Although I understood Roosevelt's words, I stood still because I was nervous. It wasn't until Eleanor secured the wheelchair across from me, walked over and tugged at my sleeve, motioning for me to sit down, that I sat back in my seat.

After James and I sat down, Eleanor moved a chair and sat down next to Roosevelt's wheelchair. Seeing that everyone was seated, Roosevelt looked at me with a smile on his face, and said slowly: "Oshanina, from what you have said, I think that your approach in this matter, although a little excessive, is still excusable. ”

Hearing Roosevelt's comments on me, a smile appeared on my face, and before I could speak, I heard him continue: "However, according to the information I have received, it is known that your men, after retaking Kiev, slaughtered all the guards in the nearby Hillez concentration camp. Neither an officer nor an ordinary soldier has a single living mouth. When he said this, he restrained the smile on his face, and his tone became serious, "I think that even if these German guards mistreated the prisoners, they were acting on orders, after all, the Germans are the conquerors of the land and can decide the fate of the land." ”

As soon as Roosevelt finished speaking, I slammed up from my seat and said to the respectable American president with a serious expression: "Mr. President, do you know what these fascist bandits have done? The Hillaz concentration camp was established in June 1942, and in less than a year, more than 20,000 prisoners and Jews died in the camp. And not long after the German army occupied Kiev, they drove all the tens of thousands of Jews in the city to the nearby Babiya Valley. Organized and premeditated massacres were carried out. ”

My words made the muscles in Roosevelt's face twitch. Good half a day. He asked in a skeptical tone: "Our intelligence officers have collected similar information, but no matter how cruel the Germans are, they will not do such a cruel thing in the face of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, right?" ”

"Mr. President," I felt strongly dissatisfied with Roosevelt's skeptical attitude. So I said politely: "This is not something we have made up, but a fact that my men have learned from the documents of the captured German army." After the tragic massacre of horror in the valley of Babiya. It is said that a Deutsche Wehrmacht photographer had been to the Babia Valley and had taken a large number of photographs, and if we had had had the opportunity to seize them, we would have been able to publicize the atrocities of the Germans. ”

After listening to James's translation, Eleanor trembled with anger, and she asked Roosevelt emotionally: "Although I have not known Oshanina for a long time, I believe that what she says is true." Can you send someone to investigate the truth thoroughly? ”

Roosevelt did not speak after listening to his wife. Just turned his head to look at the bodyguard standing behind him. The bodyguard nodded, turned and walked to the door where he had just entered. He opened the door and poked his head out to whisper. But when he withdrew his head and opened the door, I saw Harold, the secretary of state who had guided me, standing in the doorway.

Seeing this person appear, Roosevelt first raised his hand at me and pressed it down, motioned for me to sit down, and then called Harold to his face, briefly explained what had just happened, and then instructed him: "Harold, can you send someone to investigate the truth of this matter as soon as possible?" ”

I thought that Harold would immediately agree to do so without hesitation when he heard Roosevelt's instructions. Unexpectedly, he stood still and did not move, and there was a look of embarrassment on his face. Seeing him like this, Roosevelt couldn't help but ask strangely: "Mr. Harold, why don't you go and carry out my orders?" ”

"Mr. President, I beg your pardon." Harold looked a little flustered and said, "I think it may be difficult for us to accomplish the mission you have entrusted us. ”

"Why?" Roosevelt asked dissatisfied.

"According to the information just received, a part of the German army has successfully broken through into the city of Kyiv after a fierce battle." Harold took one look at me and carefully reported to Roosevelt: "Because the Soviet troops in Kiev have long been surrounded by the Germans, they are seriously short of ammunition and all kinds of supplies, although they have fought stubbornly in the face of the enemy's fierce attack, and finally have to abandon most of their defensive positions because of the lack of ammunition. ”

"What, the German troops have stormed Kyiv?" When I heard Harold say this, I didn't care that I was still pretending I didn't understand English, so I got up from my seat and nervously asked, "Mr. Harold, are you telling the truth?" ”

Although I was a little out of shape, I was still in Russian when I asked Harold, so much so that when he heard my words, he waited for James to translate before he understood what was going on.

He nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, General Oshanina, according to the latest information I have received, Kyiv has indeed been broken by the German army, but the Soviet troops in the city are still resisting stubbornly. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, I then asked: "Do you know what happened to the two generals, Rybalko and Romanov?" ”

This time, he shook his head and replied: "I'm sorry, General Oshanina, my intelligence is not as detailed as you think, so we don't know what the two generals you care about. ”

Seeing my panicked expression, Eleanor got up from her seat, walked up to my side, grabbed my hand, and comforted me, saying, "Leda, don't worry. Didn't you hear Harold say that the defenders of the city were still fighting? If the resistance continues, then it means that the command system of the Soviet army has not completely fallen into the wedding, which is equivalent to saying that they are still very safe at the moment. ”

Eleanor's words made me feel much more at ease. In real history, Romanov died in 1943, while Rybalko lived peacefully until decades later. Since I have brought these two people together, perhaps their fate will change and they will be able to successfully escape from the German encirclement.

