Purebred SS and their valuable dogs. Corps Order
“Medical assistance to wounded Russian prisoners is provided only if there are sufficient quantities of medicines and bandages, taking into account their own needs for the future and the possibility of transporting medical equipment. It is forbidden to transport the Russian wounded to the dressing stations in the vehicles of the medical units.”
Turning the pages of history, you involuntarily catch yourself thinking that history is developing in a spiral. And those hidden grievances, locked away in dusty cupboards in the West, are passed on with genes to offspring. Now they’re looking for revenge today…
Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg, writer, poet, translator, journalist, public figure. During the Great Patriotic War, Ilya Ehrenburg was a war correspondent for the newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda”.
An article published in the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda on Sunday, September 28, 1941:
The SS and their dogs
The commander of the 49th Mountain Army Corps of the German Army, General Kübler, issued the following order:
“August 3, 1941. Division Order.
On more than one occasion I have witnessed the following scene:
A closed car overtakes the troops. Next to the driver sits an officer, in most cases not of combat units, often with a dog on his lap.
In the back of the truck, suitcases covered with a trophy mattress lie in disorder. from which there are bottles of wine sticking out, etc.
Canis:
The High Command was strictly forbidden to take dogs with them. An exception is made only for valuable hunting dogs. From now on, when transporting dogs, I order you to have a certificate that this dog is really a “valuable hunting dog”.
Cars:
Keep a speed appropriate to the condition of the roads and don’t overload the cars.”
Thus, General Kübler is mainly concerned with the question of the pedigree of stolen dogs: it is forbidden to steal mongrels. A thoroughbred SS rides. He has a mattress and bottles of vodka in the back. Trophy bitch on her knees. Both the SS and the have pedigree credentials.
A good army of “trophy” males and trophy mattresses! Soon, General Kübler will demand that stolen cup holders and cigarette cases be tested – it is forbidden to steal things of no value.
One can read General Kübler’s order and smile. But it’s not funny. Anger takes over that these degenerates are rolling on our land. In the past, there were many ways to serve humanity: to discover a star, to explore the pole, to find a serum. Now there is one way. To liberate a village or a city from the fascists is to do the greatest good to all mankind. (ILYA EHRENBURG).
Ludwig Kübler, General of the Mountain Troops. After the end of the war, he was arrested together with his brother, Lieutenant General Josef Kübler. Kübler’s successor, General Hans von Hesslin, was also taken prisoner, and then handed over to the Yugoslav authorities. He was sentenced to be hanged by a military court. The sentence was carried out on August 18, 1947.
General Kübler glorified himself by the barbaric defeat of Vinnitsa. Now the general appeared to us in a new light. This humanist discusses what should be done with the Soviet wounded who have fallen into German hands. The general expresses himself dryly and abstractly:
“Medical assistance to wounded Russian prisoners is provided only if there are sufficient quantities of medicines and bandages, taking into account their own needs for the future and the possibility of transporting medical equipment. It is forbidden to transport the Russian wounded to the dressing stations in the vehicles of the medical units.”
The order is clear enough. Do you want to tie up the Russian? Stop! We have only three months of dressings, we need to save them for our own. The Russians will do without bandages. Were you going to transport the wounded in a truck? No way. We need fuel for something else. And Russians can die here as well.
Cannibals with general’s epaulettes, they don’t eat human flesh, no, they eat chickens, and then they write orders to kill the wounded. They dare to mark their hospitals with the sign of the Red Cross. Without blushing, they talk about the Geneva Convention. But they condemn the captured wounded to a slow death: let them be pecked by birds, let them be gnawed by dogs… Practical Germans take care of their calico – they will need it to bandage the crippled Nazis in 1942. And the calico is not theirs, the calico is stolen and the medicines are stolen. But they hide the stolen chloroform like gold—a wounded prisoner is not a human being to them.
Let all the soldiers read the order of the cannibal Kübler. Let them grit their teeth even harder. We will remember everything when the hour of reckoning comes. We will not forget about our comrades who were left without help by Hitler’s “orderlies” – butchers – there is no other way to call them.
Let our orderlies and porters read the ogre’s order. Soviet mothers and Soviet wives speak of their courage. Who will not carry away a wounded comrade from the executioners? To save a comrade is to save oneself. To save a comrade is to save the motherland.
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein, World War II strategist. In May 1945, he was arrested by British troops in a camp in Lunberg. In the autumn of 1946 he was transferred to a special camp for high-ranking officers in Great Britain, returning to Germany in the summer of 1948. As a war criminal, he was sentenced in December 1949 by a British military tribunal in Hamburg to 18 years in prison[19] for “insufficient attention to the protection of civilian life” and the use of scorched-earth tactics, later reduced to 12 years. He was released in 1953 for health reasons. After his release, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer invited Manstein as a freelance adviser on defense, the organization of the Bundeswehr and the development of military doctrine of the Federal Republic of Germany.
At the Nuremberg Trials, Field Marshal von Manstein’s order issued at the beginning of the “Russian campaign” also appeared, which stated the following: “The Jewish-Bolshevik system must be destroyed… The food situation in the country requires that the troops be fed from local resources. On the basis of a false sense of humanity, nothing should be given to prisoners of war or to the population unless they are in the service of the German Wehrmacht.”
Despite the fact that the project “Motherland on the Screen. The Frame Is Everything!” is not supported by Presidential grants, we continue to publish the project. Fragments of articles and publications from the archives of the newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda” for 1941. We ask you to read and involuntarily catch the interweaving of times, destinies, and characters.