Chapter 1722

After seeing klebsieus off and learning that Colonel duffweng and the interpreter had returned to Hitler's bunker successfully, the 8th group army of the guards stopped fighting for almost a day and started fighting again.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, trakov received a call from the 28th army headquarters. General reirov reported to trikov on the phone: "Comrade commander, the radio station of the 79th division of Jinwei received the German army's clear language call in Russian."

"What did they say?" he asked

"The Germans said that they were from the 56th tank army. They asked us to send representatives to the Potsdam bridge at 2 p.m. Berlin time to continue the negotiation. The identification mark was a white flag. They are waiting for our reply

Trekov turned to me and looked at me for advice. After only a moment's reflection, I said decisively to him, "general trakov, although our negotiations with the German command ended in failure. But there are still a lot of people in the German army who understand that they realize that there is no hope to continue fighting, so they hope to end this meaningless bloody war in a decent way. "

After I finished, trakov nodded slightly, then said to the microphone, "general Ralph, the cease-fire is limited to the area where the negotiators of both sides meet. Please tell the 56th German tank command that the life safety of the negotiators of the other side will be protected by our army at the designated time and place. "

After putting down the phone, trakov yelled at Vladimirov: "chief of staff, call commander matusov, the operational staff officer, and captain Kleiber, the interpreter. I have important tasks to give them."

After a little effort, the two officers came in from the outside. Trikov got up and walked up to them. He said to matusov solemnly, "Comrade commander, I have an important task for you to complete now."

After listening to what trakov said, matusov was surprised. He couldn't help interrupting and asked, "do you want me to command the troops to occupy the Capitol?"

"It's up to other commanders to occupy the Capitol." Trekov said with a smile, "I called you here for something else."

It was said that the task given to him by trakov was not to command the troops to occupy the Capitol building. Matusov's face was disappointed. I quickly went over and said to matusov, "Comrade commander, the task given to you by general trakov is also very arduous. As a representative of the group army headquarters, you will go to Potsdam bridge to negotiate with the representatives of the 56th German tank army and discuss with them about surrender."

"Comrade commander, I remind you to pay attention." Seeing that matusov was a little absent-minded, trikov immediately reminded him: "in the negotiations you are going to have, you should not have any other conditional negotiations except to ask them to lay down their arms immediately and surrender unconditionally to our army. Do you understand? "

"I see." Matusov finally realized what an important and glorious task trakov had given him. He quickly and straightly replied: "I will follow your order and inform them that they must immediately lay down their arms and surrender unconditionally to our army when negotiating with the German army."

I knew that such a negotiation would not end in a short time, so I said hello to trekov and went to the next room to have a rest. After less than an hour's sleep, he was woken up by someone sent by trakov.

As soon as I entered the headquarters, trikov reported to me, "Rita, Lieutenant Colonel matusov called from the 47th division headquarters of the guards, saying that they had met a representative from the 56th German tank army at Potsdam bridge. He was in charge of the negotiation as chief of staff of the 56th German tank army, who had just left this morning."

From the expression on trakov's face, I knew that the negotiation was much smoother than ours. I asked curiously, "what was the result of the negotiation? Did the Germans agree to surrender?"

"Yes, the Germans have agreed to surrender." Trikov nodded his head and said excitedly: "Colonel dufferwinger said that they were fully entrusted by the commander and major general of artillery, Wei Delin, to announce to the Soviet command the decision that general Wei Delin had made regarding the cessation of resistance and the surrender of the units of the 56th tank army. Dufvinger also showed lieutenant colonel matusov a document, which was the power of attorney given to him by general weidlin. "

After listening, I asked, "how long will it take for the Germans to begin to surrender to our army?"

"According to Colonel Duffing, they need three to four hours." "I can't forget that Goebbels once ordered to open fire on all those who tried to surrender to our army, so they planned to let the troops lay down their weapons after dark and transfer all the personnel and equipment of the troops to our army in an organized way," he told me

"General trakov, how did you reply?" As soon as he finished, I asked.

