Biography Dmitry Karbysheva atypical for the Soviet military: he was a gentleman, a hereditary military.This is a prime example of someone who was in his place, and made a brilliant career thanks to his own talent, dedication, exceptional fortitude.
Childhood and adolescence
a twelve year old boy Karbyshev general, a feat which was yet to come, was left without a father.Six children raised by his mother alone.Financial difficulties were common, but the sons took the mind.
Senior, Vladimir entered the Kazan University, but was expelled: sympathetic to the revolutionaries.His fate was tragic, he died in prison very young.
Junior entered the Siberian Cadet School, and had to pay for their studies because family history did not have the privileges.However Karbyshev no shade.He studied brilliantly discovered great talent for engineering.All his future career related to military construction.
Home
military service after graduation was in Manchuria (1900).Here it and found the first of the military campaigns, which were attended by the future general Dmitry Karbyshev.This brilliant feat of the military, which often write to the relevant publications would be impossible without previous experience.
Russian-Japanese war Karbyshev met with the rank of lieutenant (received in 1903).During hostilities doing what and had the specialty: suggest crossing by building capacity, he provided a link.For valor has been awarded and received a promotion: ended the war with the rank of lieutenant.
The nature of the future general Karbysheva was uncompromising, even then hide his world, he did not consider it necessary.In 1906 he was sent into retirement: the officer talked to the soldiers of the provocative themes.
was happy to serve ...
free bread happened to be short-lived: the bosses quickly realized that trustworthy around - a dime a dozen, and experts level Karbysheva - enough to swear.One year later, Dmitry Mikhailovich returned to service, and in 1908 went to St. Petersburg, to conquer new heights: he entered the Academy of Engineering, which brilliantly graduated in three years.
In 1911 Karbyshev in the positions of captain went to Brest-Litovsk.The famous castle so fiercely resisted the Nazis in the 41 th year, it was constructed with his direct participation.
Soon the war began.I must say that the wars in the share of Dmitry Mikhailovich fell in abundance: the Russian-Japanese and Soviet-Finnish and both world.Almost each of them from the very beginning participated future general Karbyshev.A feat they accomplished then, was not the first and not the only one.During operation Przemysl, he was awarded the Order of St. Anne and promoted to colonel.
Soviet officer
When in Russia there was a revolution, Karbysheva reaction was quite predictable.Already in December 1917, did not hesitate in his own choice, he joined the Red Guard in the Red Army took part in the Civil War.His undoubted abilities have been used: Karbyshev participated in the creation of many facilities for defense purposes.
In 1920, he had served as deputy chief engineer of the Southern Front, and in 1923 - chief engineers of Armed Forces of Ukraine and Crimea.
Science also attractive to talented person: Karbyshev many years taught at the Military Academy.Frunze, wrote more than a hundred of special scientific papers on fortifications, bridges and others.
eve of the Great Patriotic War, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General (1940).In the same year he joined the party.Still, the country of the Soviets was a state sometimes paradoxical: on the one hand, many members of the Communist Party perished in Stalin's camps, including a brilliant military and general Karbyshev, a feat which has given us an example of indomitable spirit, has made a brilliant career without being a Communist official.
Participation in WWII
attack Hitler's army had caught the elderly (Dmitry Mikhailovich was born in 1880) General on the western frontier: he participated in the works for the construction of fortifications.Evacuate he did not have time: the first onslaught of the Germans stunned the Soviet troops.Crumpled Red Army retreated rapidly, leaving behind thousands of dead and wounded.Many Soviet soldiers and officers were captured.Among them was General Karbyshev.The feat indomitable Russian officers started at the beginning of August 1941 and continued for almost four years.
Germans were well aware of the rank of specialist they got.They are counting on his knowledge, experience and talent.There is evidence, according to which it is going to bring to the service of the Wehrmacht after the victory, and here such luck!But the Nazis waited for a very unpleasant surprise: a feat Karbysheva General, could not have been spectacular, but showed an impressive example of courage, fortitude and patriotism.From the cooperation he has consistently refused, it spent a lot of effort and patience, eventually it decided his fate.
