By Ilya Ehrenburg
Published:
1942-01-01
The
following text is from premier Soviet propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg.
Spurred on by this brand of ethnic hatred, it is no wonder that the Red
Army committed such a vast number of atrocities.
If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... If you cannot kill your German with a bullet, kill him with your bayonet. If there is calm on your part of the front, if you are waiting for the fighting, kill a German before combat. If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another - there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses. Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill ther German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill."
Text is found in Ilya Ehrenburg's book Vojna (The war) (Moscow, 1942-43)
SOURCE: FIRST POSTED AT http://codoh.com/library/document/1136
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| The Germans are not human beings. From now on, the word "German" is the worst possible curse-word to us. From now on the word German strikes us to the quick. We shall say no more. We shall not get excited. We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German in a day, you have wasted that day. If you think your neighbor will kill a German, then you do not realize the danger. If you don't kill the German, the German will kill you. He will abduct your relatives and bring them back to his accursed Germany where he will torture them. (July 7th, 1942) | ” |
| “ | If you cannot kill your German with a bullet, kill him with your bayonet. If there is calm on your part of the front, or if you are waiting for the fighting, kill a German in the meantime. If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another -- there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses. Count not the days, nor the kilometers. Count only the number of Germans killed by you. Kill the German -- that is your grandmother's request. Kill the German! -- that is your child's prayer. Kill the German! --your motherland cries out. Do not miss. Do not let through. Kill! (From leaflet "Kill" by Ilja Ehrenburg) | ” |
| “ | It is not enough to drive the Germans back to the west. The Germans must be hunted, all the way to the grave. Certainly, a Fritz with a black-eye is better than one without. But among all varieties of Fritzes, the best is the dead one. (Ehrenburg, October 1944, writing in Red Star). | ” |
| “ | Kill, you brave Red-Army men, kill! There is nothing that the German is not guilty of. Comrade Stalin instructs us to put down this rabid animal. Break, with your force, the arrogant racial-pride of the Germanic Woman. Take her as your rightful prize of war. Kill, you brave Red Army men. Kill. | ” |
| “ | Kill! Kill! In the
German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one
among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade
Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use
force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as
your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers
of the Red Army. SOURCE: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg |
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