The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 500

Finally, Pavlov couldn't bear it any longer. He stood up and strode across the room: "Go and see the orders of the General Staff several months ago. Those orders before the start of the war, what instructions are there?" The war is about to start? It's all about not being provoked, avoiding provoking the Germans, etc. I believed the order of the General Staff, but it was wrong! Who would have thought that the High Command would suddenly change its mind and tell us to attack Germany? How could I have imagined that so many things would happen later?"

The fat lieutenant general didn't know what to say for a while. After all, the incident happened suddenly, and Stalin suddenly ordered a surprise attack on the German Eastern Front. It was also because Britain lost too quickly and had to do so.

He paused, and then said: "But after you started the war, why didn't you withdraw your troops when the front line was unfavorable, and instead transferred the reserve team to continue the meaningless counterattack?"

Beads of sweat appeared on Pavlov's forehead. He said: "The command of the high command was to let me attack Germany, but the front line was broken by the German army. If I can't take back the lost ground with the reserve team, I will lose my head." I have to go try it!"

The fat lieutenant slapped his fat right hand on the table, his voice was raised several times, and he also addressed Pavlov as "you": "You are worried about your head, but you know how many Red Army The heads of soldiers and commanders were lost!"

"Think about General Zhukov," the fat lieutenant general sighed heavily, and said in a deep voice: "When faced with the same situation, he would rather turn his head and resist the orders of the high command, and was almost sent to Siberia because of it." .”

"But now, all of us, including me, respect the character and deeds of General Zhukov." The fat lieutenant general said indifferently.

Finally, Pavlov had nothing to say and could only lower his head.

Compared with Zhukov, who he has been suppressing and framing, Pavlov really has no face to talk about.

Another moment of silence.

"Okay, that's it for now, you wait for the notice here." The fat lieutenant general waved his hand, and took the two majors away, leaving Pavlov alone in a daze, holding a length of German cigarettes that had already burned down. .

Just two short days later, the restless Pavlov waited for Stalin's "sentence" to him - the death penalty.

Pavlov was not afraid, because he had made deep repentance for his mistakes countless times in his heart.But he continued to look at his sentence, and was suddenly shocked to find that he was sentenced to treason!

Pavlov was almost insane, he shouted: "I am not treason, I am loyal to the Soviet!"

He asked the fat lieutenant general to see Stalin.

This time was different from the situation when he framed Zhukov back then. No one framed him at all, and no one particularly spoke ill of him.Everything was judged directly by Stalin based on his own judgment.

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Grigoriev, as communications director of the Soviet Western Front.

His task was to establish a continuous and unimpeded communication between the front headquarters and the combat units.

However, because Pavlov took his command team to the headquarters of the Army Group without authorization, Grigoriev, who was in charge of conveying the command of the Front Army, could not get instructions from the Commander of the Front Army, so he did nothing and did not use radio contact. , the military operations of each combat unit are in a state of no command.

Now, from the moment Pavlov was convicted of treason, Grigoriev was also convicted.

In addition, Klimovskikh, chief of staff of the Western Front, was also convicted for going to the headquarters of the 13th Army with Pavlov, which paralyzed the headquarters of the Front Army.

Of course, from Stalin's point of view, the conviction of these two men was justified.Killing chickens to make an example to monkeys, even Pavlov, he was ready to kill, and it was useless to keep these two Pavlov's cronies.

However, when the execution order issued by Stalin himself came, the two senior officers of the Western Front were still staying in the encirclement of the German Marshal Bock's Central Army Group to command the troops to resist steadily!

"What?! The High Command wants to arrest us and hand it over to a court-martial!" When the Chief of Staff of the Western Front, to be precise, was the former Chief of Staff Klimovskikh, after being informed by two special commissioners sent from Minsk , he showed an expression of obvious disbelief.

There is a long list of senior generals who were recalled to Moscow for trial with him:

For example, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Western Front, Korobkov.

Commander of the Sixth Infantry Corps, Major General Alexeyev.

Chief of Staff of the Sixth Army, Major General Arushanyan.

Lieutenant General Ivanov, member of the People's Commissariat of National Defense of the Western Front.

Major General Kuzmin, director of the Tactical Teaching and Research Office of the Frunze Military Academy stationed in the Western Front.

And the chief of staff of the No.18 Army, Major General Leonovich.

Major General Melekov, head of the Department of Military Academy of the General Staff of the Western Front.

Major General Potatulchev, commander of the [-]th Tank Division of the Western Front

No.20 Chief of Staff of the Seventh Army, Major General Romanov.

No.30 Infantry Army Commander, Lieutenant General Selivanov

Major General Semashko, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Leningrad Front in the Western Front.

Lieutenant General Trubetskoy, Director of the Military Transportation Bureau of the Western Front.

The commander of the No.15 Infantry Division, Major General Krunikov...

All kinds of lists have been pulled together, basically including those high-level officials who were recruited or promoted by Pavlov in the Western Army.

This is not a good sign.

Although Pavlov was convicted of treason, it was kept secret from the frontline officers and soldiers for the time being.

However, Klimovsky, who was Pavlov's chief of staff, could probably guess what happened in Moscow.

With Pavlov's contacts, it shouldn't be that no news of him was sent back to the Western Front Command during the days when he was taken to Moscow.

If it wasn't for a supreme existence like the Supreme Command to block the news, Pavlov would have sent someone to send a message to the Western Front Command.

On Klimovskikh's side, they will be ready to jointly name the senior generals of the entire Western Front, and they have sent a letter to the High Command to intercede for Pavlov.

As a result, before they had time to sign a joint name, the Moscow side had already summoned them all to stand trial.

From this point of view, if you go to Moscow, you probably won't be able to return to the Western Front.

The best result is to be exiled to Siberia to freeze to death and starve to death.

If he was unlucky, he might have been shot in Moscow directly.

Even if you don't know what charges Pavlov was convicted of, Zhukov's lessons from the past are there.

At the beginning, Zhukov did not execute the offensive order to withdraw his troops, so he was convicted of treason.

And Kirponos and Pulkayev, who were with Zhukov, were not convicted together.

Today, Pavlov and his subordinates Klimovskikh and others have made much more serious mistakes than Zhukov did at the beginning.

From this point of view, it is estimated that it is at least treason, right?

If it is the crime of treason, it is basically equivalent to a direct sentence of death.

"General Klimovsky, please go to Moscow with us for trial with the people on the list as soon as possible. You, General Pavlov, have passed 2 days ahead of schedule." The special commissioner sent by Moscow, Said with a smile on the skin.

"What about the army command? We are leaving, who will continue to command the resistance of the troops in the encirclement?" Klimovsky was unwilling to return to Moscow like this, and continued to work hard to stay.

"You don't have to worry about this. Commander Timoshenko will take over the command of the Western Front, and he will bring a group of new generals from Moscow to take over." The special committee blocked Klimovskikh's words.

"Please don't waste time, come back to Moscow with us as soon as possible. You don't need to pack your things, and we will leave directly at dusk today." A member of the committee said in a tone of less than a trace of warmth.

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