Dmitry Karbysheva's biography is atypical for the Soviet Military: he was a nobleman, an offacarious military. This is a vivid example of a person who was in his place and made a brilliant career thanks to his own talent, purposefulness, the exceptional strength of the Spirit.

Childhood and youth

The twelve-year-old boy is the feat of which was still ahead, remained without a father. Six children brought up mother alone. Financial difficulties were ordinary, but the sons took the mind.

Senior, Vladimir, entered the Kazan University, but was excluded: sympathized with revolutionary. His fate was tragic: he died in prison very young.

The younger entered Siberian and had to pay for study, since the family history did not have to privilege. Nevertheless, Carbyshev did not mess around. He studied brilliantly, discovered great abilities to engineering. All his further career is associated with military construction.

Start of military service

After graduating from the school found himself in Manchuria (1900). Here it was found the first of the military campaigns, in which the future general Dmitry Karbyshev took part. The feat of this brilliant military, which is most often written in the relevant editions, would be impossible without previous experience.

The Russian-Japanese war of Carbsishev met in the rank of a companion (received in 1903). In the course of military operations, it was done with the specialty: he brought the crossing, built fortifications, provided communication. For the manifested valor, he was awarded and received a promotion in service: he graduated from war in the rank of lieutenant.

The nature of the future General Karbyshev was an uncompromising, then he did not consider it necessary to hide his worldview. In 1906 he was resigned: interpreted an officer with soldiers for provocative topics.

Serve was glad ...

On freeze, it was possible to be shortly: the bosses quickly realized that the trusty around - the pond of the pride, and the experts of the level of Karbyshev - the cat was applied. After a year, Dmitry Mikhailovich returned to the service, and in 1908 he went to St. Petersburg, to conquer new heights: he entered the engineering academy, which she graduated from brilliance in three years.

In 1911, Carbyshev, in position, headquartered in Brest Litovsk. The famous fortress, so desperately resisted the fascists in the 41st year, was built under his direct participation.

Soon the war began. It should be said that the wars of Dmitry Mikhailovich fell with an excess: both Russian-Japanese, and Soviet-Finnish and both world. In almost every one of them, the future general Carbsishev took part in the very beginning. The feat that was subsequently performed by him was not the first and not the only one. During the transmission operation, he was awarded the Order and produced in Colonels.

When a revolution occurred in Russia, the Karbyshev reaction was quite predictable. Already in December 1917, at least not doubting in his own choice, he signed up in the Red Guard, as part of the Red Army participated in the Civil War. His undoubted abilities found use: Carbyshev participated in the creation of many defense structures.

In 1920, he already served as Deputy Head of Engineers of the Southern Front, and in 1923 he chiefs of engineers from Ukraine and Crimea.

Science is also attractive for a talented person: For many years, Carbsishev taught at the Military Academy. Frunze, wrote more than a hundred special scientific Laborsdevoted to bridges and others.

On the eve he received the title of Lieutenant General (1940). In the same year he entered the party. Still, the country of the Soviets was sometimes a state paradoxical: on the one hand, many members of the CPSU were rejected in Stalin's camps, including the brilliant military, and General Carbyshev, the feat of which gave us an example of the inflexible spirit, made a brilliant career, not being an official communist.

Participation in the Way

The attack of the Hitler's army caught the elderly (Dmitry Mikhailovich was born in 1880) General western border: He participated in the work on the construction of fortifications. It was not time to evacuate him: the first Natiski Germans stuck the Soviet army. The crumpled red army rapidly retreated, leaving behind thousands of killed and wounded. Many soviet soldiers And officers were captured. Among them was General Carbishev. The feat of an inflexible Russian officer began in early August 1941 and lasted almost four years.

The Germans were well aware of what rank specialist to them. They really counted on his knowledge, experience and talent. There are evidence, according to which he was going to attract the Wehrmacht service after the victory, and here such luck! But Hitlerians waited for a surprise very unpleasant: the feat of General Karbyshev may not have been spectacular, but demonstrated the impressive example of the courage, the strength of spirit and patriotism. From cooperation, he consistently refused, a lot of strength and patience was spent on him, ultimately it was decided by his fate.

Torture gingerbread

At first, Carbishev came to the concentration camp of the usual regime, where he had bored for the full program. But in 1942, he was transferred to Khammelburg concentration camp. The conditions in it were the most privileged: the feat of General Karbyshev demanded not only patience from him, but also resilience to temptations. Many of those who survived the horrors of ordinary Hitler's "Sanatoriums", broke here, not wanting to return to the experienced.

For the "Appeal to Truth", Karbyshev answered Colonel Pelit - Nazis were very expected to be very expected to him, because sometime they worked together with Dmitry Mikhailovich together. The German officer diligently processed the Red General, painting him numerous benefits - material and others who would gain, betraying his homeland. Positive result did not follow. General Carbyshev, the feat of which to this day forces him to respect him, cooperate refused categorically, and even more so: he was confident in the victory of Soviet weapons. By believing this, he was generously shared with others, inspiring them completely extra, according to the fascists, optimism.

The decision to take up the whip

It was decided to stop using a gingerbread and take up the whip - and in a single camera of Berlin prison, General Carbishev appeared. The feat, briefly tell about which will not work, demanded from the Russian engineer of reinforced concrete in its own right.

"Promarinov" of his prisoner for almost a month, the Germans decided that this would be enough. After the next interrogation, the general found in the office of the investigator of the famous Professor Raubenheimer, a major specialist in the field of fortification. Of course, they were familiar. The work of German Carbsishev belonged to great respect.

The stroke general made the last sentence, whose generosity could not not impress. Carbishev was offered to leave the camps and prisons in return for the generous content and the opportunity to engage in love. Under the terms of the agreement, he had to organize a scientific laboratory for design tests. The staff could gain as it takes, financing received the widest one. Its services could be the best minds and libraries of the Third Reich.

A military engineer could not not understand that the next sentence would not follow. Nevertheless, his response was brief: putting his military honor above the lifetime itself, refused enemy generotes, which appears the example of a real heroism. The feat of General Karbyshev briefly can be prompted by his own phrase: "I am a soldier and remain faithful to my debt."

Jokes ended

The fascists immediately set the fat cross on the dreams of cooperation, and Carbyshev found himself in the frequency. The work was very difficult, but, according to the evidence of Solagers, the general and there was not indulged. The conviction in the coming victory did not attend anything. He inspired this faith in others, being a peculiar leader of resistance.

Perhaps because of this, and maybe for other reasons, it was constantly translated from the camp to the camp. In early 1945, when a few weeks remained before the victory, he was a prisoner of the death bullie camp Mauthausen.

The death of the hero

With its victims, the fascists are not particularly ceremony. The outcome of the war for many was already obvious, the illusions did not remain. Hitlerovsky chains They sought to deal with those who found themselves in their power.

On February 18, the Gestapovians brought their wards into the yard and began to water ice water from the hoses. Standing a fierce frost - exhausted, hungry people died one by one: someone had no heart, someone just frozen. For an attempt to dodge awarded a blow on the head. Among the most resistant, General Carbshev turned out to be: even turning into an ice pillar, he found the strength to support comrades.

This story is known thanks to the Soulager of General, Canadian officer Seddon de Saint Clera. In 1946, he, while in the London Hospital, suddenly demanded a meeting with a representative of the Soviet missions on repatriation issues. It was the first news about Dmitry Mikhailovic: since 1941 he was listed among the missing.

After confirming the information received, the feat of General Karbyshev in the enemy captivity was highly appreciated by the Soviet leadership. Almost exactly five years after he was in captivity, he was awarded the title Hero Soviet Union.

People's Memory

Every year people come to Mauthausen to honor the memory of 300 thousand people who are silent here once. On the territory there is a monument to General Carbishev: he is calmly towers over the area, folding his hands on his chest. The figure of the hero protrudes from the stone only half-monolith depicts an ice column, which turned to the death of General Carbishev. The feat of the famous Sergey Vasilyev felt in verses. In 1975, he wrote the poem "Dignity", for which the State Prize was awarded.

In Russia, recent years have become more often remembered by the heroic past. At all levels, the desire to know and be proud of their history is supported and encouraged. Numerous articles about Dmitry Mikhailovic began to appear. Many resources on the Internet publish the creations of their users impressed by the courage of an officer. Let some poems about the feat of General Karbyshev are naive and are not always friends with rhyme, but they are written from a pure heart.

There was a time when any schoolboy in the Soviet school could tell, who General Dmitry Karbyshev and for which he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Alas, we are increasingly losing not only the memory of people who gave the most expensive, which can be a person - life, for the freedom of their country, but also a sense of gratitude to genuine heroes. So, who he was - General of the Red Army Dmitry Karbyshev, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a prisoners of war, who adopted martyrdom in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Biography General Karbyshev briefly

Carbishev was born on October 26, 1880 in Omsk, in the family of the hereditary military, and his career was predetermined. He finishes the Cadet Corps, the Military Engineering School and in the rank of the podoruk, goes to the eastern List, in Manchuria. There he caught him, for participating in which he was awarded five battle orders and three medals, which is a confirmation of personal courage. In the royal army, the award for "beautiful eyes" was not given. In 1906, Dmitry Karbyshev, Lieutenant, dismissed from the army to the reserve for "unreliability" after the officer's court of honor. But, literally in a year, the military department returned an experienced and delometric officer to participate in the restructuring of the fortification fortifications of Vladivostok.

In 1911, Carbyshev, with honors, ends the Nikolaev Military Engineering Academy and receives a distribution to Sevastopol, but it turns out to be in Brest-Litovsk. Few people know that Dmitry Mikhailovich took part in the construction of the famous. During the First World War, he fought at the beginning of General Brusylov, participated in his famous breakthrough and storming the fortress Menley. He was awarded and produced in lieutenant colonels.

Red Army Service

After the October Revolution, he joined the Red Guard and was engaged in the construction of strengthening structures on different fronts - in the Urals, in the Volga region, in Ukraine. He was personally familiar with Kuibyshev and Frunze, who appreciated the former royal colonel and trusted him, met with Dzerzhinsky. Carbishev was entrusted to lead the creation of defensive structures around Samara, which were subsequently used as a bridgehead for the onset of the Red Army. After Civil War He begins to teach at the Military Academy. Frunze, and in 1934 he heads the Department of Military Engineering Department of the General Staff Academy.

Among the students of the Academy, Dmitry Mikhailovich enjoyed great popularity, which was later recalled by the general of the army of Shtemenko. Carbishev belonged to the saying about the importance of engineering and saming troops - "One battalion, one hour, one kilometer, one ton, one row." To the beginning, Carbsishev had a scientific degree of professor, defended his doctoral dissertation, he was awarded the title of Lieutenant General engineering troopsAnd he became a member of the WCP (b). The beginning of the war caught Karbyshev on the Western border in Belarus. Trying to get out of the environment, he gets a heavy wound and captures.

The feat of the Russian general

For several years in Moscow, they knew nothing about the fate of the general. He was considered missing. Only in 1946 by the Major of the Canadian Army Seddon de Saint-Claire, the details of the last days of the life of the Soviet General became known. This happened in mid-February 1945. The Mauthausen concentration camp drove a large batch of prisoners of war from other camps. Among them was the general Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. The Germans forced people to undress and began to water them cold water From brandssette. Many fell from the rupture of the heart, and those who shied, beaten by clubs. Carbishev pounded standing next to him, already covered with ice. "Motherland will not forget us" - last words General, before falling. His body, like the rest of the others, was burned in the Krematorium oven.

Later, from German archives it became known that Carbishev received a new proposal of the German command about cooperation, but did not give consent to this. The noble memory of the heroic death of the Soviet man, General Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev, who did not become a traitor of the Motherland, did not lose his human dignity and honor of the officer, should be preserved in the history of our country.

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On April 21, 1735, Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, the great Russian self-taught inventor from the village of Nizhny Novgorod County from the village of Nizhny Novgorod County.

Great Russian self-taught inventor

On April 21, 1735, Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, the great Russian self-taught inventor from the village of Nizhny Novgorod County from the village of Nizhny Novgorod County.

Kulibin became famous for the whole world with the design of the original engineering structures from microscopic to gigantic.
In 1767, he took the clock, in which there was a mechanism of hours combat, a music apparatus with several melodies and a small automatic theater with moving figures.
For 30 years, starting from 1769, Kulibin was the head of the mechanical workshop at the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, where he headed the processes of production of various machines and instruments for navigation, astronomical and physical purposes.
In 1772, he conducted a test model of a 300-meter unionic bridge intended for installation on the Neva.
Kulibin invented a spotlight lantern, which had a reflector of small mirrors, a waterport for movement against a flow, a crew with a pedal actuator and much more.

Mastering the fortress of the Navarin

On April 21, 1770, the landing squad of the Russian fleet (300 people and siege artillery) under the command of Brigadier I. Hannibal with a squadron (2 linear ship and frigate) Admiral G. A. Spiridova mastered the Turkish fortress of the Navarine.

Mastering the fortress of the Navarin

On April 21, 1770, the landing squad of the Russian fleet (300 people and siege artillery) under the command of Brigadier I. Hannibal with a squadron (2 linear ship and frigate) Admiral G. A. Spiridova mastered the Turkish fortress of the Navarine.

The Russian squadron, under the command of G. A. Spiridov, was sent to the Mediterranean Sea shortly after the start of the war with Turkey with the task of delaying part of the enemy's forces from the Black Sea and the Sudenha Theater and assist Grekam in their struggle for independence. Going to the head, after the six-day bombing, the Russian detachment took the fortress. The landing captured 42 guns, 3 Mortira, 800 powder pounds and a lot of weapons. For some time, the Navarine that had a comfortable bay was used as a temporary maneuverable base of the Russian fleet.

Cosmonaut Zaletin

Cosmonaut Zaletin

On April 21, 1962, Sergey Viktorovich Zaletin, Pilot-cosmonaut, hero of Russia.

Made two flights into space - the commander of the crew "Union TM-30" and the commander of the Soyuz TMA-1, spending in space in the total account of 83 days 16 hours 35 minutes 25 seconds.
On May 1, 2014, he was translated from the Space-Test Instructor office for the position of the leading specialist of the organizational and planning department of the CSP cosmonauts detachment, disposing of existing cosmonauts.

12, 5 thousand miles under water

On April 21, 1964, the campaign of the nuclear submarine K-27 began (project 645) Northern Fleet (Commander-captain 1 rank I. I. Gulyaev) to the equatorial areas of the Atlantic. It was the first in domestic history Long continuous hike in the underwater position. For 1240 run hours passed 12,425 miles. Head of the vice-admiral of G. N. Bachelor. Hike completed on July 11.

12, 5 thousand miles under water

On April 21, 1964, the campaign of the nuclear submarine K-27 (project 645) of the Northern Fleet (commander-captain of 1 rank I. I. Glyaev) began to the equatorial areas of the Atlantic. It was the first long-term continuous campaign in the domestic history in the underwater position. For 1240 run hours passed 12,425 miles. Head of the vice-admiral of G. N. Bachelor. Hike completed on July 11.

The task of the hike was the test of a boat on the limiting modes to identify the capabilities of the boat and checking the systems and the mechanisms of the ship in the conditions of autonomous navigation. In addition, it was necessary to find out the optimal modes of the operation of the energy installation. Different climatic zones were overcome - the campaign took place from the Arctic to the equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
To solve the tasks, the crew was strengthened by freelance specialists: Chairman of the Government Commission Vice-Admiral G. N. Bachelor was appointed as the head of the campaign, in the campaign headquarters enteredcounter-Admiral I. D. Dorofeev and other representatives of the fleet. The technical part was headed by the chief designer of the boat A. K. Nazarov and the leading designer of SKB-143 G. D. Morozkin, who was responsible for the operation of the energy installation.
During the hike, an abnormal situation happened to the reactor of the left side of the submarine. Melted metal hit the first circuit gas system and froze there. As a result, the system has dropped a vacuum in the system, the only way to eliminate the malfunction was the work directly at the site of the accident near the active zone of the reactor. The work performed the division commander to apita of the 3rd rank of A. V. Shpakov, which cut the defective tube and manually broke her. (He received a significant dose of radiation.) After that, welders have brewed the tube, restoring the performance of the reactor. The most extreme conditions were in equatorial waters, when the water temperature was + 25 ... + 27 ° C. When working in such conditions, the cooling system of the reactor worked at the limit of their capabilities, while the temperature in reactor and turbogenerator compartments was about 60 ° C, due to the remaining boat compartments warmed up to a temperature of 45 ° C with humidity up to 100%.

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In February 1946, the representative of the Soviet repatriation mission in England reported that he urgently wants to see a wounded Canadian officer, who was in the hospital under London. The officer, the former prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp, considered it necessary to inform the Soviet representative "extremely important information".

Canadian major called Seddon de Saint Claire. "I want to tell you about how died Lieutenant-General Dmitry Karbyshev"Pronunciation officer said when the Soviet representative appeared in the hospital.

The story of the Canadian Military became the first news about Dmitry Mikhailovic Carbishev since 1941 ...

Cadet from the unreliable family

Dmitry Karbyshev was born on October 26, 1880 in the family of the military. From the ornament, he dreamed of continuing the dynasty, started by his father and grandfather. Dmitry entered the Siberian Cadet Corps, however, despite the effort, manifested in study, was listed there among the "unrealized".

The fact is that the elder brother Dmitry, Vladimir, participated in a revolutionary circle created at the University of Kazan, together with another young radical - Vladimir Ulyanov. But if the future leader of the revolution was separated only by an exception from the university, then Vladimir Karbyshev was in prison, where he was subsequently died.

Despite the stigma of "unreliable", Dmitry Karbyshev studied brilliantly, and in 1898, at the end cadet corps, entered the Nikolaev engineering school.

Of all the military specialties, Karbyshev most of all attracted the construction of fortifications and defensive structures.

The talent of a young officer was first brightly manifested itself in the Russian-Japanese campaign - