6. August 1941
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The following morning (6 Aug 41) we return to the front in a curve, but into the neighbouring section. Here the Soviets had been able to occupy a village and the surrounding heights in the rearguard action. We have to throw them back again. After a short regrouping and deployment, we once again step up to the attack on the heights. To support our attack, a battery of 10-cm field howitzers had taken up position last night and were now taking the heights under fire. And while our shells explode up among the Russian positions (we would have wished for bigger fireworks), the attacking companies slowly advance on a broad front, cross a field and dive into a cornfield. Then, about thirty metres in front of me, an Ivan jumps up, shoots down the German soldier standing closest to him from five metres away, throws his rifle away and raises his hands. We are seized by a furious rage. We would have loved to shoot this beast. But no one dared, because it would have been against international law.[1] So he is lead off as a prisoner. The German is dead.
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- ↑ The The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 1929, however, had not actually been signed by the Soviet Union themselves, so that they probably could not have insisted on its application.