their fathers, husbands and brothers who burned, killed and looted on the battlefield— —Since it is a defeated country, it should obediently accept its fate and kneel down to enjoy the treatment that a defeated country deserves.

In fact, compared to what happened to Nazi Germany in another time and space after the defeat, the situation of the Germans in this time and space is already much better—because the Soviet Union in this world received the full support of Miss Sophie, the ship's mother, in At the beginning of the Soviet-German War, there was no collapse. The German army only occupied some border cities, and they couldn't move as far as Minsk.After that, the main battlefields of the two sides were placed in Poland and southeastern Europe. As far as the Soviet Union was concerned, the war damage suffered was not serious. Naturally, there was not much blood feud with the Germans, and the desire for revenge was relatively weak.

Due to the negligible damage to domestic productivity caused by the war, and the addition of the ship's black technology, the material supply of the Soviet army has also become more abundant.Except for the chaotic period at the beginning, after the occupation stabilized, although the Russian soldiers still couldn't control their lower body, they still frequently had improper relationships with German women, but finally they did not rely entirely on violence and coercion, but took Cigarettes, canned food, biscuits and candies were traded with them - in this age when everyone was starving and freezing, according to the "market" in big German cities at that time, Soviet soldiers usually only needed to take out a piece of bread and they could talk to a A purebred Aryan girl with blond hair and blue eyes has sex once, there is really no need to be too stingy and look like she is cheap.

Moreover, it is also due to Miss Jianniang's ability to build a factory out of thin air, coupled with the various future world scientific and technological achievements obtained from Wang Qiu, the Kremlin now does not care much about those old machines in Germany. It's eye-catching, it's not like after the victory of World War II in another time and space, as soon as it broke into Nazi Germany, it dismantled the machines as war compensation. Driving in and moving, it is even more powerful than locusts, it seems that you can't wait to tear Germany down into an agricultural country...

However, although the Soviets, who have opened up time and space, no longer look down on the machines of Nazi Germany, the engineers and skilled workers of Nazi Germany are still very valuable in their eyes-the education of the Soviets these days The level is still not comparable to that of the Cold War era when everyone knew calculus. Most ordinary Soviet citizens have an education level from elementary school to junior high school.No matter how many factories, mines, and oil fields are built by various unscientific means, if there are no knowledgeable people to operate them, they can still only be rusted: therefore, in such an extreme shortage of labor force, from After the defeat, Germany and Austria plundered high-quality human resources, which became the inevitable choice of the Kremlin.

Therefore, after the collapse of the Nazi German regime, the Soviets not only continued to detain millions of German prisoners of war, but also allowed them to continue to work in Central Asia and Siberia for free.They even took advantage of the anarchy in the early days of the occupation to forcefully recruit a large number of young and middle-aged laborers from Germany, and even evacuated the entire factory. The "unmanned factory" went to work.

As a result, when the socialist regime in Germany was formally established in the spring of [-], these new German rulers discovered to their horror that if the millions of German prisoners of war and young men who were toiling in the Siberian labor camps were not included, , At present, the ratio of male to female of the childbearing age population in Germany has reached one to four!I am afraid that the only way for a German man to marry four wives to maintain balance is to practice polygamy like the Arabs...

Under such circumstances, even if those factories in Germany are still there, they still cannot operate because of lack of human resources, and it is naturally impossible to resume production.Even clearing the ruins and rebuilding railroads, roads, and city buildings after the war was hampered by a dire labor shortage.

Moreover, post-war Germany in this time and space has a much larger land area than Germany in another world-in view of the lessons of later history, the Kremlin believes that it is really unnecessary to increase the popularity of Poland, a hardcore rebellious boy. land.Therefore, after the fall of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union only restored the new territory of Germany to the state before the outbreak of World War II. Of course, Alsace, North Schleswig, and Danzig, which were lost after the end of World War I, would not come back. However, at any rate, East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia were not cut off.

It is certainly a good thing that the territory of Germany has not been further reduced, but these retained lands were the places that were most severely damaged during the war. When encountering guerrilla warfare, they will not hesitate to kill, round up and shoot all the men in the entire village and town, then drive the women and children into the church, and then burn them with the church.As a result, after the war, according to the descriptions of war reporters, when walking on this land, the only people who could be seen were old-fashioned Soviet Red Army soldiers.The countryside has been barren, the granary has been emptied, there are no cattle, horses, or poultry in the field, no birds are heard, and no wild animals can be seen, it is lifeless.Except for the occasional Soviet soldier who passed by, there was almost no living thing to be seen on this land.

