June 22, 1941 for the majority of people started as a normal day.They did not know that soon it will not be happy, and the children who were born or will be born from 1928 to 1945, stolen childhood.Suffered in the war children no less than adults.The Great Patriotic War forever changed their lives.
Children at War.Children who have forgotten how to cry
In war children have forgotten how to cry.When they got to the Nazis, then quickly realize that you can not cry, or get shot.They are called "children of war" not because of their date of birth.The war has brought them.They had seen the real horror.For example, often the Nazis shot the children just for fun.They did it just to see how they flee in terror.
able and choose to live a target to work out in accuracy.The children can not work hard in the camp, so they can kill with impunity.So thought the Nazis.However, sometimes in concentration camps it was the work of children.For example, they often have been blood donors for the soldiers of the army of the Third Reich ... Or they could make to remove the ashes from the crematorium and sew it into bags, then to fertilize the land.
Children who were not wanted
can not believe that work in the camp were leaving voluntarily.This "good will" embodied the barrel of the machine in the back.Suitable and unsuitable for fascists "sorted" very cynical.If the child reached for a mark on the wall of the barracks, he was fit to work, serve as a "Greater Germany."I do not hold - were sent to the gas chamber.The kids did not need the Third Reich, so the fate they had only one.However, the home and not all waiting for good fortune.Too many children in the Great Patriotic War lost all their relatives.That is, in the homeland waiting for them only half-starved children's home and a youth during the post-war devastation.
Children brought labor and valor of this
Many children already at age 12 got up to machines in factories, worked in construction as adults.Because is not a child's hard work, they soon grew up and replaced with their brothers and sisters dead parents.It is the children in the war of 1941-1945.helped to keep afloat, and then restore the economy of the country.It is said that in war there are no children.This is actually the case.In war they worked and fought alongside adults, both in the army and the rear, and in partisan detachments.
was common that many young people added themselves a year or two, and went to the front.Many of them gave their lives were going to stay after live ammunition, machine guns, grenades, rifles and other weapons, and then handed them over to the partisans.Many were engaged in guerrilla intelligence, working in cohesive detachments of people's avengers.They helped our underground workers to organize shoots prisoners of war, rescuing the wounded, burned the German warehouses with arms and food.Interestingly, in a war fought not only boys.Girls did it with no less heroism.Especially a lot of these girls were in Belarus ... The courage, the fortitude of these children, the ability to sacrifice for the sake of just one goal, made a great contribution to the common Victory.All this is true, but these children were killed tens of thousands ... officially in our country in this war killed 27 million people.Soldiers of them - only 10 million.The others - civilians, mostly women and children.The children who died in the war ... Their number is impossible to calculate precisely.
kids who really wanted to help the front
From the first days of the war the children wanted to help in all possible ways for adults.They built fortifications, collected scrap metal and medicinal plants, have participated in the collection of items for the military.As already mentioned, the children worked in factories for days instead of the fathers and older brothers who had gone to the front.They collected masks, made smoke bombs, fuses for mines, fuses for hand grenades.In school workshops, which before the war, the girls were working classes, they now sew underwear and shirt for the army.Knit and warm clothes - socks, mittens, sewn pouches for tobacco.Children and helped the wounded in hospitals.They also wrote a couple of letters for their family and even put concerts and performances that bring a smile adult men, exhausted by the war.Feats are committed not only in combat.All of the above - it is also the exploits of children in war.But hunger, cold and disease in the two bills dealt with their lives, who have not yet had time to really start ....
Sons Regiment
Very often in war, as adults, adolescents 13-15 years of fighting.It was not something very much awesome, t. To. In the Russian army for a long time served as the sons of the regiment.Most often, it was the young drummer or Jung.In World War II it was usually children who lost their parents, killed or deported to German concentration camps.This was the best option for them, that is. To. Be alone in the occupied city was the worst.A child in such a situation only threatened with starvation.In addition, the Germans sometimes amused and hungry children threw a piece of bread ... and then fired a burst from the machine.That's why the Red Army, if passed in such areas, it is very sensitive to the children and so often taken them with him.As mentioned Baghramian often the courage and ingenuity of the sons of the regiment struck even experienced soldiers.
Feats of children in war deserve no less respect than the exploits of adults.According to the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, in the army during World War II fought 3,500 children, whose age was less than 16 years.However, these data may not be accurate, t. To. They are not sensitive young heroes of the guerrilla groups.Five were awarded the highest military award.About three of them will be discussed in detail, though it was far from all, particularly distinguished themselves in the war children are heroes who deserve mention.
Valya Kotik
14-year-old Valya Kotik was a partisan-scout troop Karmelyuka name.He - the young hero of the USSR.He ran errands Shepetovka military organization for exploration.His first job (and he did successfully completed) was to eliminate the field gendarmerie squad.This task was far from the last.Valya Kotik died in 1944, 5 days after he turned 14.
Lenya Golikov
16-year-old Leonid Golikov was a scout Fourth Leningrad partisan brigade.Since the beginning of the war, he went to the guerrillas.Thin Lenya looked even younger than his 14 years (just as it was during the beginning of the war).He was disguised as a beggar walked around the village and passed important information partisans.Lenya took part in 27 battles, undermined vehicles with ammunition and more than a dozen bridges.In 1943 his unit was not able to get out of the environment.They managed to survive a few.Leni was not among them.
Zina Portnov
17-year-old Zina Portnov was the scout of guerrilla group Voroshilov on the territory of Belarus.She was also a member of the underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers."In 1943, she was assigned to find out the reasons for the collapse of the organization and establish contact with the underground.Upon returning to the squad, she was arrested by the Germans.During one of the interrogations, she grabbed the gun fascist inspector and shot him and two other fascists.She tried to escape but she was captured.As mentioned in the book "Zina Portnov" the writer Vasily Smirnov, the girl tried hard and sophistication that she called the names of other members of the underground, but it was unwavering.For this the Germans called it in their protocols "Soviet Bandidas."In 1944, it was shot.
