In many discussions about the German Wehrmacht in World War II, there is often such an argument: The German Wehrmacht is a disciplined army specially created for war. They rarely commit crimes of harassment and massacre of innocents; some even The German Wehrmacht is "the few real soldiers." So, is such an evaluation consistent with objective facts? To be sure, of course not! And if you look at the historical data of World War II, it is not difficult to find out that the crimes of the German Third Reich Wehrmacht are equally exhausted.
Crime 1: "Final Solution".
On January 20, 1942, a large number of senior Nazi officials, led by Heydrich, Hoffmann, Müller and others, gathered in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, southwest of Berlin, Germany A secret meeting was held in a villa in Wanhu District, known as the Wanhu Meeting in history. The core content discussed at the Wanhu Conference was to further implement the systematic genocide of Jews, and finally reached a documented policy called the "Final Solution". In fact, the final solution was conceived in Hitler's mind as early as a year before the meeting, and was subsequently signed and approved by the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Herman Goering.
In the Nuremberg Tribunal after the war, the court once charged Goering in the name of "signing an order to authorize Heydrich to implement the final settlement." As the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Goering obviously bears an inescapable responsibility for the massacre of Jews, and this directly confirms the crime of killing innocents by the top ranks of the German Third Reich Wehrmacht. At the same time, in addition to serving as commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Goering is also the head of the Gestapo and the commander-in-chief of the stormtrooper. This also proves to a certain extent that the Wehrmacht and the SS are the same.
Criminal Evidence 2: Foggy Night Order.
In the comments of many later generations, the then Supreme Commander of the German Army William Keitel was a pure soldier, and he himself used this to defend himself in the post-war trial. But there is conclusive evidence that this "pure soldier" has participated in planning and signing many orders against humanity.
On December 7, 1942, Keitel signed a document called the "Misty Night Order". The core content of the order is to stipulate that if local civilians are accused of guilty When resisting the accusation of the occupation authorities, except for those sentenced to death, they need to be tried, and the rest only need to be handed over to the secret police (Gestapo) to be sent to Germany.
In addition to signing a tough policy against civilians, Keitel is also unrelenting to prisoners of war: he has signed a document called "Order on Political Commissars", the key is authorization The German army can execute all captured CP officers without any trial. Including Himmler's subsequent brutal murder of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians in the Soviet Union was also carried out based on such orders authorized by Keitel. One point that needs to be emphasized here is that in the post-war trial, Keitel’s excuse for defending himself can be said to be the usual model of the German defense: they all insisted that they were just a professional soldier, and all their actions during the war were based on Obey the order of the military code.
At the same time, Keitel, like many German Wehrmacht officers, did not forget to shirk the responsibility as much as possible in the court to Hitler, who had already committed suicide by drinking bombs. He once said: "We all trust Hitler very much and stand up and bear all faults. , Accept all the shame. He gave us these orders and kept telling us that it was all his responsibility.” It is not difficult to see from Keitel’s words that they tried to put their responsibilities aside. All the reasons seemed to disappear with Hitler's death.
There is no doubt that there is still a lot of evidence to prove the crimes of the German Third Reich Wehrmacht, but as the saying goes, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked! The actions of the Air Force Commander Goering and the Army Commander Keitel alone are enough to prove that the German army was never as innocent as some people said during the war. Many people criticized the unruly crimes committed by the Soviet troops after they entered Berlin, but they did not realize that in a sense it was just a kind of reciprocal revenge for the crimes committed by the German troops in the Soviet Union.
