Chapter 0.3: Their Land... their blood.
Polkovnik Porozhnyak selected the former Stalag III-C as the HQ site for the BPO regiment. Until it was liberated by the Red Army, it had held POW from the US, Britain, Poland, Yugoslavia, France, and even a few Italians.
No Russian prisoners, though. The Germans had let them starve to death.
It was just one more atrocity in a long list of sins.
Yelena joined the rest of B Company in what used to be the officer's mess hall. Once everyone had arrived, the man who had recruited her started to speak.
"Comrades, the last days of the '1000-year-Reich' are upon us. It will have lasted less than 13 years. Soon, the Red Army will take these heights and then the assault on Berlin will begin in earnest. It will be a fight from house to house, from street to street. We have known this type of fighting since Stalingrad. Only now it will take place in their land... and we will spill their blood."
Porozhnyak paused to give the men and women time to react.
"I have a special mission for you. The Americans are hunting a man named Kemmel. We don't quite know why. Some war criminal or other. We have offered of handing him over if captured, but they insisted to get him himself."
He slowly wagged is head left to right.
"Now, their insistence was of a kind that made me wonder why this man is so important to the Capitalists? They have, sadly, already caught most of the high-ranking fascists, as these animals fled faster than we could pursue them. And this Kemmel seems to have been in Köngisberg, when the battle started. But he was not identified among the prisoners, nor the dead."
He shrugged.
"That doesn't mean anything. Thousands and tens of thousands are missing, after all. Once the was has ended, we will have the time to turn every stone until we have found them. Russia never forgets."
He looked out the window. "But, let us not forget that the Americans helped us with material when the fasiscts attacked. It would be unkind to not return the favor.
Your mission is as follows: You will find the American company charged with finding Kemmel and you will escort and protect them. Find out who this Kemmel is and if he is of any interest, take him into custody. For safe-keeping."
He turned back to face the company. "Are there any questions?"
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