Chapter 9 outbreak of world war ii

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to 1939. In the past two years, the neighboring countries of Germany suffered from a strange disease once a year in spring and autumn. It is okay to call it "aggression maniac" or "persecution maniac". I have never studied medicine, no Dare to talk nonsense.By this time, German newspapers and radio stations were reporting at length that one of Germany's neighbors in the east, west, north, and south had persecuted the Germans, provoked disputes, and made provocations.Germans were excited.The whole country is boiling.But what followed was that Germany sent troops to suppress others and occupied the neighbor's territory. They called this kind of action "resistance" and went to the neighbor's house to "resistance".German fascists have a famous saying: "A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth." This is the soul of their news policy.Even I was a little bit convinced at first, the Germans needless to say.But in the second half of the year, or the first half of the second year, a certain neighbor in Germany got sick again, and he was suffering from the same disease, so I couldn't help being suspicious.The Germans are brilliant, but politically naive as children.As usual, they were excited again, and the whole country was boiling again.As a result, yet another neighboring country was unlucky.

I have a premonition that the situation is not good, and there is a tendency of "the mountain and the rain are about to come and the wind is full of the building". As it turned out, my hunch was correct. On September 1, 1939, Poland, Germany's eastern neighbor, suffered from the strange "disease" mentioned above, and Germany was "forced" to "send troops" to "resist". It didn't take a long time for Poland's "disease" to be completely cured , the whole country was occupied by German troops.In this way one after another, the "diseases" of many neighboring countries were cured by Germany, and the land was occupied by them.After the French Maginot Line was breached and the German army occupied Paris, the "diseases" of Germany's neighbors had been completely cured by the fascists. I had a premonition that Germany would be looking for new patients again.This patient is not another country, but the Soviet Union.

As it turned out, my hunch was again unfortunately right. On June 22, 1941, when I woke up in the morning, the landlady told me that Germany and the Soviet Union had opened fire.I wrote in my diary: "This move was expected a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to be so fast." This should have been said to be a big event, but no one in Germany was nervous.The reason is probably that in recent years, such things have happened almost twice a year, and it is "common to see nothing."Of course I won't be nervous.Two days ago, I made an appointment to go on an outing with my German friends Pinks and Gross, and it happened.The whole day, we took a car and a boat, crossed the small river several times, walked dozens of kilometers in the wilderness and green forest, sang songs, played the accordion, had a picnic, had a lot of fun, and returned home happily. With all the street lights out, he groped his way home in the dark.The news of the declaration of war between Germany and the Soviet Union this morning made no impression on me or on our German friends.

When the First World War broke out, I was three years old and knew nothing.Later, I read some books on this subject, and saw the wide spread of the war, the fierce fighting between the two sides, the large number of casualties, and the heavy loss of property. I always imagined that such a big event must be earth-shattering when it started Up to the thirty-three days and down to the eighteen floors of hell, there will be shocks and fears, which is reasonable.Now, I had the privilege of being a part of the start of World War II, which was much larger, longer, and more deadly than World War I.But they never expected that this rare drama in human history would have such an unremarkable beginning.In hindsight, I feel a little disappointed and unsatisfactory.

However, the strange thing is yet to come. Now that the war has begun, no matter how indifferent people are, they always hope to hear further news: Has it advanced?Are you backing off?Is it stalemate?However there is no news. Not on the 23rd, not on the 24th, not on the 25th, not on the 26th, and still not on the 27th.On the 28th, I wrote in my diary: "The news on the Eastern Front is not certain at all. I guess that the German army may not be very successful." It implies gloating.However, after a whole week of silence, on the 29th of another Sunday, the radio was suddenly lively, and eight "special broadcasts" were broadcast in one morning; Report a major victory.The Germans, who had always been indifferent, were shocked, and they shouted "Long live" like crazy.And I was so angry that I was furious.As soon as I heard the special broadcast, my nerves became extremely tense and I trembled all over. I had no choice but to cover my ears with my hands, counting one, two, three, four, etc. to a certain level, thinking that the broadcast might be over; As soon as he let go, the loudspeaker screamed strangely.At this moment, the blood in my heart boiled, and it went straight to my mind.I need to take twice as many sleeping pills at night to barely fall asleep. On the 30th, he wrote in his diary: "If I stay here, I'm afraid I will end up in a lunatic asylum soon."

My insomnia has since entered a serious stage.