The feat of Uzbek soldiers in German captivity, about which nobody knew

World war II was circling in the vortex of such masses of people that we are still a very long time we discover new characters. Feat Uzbek red army soldiers committed them in a German concentration camp Amersfoort is the next episode, which until recently was not known to anybody.

27 Sep 1941 in gates are located in the Netherlands, the German concentration camp Amersfoort was part of another convoy of prisoners from the Eastern front. One of them was 100 Uzbeks, the red army captured Smolensk.

Asians rarely massively fell into the hands of the Nazis and was their coveted prey. For example, the inhabitants of Central Asia the Germans had planned to show the superiority of the Aryan race, so he was prepared for a particularly unenviable fate. One of the residents of the small town of Amersfoort, Hank Brasseuse, later recalled:

Alex de Leeuw, one of the prisoners of Amersfoort, said that the prisoners, especially the Uzbeks were not allowed to maintain, faster to break them and to bring to the miserable state. Abuse of soldiers from this group did not stop for a minute.

They were not allowed to live in the barracks and they all fall lived under the open sky. The Uzbeks were given only half of the meagre camp rations and were constantly beaten. The Nazis call them subhuman and forbade other prisoners to approach them. When someone once managed to send the poor guy some food, it was immediately selected, and the whole camp was deprived of food for several days.

The history of the red army from Central Asia, we learned thanks to the Dutch Foundation "Soviet field of glory", or rather, its Director remko the Reyding. This man spent a lot of time interviewing the witnesses and inspecting documents in the archives, to let the world know about this case.

Remko Reyding

It turned out that among the captured soldiers were not only residents, but also Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz. But most of all it was the Uzbeks, the residents of Samarkand. This group of concentration camp prisoners was especially controlled by Goebbels himself. The Minister of propaganda of the Reich was ordered specifically to bring them to a state of extreme exhaustion, to shoot a movie about how the prisoners Asians fighting for food.

"Wild barbarians", grappled with each other for a measly leftovers, had to demonstrate to the Germans and their allies, some inferior savages live in a country where the führer has decided the power to lead the Aryan order.One day in Amersfoort crew came to which was built could hardly stand of the Soviet soldiers. In front of them on the ground threw a loaf of bread, but things did not go as planned by the Nazis. Exhausted people do not have to roll on the ground, trying to wrest from each other the bread.

Uzbeks honoured traditions of his people even in a distant country, in the face of death. The youngest of the prisoners picked up the bread from the earth, and his comrades sat in a big circle. After that, the loaf gave the oldest, which pinch off from her piece by piece and passed on to others. So the chain your tiny portion received in every circle.

Disgusting show, commissioned in Berlin did not take place and the crew angrily left the concentration camp. For prisoners of the guys from the Asian republics it was even more difficult times, as the administration of the camp took out their anger over a thwarted action. Remko Reyding learned that once the guard was beaten to death two Uzbeks for what they picked and ate near the kitchen, potato peelings, designed to feed pigs.The chief doctor of the camp, the Dutchman Nicolaes van Nieuwenhuyzen, ordered the other prisoners to cut the heads off victims and cooking them as long as they are not behind the muscle and skin. After that, two skulls of the red army began to decorate desktop monsters.

Until the spring of 1942, survived only 77 out of 101. In March they were taken to the forest near the camp, and shot. Reyding found that during the execution of the Uzbeks were holding hands and bravely staring into the eyes of his executioners — these details are told to the researcher by one of the former guards of Amersfoort.

The commandant of the concentration camp Amersfoort (Amersfoort) untersturmführer SS Karl-Peter Berg and the warden (blockfuhrer) Dutch Berend Johan Westerveld

In may 1945, the commandant of the concentration camp had burned all the documents, so learn the names of all the soldiers who committed this deed will be very difficult. Historians managed to find out only the names of the two soldiers — they were called Kadyrov the huts and Muratov Zaire. But REMCO raiding and harassment of his assistants are not sitting idly by and continue to look for ways to know each of the fallen heroes by name.