History 10/03/20 What happened to the first defector is Hitler in the USSR
About the identity of the German soldier Alfred Liskov little is known. Only a narrow circle of historians and people who are interested in history, knows that this man warned the Red army of the coming invasion of Hitler.
Alfred Liskov was an anti-fascist. Born in 1910, in the family of the poor Germans: the cleaners and the handyman. Special funds for the education of the son family did not have, so Alfred immediately after school went to earn a living. Worked as a carpenter at a furniture factory in his native Prussian town of Kolberg (after the Polish-Soviet territorial exchange in 1951 it was owned by the USSR). Then, like other young Germans, he was drafted into the army.
Alfred was a clandestine Communist organization in Germany. Even for ultra his views were more than revolutionary. Liskov expressed such radical ideas that his party supporters were afraid of their conditions ensuing in the time of Nazi propaganda.
Archives of the Wehrmacht
In the former archives of the Wehrmacht in Berlin remained not so much information about Alfred Liskova. June 21, 1941, he crossed the Soviet border in the area of the Western bug. What pushed him to it, nor the Germans, nor our historians was not seriously studied. Only in 2011, documents on the soldier defector, was first opened for Russian channel NTV.
In them the name of Alfred Liskov listed first losses of the German army in world war II. In the registry of the victims stated that corporal Liskov died June 22, 1941. No more data in there about it there. Other soldiers and officers recorded in more detail: under what circumstances, in what area they died, etc.
After a little investigation NTV journalists, it became known that the authorities Liskova sure knew nothing about his death. Command would just think that he drowned in the Western bug river at night the construction of the crossing for a future attack on the Soviet Union. In July the Nazis stumbled on the downed aircraft, which was signed Laskovym leaflets.
the Activities of the German soldier in Soviet territory
In fact, June 21, Liskov secretly crossed the border and surrendered to the Soviet border guards. He immediately warned them about the imminent attack of Nazi Germany. According to the testimony of a defector, in the German army there were many soldiers who did not want to start a war. Only the threat of execution led them forward. This he said when crossed the Soviet border and later in the anti-fascist leaflets.
When it became known that the corporal Liskov alive and is on Soviet territory, the Gestapo he was a criminal matter. A traitor to the Reich would expect to be shot, just getting it into the hands of the Nazis. Liskov left at home mother, wife and young son. They were interrogated by the Gestapo in the summer and autumn of 1941.
crossing the border Alfred planned in advance 3 months prior to the events of June. Countrymen Liskova remember it as about thin, very polite man, the idealist and the poet. His poems to print in the German pre-war press did not dare because of too bold ideas. After crossing the border in 1941, Alfred joined the Comintern, began to travel around the country with propaganda speeches.
the Arrest and fate of
In November 1941 Liskova and the entire Executive Committee of the Comintern was evacuated to Bashkiria. According to the plan of the Soviet government people like Alfred, was to conduct awareness and training activities in the pow camps of the Germans. But 2 months later he was arrested by the NKVD.
There is a theory that the idealist Liskov was disappointed with communism in the Soviet Union and on this basis might conflict with the leadership of the Comintern. In particular, he had friction with a protégé of Stalin, Dimitrov and others. Alfred was accused of anti-Semitism, fascism.
In 1942-1943 traces soldier-defector finally lost. According to some reports he tried to feign madness to escape punishment. And all the chances that former Nazi soldiers (even warned the Soviet Union of the impending German attack) will be released alive from the Gulag, are negligible.
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