It is conceivable that in the face of so many dilapidated lands that were completely deserted and uninhabited during the war, and even buried with an unknown number of mines and unexploded bombs, the workload of rebuilding must be astonishing.However, there are only old, weak, women and children left in Germany today. How can they do so much work?
Looking at such a predicament where there is devastation everywhere, a lot of waste is waiting to be done, but there is no one available, the new red government of Germany will naturally complain and reach out to the big brother of the Soviet Union, saying that even German women can't find a husband.But Stalin, who had always been kind and dark, refused to let people go. Instead, he taught German comrades to learn to think in reverse. After the war, there were more women than men in Germany, and the remaining German men were all opening up wasteland in Siberia, right?It doesn't matter, send the extra German women along!It's good to reunite them, isn't it?The Soviet Union can definitely afford it!There are never too many people in Siberia!

Faced with such a brazen big brother, the German authorities can only admit that they are unlucky. Apart from allowing those abandoned towns and villages to grow and turn into wilderness, the only way to fully mobilize women is to let these strong women who have suffered from the scourge of war , undertake the difficult task of rebuilding the country...

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For post-war Germany in this time and space, in addition to the extreme shortage of labor force and the extreme imbalance in the sex ratio between men and women, there is also a very serious unfavorable factor, that is, peace did not come with the collapse of the Nazi regime, but ended World War II. Immediately afterward, World War III broke out, which greatly delayed the reconstruction process of Germany. Mrs. Maria Smit’s house in the outskirts of Berlin was very lucky to survive the terrible years of World War II, but in Half a year after the fall of Nazi Germany, unfortunately, she was completely burned up by the incendiary bombs thrown by British bombers... So, homeless, she had to bring her two sons to Berlin, live in a simple shed, and rely on government organizations to earn a living from debris removal projects.

Such a day is naturally very tiring and hard, but it is still stable, allowing her and her two sons to barely survive.Moreover, with the passage of time, the treatment of these "debris women" who participated in the rubble cleaning and urban reconstruction work has gradually improved in all aspects.

——At the beginning, they dragged their weak bodies and worked hard all day, but they could only get a free lunch—usually only black bread, salt and hot water, and a few potatoes to cover their wages, so that Smit The wife's two sons also had to catch mice and dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.Later, it gradually increased to provide two free meals a day, plus food packages that can be taken home, which can barely feed the whole family.Now salaries have been paid, and the rationing system has been restored. You can go to the state-owned store to buy things with the rationing card, and the dishes and quality of working meals have also improved a lot.

It seems that because today is Christmas Eve, the free lunch provided by the government is also extraordinarily rich.Not only was the staple food upgraded from black bread to white bread, salted fish was added to the potato soup, and each "rubble woman" also got two small sausages as an extra meal.For this extravagant extra meal, Mrs. Smit was reluctant to eat it at all, but carefully wrapped the sausage in oiled paper, and prepared to take it home for her children to taste.

After lunch, the foreman announced another piece of good news: In order to celebrate Christmas, the government granted these "debris women" temporary leave for one and a half days, and the whole city will stop working from this afternoon to tomorrow.At the same time, each person is also allocated an extra kilogram of sugar as a Christmas gift from the country to thank the working women. They were overjoyed.

So, with a rare happy mood, Mrs. Smit braved the cold winter wind and left the ruins of the Capitol and walked to her residence.

Although Hitler's Nazi German regime had perished last year, the urban area of ​​Berlin at this time still saw the tragic traces of various wars and burnings everywhere. There were ruins and scars everywhere. It was difficult to find a house without bullet holes houses.Among the rubble and ruins, you can occasionally see some disabled soldiers who have lost the ability to work, and some of them still have medals hanging on their chests.But at this moment, they were all wrapped in thin clothes, sitting numbly on the ground, looking at everything with dull eyes, without the slightest energy, as if they had lost their souls.The passers-by walked in a hurry, paying no attention to these dying beggars—in this era when everyone was starving and freezing, people's hearts seemed to be frozen, and sympathy and compassion became extremely rare.

Near the crumbling dilapidated buildings, there are many shacks built from construction waste. These are the temporary shelters for the homeless who lost their homes in the war until new buildings are built.Everywhere is full of dilapidated, dirty and destitute atmosphere, only a few playing children add a bit of lively color to the shack in the ruins, at least making it look alive.

——At present, although the population of Germany has decreased by a quarter to a third compared with the pre-war period, much more houses have been destroyed than this ratio, so that there is a severe housing gap.Survivors of these wars had to live a difficult life in their destroyed homes, dwelling in cellars, ruins, caves and sewers, completely deprived of running water, gas, electricity and other minimum public services in modern cities, and could only go from Looking for wood in the ruins for heating and cooking, drawing water from wells and rivers, and then drinking unclean water, thousands of people contracted dysentery... Not only in Germany, but millions of people all over Europe Such a miserable person.They live a medieval life among the broken machines of the twentieth century.

