"Your Excellency the Reichmarshal, I am the sniper company of the 14th Ukrainian Panzergrenadier Division of the SS Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlitchenko."
An SS woman in her twenties, who was very sweet-looking, and whose standing posture and military appearance were almost perfect, strode up to Hersmann, snapped upright, and then saluted him in German, and announced herself in fluent German.
"What," Hersman's eyes, which had already widened, were now almost falling out.
An SS female combatant, this was enough to surprise Hersmann, and now he was stunned to hear that this Ukrainian female soldier was actually named Lyudmila Pavrychenko.
Is this really the station of the 14th SS "Ukrainian" Panzergrenadier Division, how could there be a Soviet heroine here "Reich Marshal, Private Pavlitschko distinguished himself in the battle for Lviv, fought in the line of fire for 46 days, confirmed the killing of 39 Soviet officers and soldiers, and was awarded an Iron Cross of the 1st degree."
Reinhard Heydrich, Chief Minister of Western Ukraine and Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council of Western Ukraine, was accompanied by Hersmann, whom the Reichmarshal arranged for the award of the battle heroes of the 14th Ukrainian SS Division to be presented today.
The heroine Pavlitschko is even more typical of Heydrich's hand.
Pavlitschko's 14th SS "Ukrainian" Division performed as well as the 5th SS "Viking" Division in the Battle of Warsaw, and was able to be upgraded from an infantry division to an Panzergrenadier division.
In the Battle of Lviv, the 14th SS Division also emerged a group of combat heroes, and Pavlitschko, who was "specially approved" by Heydrich, was one of them.
It is enough for this woman to kill 39 people and get the Iron Cross of the first class, but the Knight's Iron Cross is still close, but in order to set a model, it always has to be discounted.
Hersman looked at Pavlitschko again, and saw that the other man was looking at him with a look of admiration and apprehension.
So he smiled and said, "Private of the second class, you are a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party."
"Yes, I am a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party and joined the party at the National Kyiv University."
Pavlitschko actually became a Nazi, and this world really spoiled himself.
Hersmann nodded, took a knight's Iron Cross from the adjutant Stauffenberg, and hung it on the collar of the heroine Pavlitschko with his own hands.
"How about the Ukrainians" On the way back to the city of Lviv from the station of the 14th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Ukraine", Hersman asked Heydrich.
"They are all good fighters, loyal and trustworthy."
Heydrich smiled and said, "Although it is not as good as the Germans, and perhaps not as good as the volunteers of Western Europe and Northern Europe, it is much better than the Poles."
Reich Marshal, I think we should no longer consider the Ukrainian servicemen who fought in Lviv as defense forces, but as wehrmacht. ” The Wehrmacht seems to be interested, "they can fight like the Wehrmacht" In the military sector of the German Empire today, the Wehrmacht is equivalent to the militia, and the weaponry and training requirements are much worse than the Wehrmacht.
In addition, the mission of the Defense Force is to defend the homeland, and in principle, it will not go out to fight.
"Maybe it's a little worse," Heydrich smiled, "but the enthusiasm of the Ukrainians is high, they all want to regain lost ground and are willing to fight for us."
On top of that, they have mobilized and organized an army of 600,000 people, most of whom are front-line combat units, many of whom have experienced the bloody battle of Lviv. ” Although the intensity of the bloody battle in Lviv was not comparable to that of the Battle of Warsaw, it was also a large battle in which more than one million people participated, and it was indeed able to train new recruits.
"What do Admirals Busch and Hausser think?"
asked Hersmann again.
Colonel-General Ernstbusch is now the commander of the 4th Wehrmacht, not the 4th Panzer Army, while Colonel-General Paul Hausser is the commander-in-chief of the Western Ukrainian Defense Forces.
The Battle of Lviv was fought under the joint command of the two of them.
"They have the same opinion," Heydrich told Hersmann, "and they think that if we can match these Wehrmacht forces with some French artillery, assault gun units and trucks, we can reorganize them into the Wehrmacht and let them fight in the right-bank Ukraine after the decisive battle on the Belarusian side is decided." ” "Fighting in Ukraine on the right bank in the muddy season and winter," Hirschman raised an eyebrow.
There was a plan to liberate right-bank Ukraine with the Ukrainians, but in that plan the Ukrainians were not the main force, but the starters.
Now Busch and Hausser, probably recognizing the fighting power of the Ukrainians in the Battle of Lviv, wanted to let them fight the main forces, but also wanted to march in the muddy season and winter.
"The winter and mud in Ukraine can't stop the Ukrainians themselves, because they belong to this land, and everyone on this land will give their all to support their own soldiers."