Torture carrot
Karbyshev first came to the concentration camp the normal mode, which drank in full.But in 1942 he was transferred to the concentration camp Hammelburg.Conditions there were very privileged: General Karbyshev feat demanded of him not only the patient, but also resistance to temptation.Many of those who survived the horrors of Hitler's usual "health centers" were broken here, not wanting to go back to the experience.
For the "appeal to the truth," replied the colonel Karbysheva Pelit - Nazis really looking forward to it, because once they Dmitry Mikhailovich worked together.German officer carefully cultivated Red General, describing him many benefits - and other material that he will gain by betraying the motherland.Positive results followed.General Karbyshev, a feat that to this day makes respect him, refused categorically to work, and even more than that: he was sure of the victory of Soviet arms.The conviction that he generously shared with others, inspiring them completely superfluous, according to the Nazis, optimism.
decision to take up the whip
It was decided to stop using the carrot and the stick to take up - and in solitary confinement in a Berlin jail appeared Karbyshev general.The feat, which briefly fail, demanded that the Russian engineer concrete self-righteousness.
«marinated" his prisoner for almost a month, the Germans decided that this will be enough.Appearing on another interrogation, the general found in the investigator's office Raubengeymera famous professor, a prominent specialist in the field of fortification.Of course, they were familiar.For the German Karbyshev treated with great respect.
Shrew General made the last sentence, the generosity which could not fail to impress.Karbysheva offered to leave the camps and prisons in exchange for the generous content and the ability to do what he likes.Under the agreement, he had to organize a science lab for design tests.The state could collect himself required some funding received widest.For his services might be best minds and libraries of the Third Reich.
military engineer could not understand what the next sentence will follow.Nevertheless, his answer was short: by putting his military honor above life itself, abandoned enemy bounty, revealing an example of true heroism.General Karbyshev feat can be briefly outline his own words: "I am a soldier and I remain faithful to their duty."
Jokes ended
Nazis immediately put on the dreams of cooperation bold cross and Karbyshev found himself in Flossenbürg.The work was very hard, but, according to the testimony solagernikov General and then indulged in despondency.The belief in the coming victory does lack no ointment.He instilled this belief in others, as a kind of leader of the resistance.
Perhaps because of this, and perhaps for other reasons, it constantly moved from camp to camp.At the beginning of 1945, when the victory to stay a few weeks, he has been on death row prisoner camp Mauthausen.
death of the hero
their victims the Nazis are not particularly ceremony.The outcome of the war for many was already evident, had no illusions.Hitler chain dogs tried to crack down on those who are in their power.
February 18 Gestapo brought his players into the yard and began to pour ice water from the hoses.It was the dead of winter - exhausted, hungry people died one after another: someone did not stand the heart, someone just froze.For trying to dodge awarded blow to the head.Among the most persistent appeared Karbyshev General: even turned into a pillar of ice, he found the strength to support the comrades.
story is known for solagerniku General, Canadian officer Seddon de Saint-Clair.In 1946, he was in a London hospital, suddenly demanded a meeting with the representative of the Soviet repatriation mission.It was the first news of Dmitry Mikhailovich: in 1941 he was listed among the missing.
After confirming the information received feat General Karbyshev in enemy captivity has been highly appreciated by the Soviet leadership.Almost exactly five years after he was captured, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
People's memory
Every year people come to Mauthausen to commemorate the 300 thousand people who were tortured here once.On the territory there is a monument to General Karbysheva he unabashedly dominates the area with his hands folded on his chest.The figure of the hero performs only half stone - monolith column shows the ice, which was turned to the death of General Karbyshev.The feat of verses sung the famous Soviet poet, Sergei Vasiliev.In 1975, he wrote a poem called "Dignity", for which the State Prize.
in Russia in recent years have often remember the heroic past.At all levels, supported and encouraged by the desire to know and be proud of their history.Began to appear numerous articles on Dmitry Mikhailovich.Many resources on the Internet publish creations of its users, courage impressed the officer.Let some poem about the heroism of General Karbyshev naive and do not always play well with the rhyme, but they are written from the heart.
