Chapter 704: The French Citizen Who Was Sensational

While Lieutenant General von Shaw Tepitz was chatting with his henchmen, Chen Yanlong was also in his special train to give orders to the prisoner of war camp where the French officers and soldiers were being held.

The order was that as long as these French officers and soldiers were willing to fight on the Eastern Front, then each French soldier could immediately be given freedom and a certain amount of bonus as long as he killed five Soviet officers and soldiers, so that they could return to their home countries and live an ordinary life.

Of course, these French troops who arrived on the Eastern Front to fight could also fight in teams, and as long as their troops killed a certain number of Soviet troops, they could also immediately get freedom and a certain amount of bonuses.

Of course, as for the brutal torture of a large number of prisoners like the original Hitler, Chen Yanlong also reduced it, and dealt with it in accordance with the methods of dealing with prisoners of war according to the Geneva Conventions, such as allowing prisoners of war to obtain basic living conditions such as food, lodging, and clothing in the prisoner camps.

Even for those who behaved well, French officers and soldiers were allowed to correspond and meet with their families, and the Red Cross was given regular visits to the camps and medical treatment for those who were sick.

Although Chen Yanlong knew that in the original history, when the German army was defeated by the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union, many of the German officers and soldiers captured by them were tortured to death, and they were tortured to death by the American army and the Soviet army; Moreover, the methods of torture and killing they used were not inferior to those used by the Germans to kill the Jews.

Canadian writer James Buckche once pointed out in his book "Planned Death" that in the prisoner of war camps of the American army, Americans used to treat German prisoners of war as cruelly as the Nazis, and nearly one million prisoners of war of the German armed forces were dirty, emaciated, emaciated, and sick by the American army...... In the end, these German prisoners died of sickness and starvation from diseases such as dysentery, typhoid, gangrene, and pneumonia.

Of course, the Soviet army's prisoner camp is not much better, and it can be compared with the American army's.

Even when they invaded the German mainland, the officers and soldiers of the United States and the Soviet Union unscrupulously raped and killed a large number of German women, even children, women, and the elderly.

It can be said that whether it is the German army, or the great powers of Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union, they all have a hated dark side, and from the fact that these great powers carried out the Eight-Nation Alliance in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to capture the Chinese Emperor and kill the Chinese people, and other colonies, we can get a glimpse of the character of these great powers.

And now the reason why Chen Yanlong wants to treat these French prisoners preferentially, in addition to hoping that these French can go to the front line to fight and kill the Soviet army, he also needs to reorganize some of the military discipline that the German army has been corrupted, and absolutely cannot let the German army he now command become a gradually degenerate army.

What he wants is a military force with strict military discipline, strong combat effectiveness, and military justice, not an army like the Japanese army that burns, kills, loots, and does all kinds of evil.

Because the final fate of such an army is that the people of the occupied areas will hate and take revenge, and finally destroy the army.

Power will never be able to really rule a country for a long time, as long as the country that has won the hearts and minds of the people can establish a relatively long rule, and there is no too fierce resistance.

However, during World War II, the surrendered French prisoners of war were either handed over to the Vichy government headed by Petain or incorporated into the German SS to fight the Soviet Union, although most of the deserters were shot.

When Chen Yanlong's telegram was received by officers in the POW camps in Poland and Germany, they were also shocked.

Although there were not as many French prisoners at this moment as there were Jews and Soviet soldiers, a small number still existed.

So these German officers also went to convey Chen Yanlong's thoughts to those French prisoners.

As for what the final choice of these French prisoners was, it was not their concern.

In this regard, some of the French prisoners who had been tortured by the Germans in the prisoner of war camp were brightly eyed, while others would rather die than give in.

But just as these remaining French captives were expressing their thoughts, in the great streets of Paris, France; For many hungry civilians who have received too little subsistence and food, something that makes their blood boil is happening, and it makes the French civilians in these occupied territories feel like they are in a dream, not real at all.

Because under Chen Yanlong's orders, many German officers and soldiers are setting up food relief points to distribute relief food and daily necessities to those French civilians.

So many malnourished and hungry French women and children also rushed out of their homes to queue up to receive food and supplies.

Chen Yanlong's purpose in doing this was to make Petain willing to send French troops to participate in the war against the Soviet Union.

Therefore, Chen Yanlong is trying to win over the hearts of the citizens of France and the common people to achieve his goal.

Of course, if he fails in this way, then he will think of another way.