Perhaps Eleanor wanted to ease my nervousness, and deliberately found something to say to me: "Leda, I don't know how much you know about the inhumane crimes of the German fascists. While Mr. President is here today. Let's talk about it all along with it. ”

Eleanor's words. Pulled me back from my contemplation. I thought to myself, since I had already talked to Roosevelt about the Jews, I might as well tell him about the Nazi concentration camps. Thinking of this, I introduced him to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp: "Mr. President, do you know about the Auschwitz concentration camp? ”

"Auschwitz?!" When Roosevelt heard the term, he turned his head to look at Harold behind him, and then at James beside me, and asked casually, "Have you heard of this place?" ”

Harold listened to Roosevelt. He shook his head directly, indicating that he had not heard of it. But James frowned and thought for a while, and then asked me thoughtfully: "Oshanina, is this Auschwitz concentration camp you are talking about the place where the Germans held Soviet prisoners of war?" In order to make everyone more aware of this, he also translated what he said to me to several other people.

I waited for James to finish translating for everyone, and then I said solemnly: "Mr. James, you are right and you are not right. I saw him look puzzled. I then explained, "I said you're right. This is because there are indeed a lot of Soviet prisoners of war held here; Say you're not right, in addition to Soviet prisoners of war, there were tens of thousands of Jews in this camp. ”

After listening to James's translation, Roosevelt said with a solemn expression: "General Oshanina, listen to your tone, there must be many unknown secrets here, can you tell us in detail?" ”

"Yes, Mr. President." I politely agreed, and began to give a formal account of the basic information about Auschwitz: "Auschwitz is more than 300 kilometers from Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and is the general name of more than 40 concentration camps near the city of Auschwitz in southern Poland.

The camp was built in April 1940 by order of Himmler, the national leader of the Nazi SS in Nazi Germany, and consisted of three main components: Camp No. 1, which housed the first Polish and German political prisoners in June 1940. Between 13,000 and 16,000 people are usually held here, with a maximum of 20,000, including political prisoners, prisoners of war, and Jewish and Roma civilians. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in June 41, a large number of Soviet prisoners of war were sent there one after another to be imprisoned.

Concentration Camp No. 2, which was built in October 1941 and is officially known as Birkenau. Birkenau was the site of mass murder of detainees by German fascists using gas chambers.

Concentration Camp No. 3, also known as Buna, was a large enterprise in Nazi Germany responsible for the construction and production of artificial rubber and gasoline, as well as coal digging and cement production in several smaller concentration camps.

The German fascists set up special 'wards' and laboratories in the camps for 'medical experiments' with living people, as well as four gas 'baths' for mass murder, as well as corpse cellars and crematoriums. Thousands of corpses are burned here every day. The victims were mainly Jews, Tsgangs, Poles, and Soviet captives from Poland and other European countries. The brutal fascists even knocked out the gold teeth of their victims before cremating them, peeled off the skin of tattooed people to make lampshades, and cut off women's long hair to weave into carpets.?"

"Please wait, General Oshanina." When Roosevelt heard this, he interrupted my next words with a frown, and asked again in a skeptical tone: "I want to ask, where do you know all this information?" ”

"Yes, that's right, Mr. President." I certainly would not tell Roosevelt that I had seen it from the history books of later generations, but told a "white" lie that people had to believe: "During the defense of Stalingrad, I had a group of officers and men of the Eastern Battalion who had defected to me, and many of them had stayed in this concentration camp, and some of them even worked in the work of carrying, burying, and burning corpses. In addition to this, I also captured some German officers and soldiers who had served as guards in the concentration camps, and learned more detailed information from them. ”

"So where are all these people?" Roosevelt curiously asked, "If we send the staff of the International Red Cross to them, will they be able to repeat the same thing again?" ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. President." I politely declined Roosevelt's request, saying, "I don't think it can be done." ”

"Why?" My answer aroused Roosevelt's curiosity even more.

"You may have also heard of the brutality of the Battle of Stalingrad, a city where the life expectancy of ordinary soldiers was only 24 hours, and that of officers was only 72 hours. These officers and soldiers who surrendered to Cheng died heroically in the subsequent battles. After I had finished making up the fate of the officers and soldiers who surrendered, I went on to make up the imaginary fate of the prisoners and guards at Auschwitz: "As for the executioners, after they were captured by us, they were all shot. ”

"Don't have a single card?" As soon as James's translation ended, Harold, who was standing behind Roosevelt, couldn't wait to ask, "All dead?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Secretary of State." I tried my best to answer Harold with a solemn expression: "In such a cruel battlefield, not to mention ordinary officers and soldiers, even high-ranking generals will have the possibility of sacrifice." In this battle, many of our commanders at and above the division level died on the battlefield. ”

When Roosevelt and the others felt sorry, Eleanor couldn't help but ask me curiously: "Leda, I just heard you talk about 'gas bath', I don't know what it means?" Can you tell us more about that? ”

"Yes, ma'am." I politely said to Eleanor: "Because Himmler, when he visited a special investigation of a large number of Jews, saw that his men had the Jews dig mass graves for themselves and then kill them all with machine guns. He was annoyed by the fact that a few drops of the dead man's blood had been splashed on his body, and that the methods used by his men to deal with the Jews were too crude. In order to curry favor with him, his subordinates succeeded in introducing this 'gas bath' after some research. ”

"Gas Bath?!" After translating this passage for me, James interjected: "Oshanina, I can't think of how many Jews or Soviet prisoners of war could be killed with just a few bathrooms?" Isn't it a bit alarmist to say that crematoriums burn thousands of corpses every day? ”

I was not upset by James's suspicions, for what I had said was too unbelievable, so I politely said to him, "Mr. James, please listen to what I have said with peace of mind, and then evaluate whether what I have said is true or false, okay?" (To be continued.) )