The Ukrainian winter, of course, does not freeze to death Ukrainians, and the real threat of mud and cold winter is logistical transport difficulties.
But as long as the Ukrainian people on the right bank are willing to support the Wehrmacht, which is formed by the Ukrainians, the logistical supply difficulties will be greatly reduced.
Heydrich finally said confidently: "As long as we can win in Belarus and make a gesture of attacking Moscow, we can mobilize the enemy of Ukraine to the north, and then send out the Wehrmacht composed of Ukrainians, we will definitely win in right-bank Ukraine." ” If the commander of the Southwestern Front of the Soviet Red Army, Marshal Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, heard Heydrich's words, he would have scoffed.
Because he was a right-bank Ukrainian, he was born in Odessa, near Romania, but he supported the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party 10,000 percent.
He was very saddened by the desperate resistance of his ignorant countrymen in Lviv, and was fully aware of the existence of many reactionary elements among the Ukrainians on the right bank.
"Comrade Secretary, it is quite possible that the enemy will attack right-bank Ukraine in the near future, and we must be prepared that right-bank Ukraine is likely to change."
Timoshenko, who had returned to Kiev in gray, and Mikhail Alekseevich Burmyshtenko, the new political commissar of the South-Western Front and the 2nd Commissar of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party, spoke in a hoarse and low voice.
"Right-bank Ukraine, which cannot be changed, will always belong to the Soviet power."
Bulmyshtenko appeared confident.
The struggle to defend right-bank Ukraine is also of great significance to him, because he is a very young senior cadre, only 40 years old this year, as young as the first Centrogram of Belarus, Ponomarenko.
At such an age, to become the number two person in Ukraine, the future is naturally limitless.
And he is now fortunate to replace Ukraine's first Khrushchev as the military commissar of the Southwestern Front.
Khrushchev seemed to be very unlucky, originally after the Battle of Lviv, the military commissar of the Western Front was replaced, and it was Khrushchev's turn.
However, Stalin remembered at this time that he wanted to set up a general headquarters for the direction, and Marshal Voroshilov became the commander-in-chief of the north-western direction, and his partner was Zhdanov, a member of the Political Bureau.
Marshal Budyonny became the commander-in-chief of the southwestern direction, so naturally he had to have a qualified military commissar, so he transferred Khrushchev from Kiev to partner with Budyonny.
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So the military commissar of the South-Western Front "lucky" fell to the young Bulmyshtenko.
"By the way, both the Western Army and the Belarusian Front are now preparing to defend Warsaw, Brest, Minsk and Smolensk.
Are our Southwestern Front preparing to defend Kyiv?"
Timoshenko chatted with Bulmyshtenko for a few words, and suddenly the conversation changed and raised the question of preparing for the defense of Kiev.
"Defend Kyiv" Bulmyshtenko was stunned, "Comrade commander, what are you talking about, Kyiv is 500 kilometers away from Lviv, how can the enemy hit Kyiv and it is already late August, October is the muddy season, and it will be winter in November, how can Kyiv be in danger" Bulmyshtenko's words also made sense, but Timoshenko was always a little uneasy.
His Southwestern Front was now in a bad state and was demoralized after its withdrawal from Lviv.
Three more elite army groups with a large number of mechanized troops were transferred, and the strength was also weak.
Moreover, according to the order of the Supreme High Command, the main task of the Southwestern Front is to monitor the enemy in Lviv, while covering the Belarusian direction, as well as defending the border with Romania to prevent the enemy from invading Ukraine from Romania.
In other words, the Southwestern Front must use an army of less than 900,000 men to complete three very difficult tasks at the same time.
At the same time, there is a great hidden danger behind them: the current right-bank Ukraine is full of lurking anti-g-life elements, who are ready to cooperate in the event of a German invasion.
And these Ukrainian anti-gimmicks are also the reason why Bulmyshtenko is reluctant to prepare for war in Kyiv with great fanfare.
Because preparing for war in Kyiv is tantamount to admitting that the Red Army is facing defeat, which will greatly encourage the anti-gimbalists in Ukraine to actually be the masses of right-bank Ukraine who do not know the truth, and maybe there will be some uprisings or riots.
If it gets big, he, the second Ukrainian S rememberer, will also say that he will move when he moves.
In fact, the reason why he was able to become the second S of Ukraine at a young age was not particularly loved by Stalin, but because Ukraine pointed out that left-bank Ukraine was the hardest hit area of the Great Purge, and there were no high-ranking cadres of the Ukrainian ethnic group in the Ukrainian Party, and in order to maintain the signboard of national autonomy, it was the turn of young cadres like Bulmyshtenko to flourish t1706231537: