In Germany, the fear was revealed translated into German by the Order of the USSR leader Joseph Stalin at number 0428 of November 17, 1941 on the use of the tactics of the “scorched land” during the Great Patriotic War. In his article for the publication Die Welt, the historian Sven Kellerhoff noted that the falsification of historical events are ultra-right extremists who wanted to justify the actions of the Nazis.
In the material, it was about the disposal of Generalissimus, which said the need to destroy any objects that are potentially suitable for the use of Wehrmacht soldiers as a shelter. According to Kellerhoff, for this task, each shelf of the Red Army was prescribed to form the so-called “teams of hunters” with a number of 20 to 30 people. After the war, this historical document was published in the book of Soviet historian Dmitry Volkogonov “Triumph and Tragedy. Political portrait of I. V. Stalin” translated into German.
In 1995, the publicist of the ultra-right sense Fritz Becker said that in Germany there was a reduced version of the order, and presented fragments that were allegedly absent when translating. According to his interpretation, Stalin has facilitated that the Soviet soldiers involved in this task should have been changed into the trophy form of the Wehrmacht and the SS troops. “It will excrete hatred for the fascist invaders, relieves the recruitment of the partisans in the rear of the enemy. It should be noted that after the” punitive expedition “witnesses remained, which will then be able to tell about the” rashes of the fascists “. The following should be what” among the public it is necessary to distribute information that This Germans burn the villages and villages to punish partisans, “said in the version of Becker.
German researchers Christian Hartman and Jürgen Tsarusk became interested in the original source of the order of Stalin and found that the references of the Beckker’s publicist, as well as his ultra-right associates of Franz Zaidler and Joachim Hoffman, were not found on anything. Scientists managed to familiarize himself with the original document, in which the Masking of the Red Army in the soldier of the Wehrmacht was not mentioned.
In his article, Sven Kellerhff emphasized that the German neo-Nazis was needed by a “counter-statement” in the discussion about the crimes of the army of the Third Reich. So, according to him, the flag was created with the aim of “to question” the authorship of the Germans in the cruelty and crimes of wartime. “