"I asked lieutenant colonel matusov to inform Colonel Duffing that their surrender had been accepted by our army." "I asked him to go back to the German command and report this to general weidlin," he replied

As soon as the surrender of the 56th tank army was negotiated, trakov received a phone call and reported to him, "Comrade commander, a delegation sent by Goebbels has arrived in our defense area and said that it is going to negotiate surrender."

When I heard this, I couldn't help feeling to myself that the tree fell and the monkeys scattered. As soon as Hitler died, the Germans began to lose their will to resist and sent representatives one after another to discuss surrender negotiations with us. This time, there were still three representatives, but they were all dressed in casual clothes. As for the soldiers with white flags who escorted them, they were blocked by our soldiers long before they entered our defense area. One of them, a middle-aged man in a grey woollen coat and a top hat, came up to us, took off his hat with his right hand, put it on his chest, bowed to trekov and me, and said respectfully in Russian: "two generals, please allow me to introduce myself. I'm heinstov, the government consultant of the German propaganda department, He was appointed by Dr. Hans Friedrich, the new propaganda minister, to negotiate with your army on surrender. " After that, he took a letter out of his pocket and came up to us. After a moment's hesitation, he handed it to trikov: "Mr. general, this is a letter from Dr. Fritch." When trakov started to read the letter, not only did I look at the contents with my head tilted, but even Vladimirov, pozharsky and weinroub were staring at the contents from behind him. The letter is written in Russian. Although there are some grammatical errors, I can still understand the meaning of the above expression: "as general Klebs told you, Hitler, the former Prime Minister of the Empire, has ascended to heaven. Dr. Goebbels is no longer here. I, as one of the survivors, ask you to put Berlin under your own protection. My name is well known, Dr. Fritch, Minister of publicity. " I expected the death of Goebbels. Otherwise, the new propaganda minister, Frisch, would not have sent new negotiators just a few hours later. Thinking of Goebbels' six innocent and lovely children, I can't help asking hynasdorf, who is still standing in front of us: "Mr. hynasdorf, I once heard general Klebs say that Goebbels' children are also in Hitler's bunker. How are they now?"“ Your excellency Heinersdorf looked at me and said respectfully, "they are all dead. They have gone with their parents, the Goebbels, following the German head of state."“ How did they die? " After reading the letter, trikov, hearing my conversation with heinstoff, couldn't help asking, "did you kill him?"“ No, no, general trakov, where do you think you are? How could it be us? " Hainasdorf quickly waved his hand and answered in a flurried way: "we are not butchers and executioners. How can we lay our hands on the innocent and lovely children? It's the wife of Goebbels. She said that the children are the children of Goebbels. She absolutely let them live and be caught by you. Then she put highly toxic drugs in the water they drank... "Animals, they are animals." When trikov heard this, he raised his leg and kicked over an empty chair beside him. He cursed: "even his own children are not let go." I took a look at the angry trakov, and then asked hynasdorf, "where are the children's bodies? Left in the bunker, or burned with the bodies of the Goebbels? "“ It's still in the bunker, of course Hainasdorf looked at me and nervously replied, "after the armistice agreement is reached, we will bury the children's bodies properly."“ Comrade commander, "just then, deputy commander duhanov came out of the communication room, went to trakov's side, and reported to him," commander of the 47th division of Jinwei, Colonel shemchenko, reported that commander of the 56th German tank army, major general of artillery weidelin, and two generals were going to cross our defense line and come to the headquarters for formal surrender negotiations. " I know that weidlin was appointed as the commander of Berlin city defense by Hitler not long ago. Seeing that trakov was still in the fire, he ordered duhanov to "general duhanov, please call back Colonel shemchenko and ask him to escort general weidlin to us personally." Just as duhanov was about to leave, I suddenly thought of another thing. I stopped him and asked, "general duhanov, did you report their surrender to Goebbels?"“ No Duhanov shook his head and said, "general weidlin said that the surrender was his own decision, which he did not report to Goebbels."