However, even in such a harsh environment, people in Berlin still rack their brains and do everything possible to create a little festive atmosphere.They made Christmas trees out of green waste paper and steel bars, washed empty cans and pieces of broken glass brightly, and hung them as Christmas gifts.Everyone put on the few good clothes they had and tried to put a smile on their faces.

In order to spend this Christmas well, the new German government has also made its best efforts.Although the concert halls, cinemas and theaters in Berlin are still in ruins, the government still managed to borrow equipment from the Soviet Red Army and set up a few open-air film teams to provide citizens with a little bit of entertainment during festivals .Then a few more bands got together and got ready to play carols when the Christmas bells struck.

The residence of Mrs. Smit's family of three in Berlin is naturally also a simple shack. Two sides of the shed lean against the remnant wall of a shop, and the remaining two sides are built with bricks that Mrs. Smit picked out piece by piece from the ruins. The roof was made of linoleum, battered planks and tin.Since no windows were opened, the light in the shack was very dark and the smell was not pleasant.She and her two sons try to stay out as much as possible, unless it's bedtime, it's raining, or it's too cold.

When Mrs. Smit returned to the door of her shack against the cold winter wind with two small sausages in an oiled paper bag and a newly received one kilogram of sugar, she found her two sons, ten-year-old Simon and Eight-year-old Justin is beckoning to her mysteriously:
"...Mom...Mom...a letter from Dad arrived today!"

"...What? Your father sent a letter from a prisoner-of-war camp? Where is it? Where is it? Show me quickly!" Mrs. Smit's face was filled with surprise.

"... Nuo, here is the letter." Simon first carefully took out a letter from his arms, handed it to his mother, and then dragged his mother into the shack, while sticking to his mother's ear, with the softest voice Said, "...Mom, Dad also sent a mail package, which is full of delicious things! We didn't dare to show it to anyone, and we hid it in the blanket as soon as we received it..."

Hearing that her husband, who was captured by the Russians and taken to Siberia because he joined the German navy, was able to mail food from the prisoner-of-war camp, Mrs. Smit couldn't help but feel a little confused, but she checked the mail bag and found that there were two Canned fish, a pack of dried mango, a pack of dried coconut and a box of chocolate candies.Then, she opened the envelope again, and a photo fell out. On it was her husband, Lucas, wearing a somewhat sloppy sailor suit, standing by the railing of the ship's side, with a cigarette in his mouth, and behind him It is a tropical island full of coconut trees...

Seeing this photo, Mrs. Smit seemed to have guessed something, so she quickly pulled out the letter paper, went outside and began to read:

"...Dear Maria:
Haven't written to you for over four months, how are you and the kids doing in Berlin?You must have suffered a lot these days!Let me tell you the good news, I have been released from the Siberian prisoner-of-war camp!Because I used to be the chief mate on a destroyer, the Soviets asked me to take a group of companions to the South Pacific to open a merchant ship, enjoy the treatment and salary of a captain in the Soviet Red Navy, and have additional allowances when going to sea, which is a rare job. .

By the way, according to the Soviets, you in Berlin can also enjoy special food rations according to the treatment of the families of Red Army soldiers.So if you have time, please ask the relevant department to find out what the specific procedures are, and whether you need me to send the proof materials.

The food and living conditions in the South Pacific are very good, and the work is relatively easy. The scenery along the route is even more intoxicatingly beautiful. There are fine white sandy beaches, beautiful coconut trees, and colorful coral reefs everywhere. , and a variety of sweet tropical fruits, many of which I have never tasted.In the mail is a little ration I saved for you and the kids to try.After the first month's salary is paid, I will try my best to send the money back to you.Please take care of yourself, take care of your children, and look forward to the day when we will be reunited as a family again.

—Lucas who will always love you..."

Seeing this, Mrs. Smit couldn't help pressing the letter paper tightly to her chest, trying not to let the tears of joy flow out of her eyes.But her youngest son, Justin, was still curiously reaching for the lower corner of his mother's clothes, "...Mom! Mom! What did the letter say? How is Dad?"

"...your father...he is no longer in a prison camp in Siberia, he is sailing in the South Pacific!" Mrs. Smit choked up.

"...South Pacific? Where is this place? Is Dad doing well there?" Justin asked, biting his finger, without knowing why.

"...the South Pacific... is far, far away, farther than Siberia, and hotter than Siberia. Your father has a good life there... at least better than in the Siberian prisoner-of-war camp! And Our days will be better!"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Smit suddenly opened her arms and held her two sons tightly in her arms, with tears of joy all over her face, "...God bless...our family has survived the war It's got to be a celebration! Mommy's cooking you a Christmas dinner today!"

——However, when the Germans gradually came out of the disastrous years of war and death, and struggled to rebuild their homes in the ruins, another great country at the western end of Europe was in chaos, hunger, violence and blood, and it was unstoppable. Falling into the dark age of primitive wildness...