A very tragic event occurred in France, in 1944, when the seven Canadian soldiers were engaged in intensive fighting. German tank force captured them. They were not dealt with as prisoners of war, but carried to an old stone monastery to which the Germans were utilizing a base. What followed was planned and extremely cold in nature. The German commander was extremely brutal. He did not kill them all together. He used to confine them in a small room with a lock and would take them out one by one into the garden. This was to enable the rest of the men to hear all that. Every soldier was forced to wait inwardly and he knew very well that he would be the next. They were able to listen to what was occurring with their fellow men outside. They were shot in the back of the head one by one as they were brought into the quiet garden. The trial was nonexistent and the opportunity to defend was non existent. The bodies were then put together and the soil was only once or twice thick. Other t...
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was a young bold woman of the Soviet Union in the time of the World War 2. She was 18 when the Nazis assaulted her country.
Late in the year 1941 German soldiers approached Moscow dangerously close. Zoya finalized in an underground movement called partisans. Their task was to destroy the German on the rear of the lines and they accomplished it by setting fire to where the soldiers slept or stored their rations. This was essential work during that time of the year since winter was coming.
When Zoya was about to torch a building in one of the villages, she was detained by German wartime troops on November 27, 1941. During two days they continued torturing her. They, too, used to whip her, and walk her about barefooted on icy nights. Zoya remained a strong woman. She not only did not give them certain handy information but she even offered them an alias, Tanya.
Then on November 29, 1941 the Germans strangled her so as to terrorize the villagers. They signed a mark to be put on her that meant, Houseburner. Zoya also tried to inspire soldier cries by screaming that people should fight and continue despite the fact that she knew she was soon coming to die and she made Germans know that they will also lose.
And her body was kept suspended several weeks. Her boldness was also acquired by a considerable number of people later on. One of the heroes grew up in the Soviet Union and the sapling was Zoya. In 1942, she received the highest thing the Soviet Union could Telebron her and that was the hero of the Soviet Union and she received it as the first woman in the war to receive it.
The story of her magnificent courage is visible in one of the very dark times.
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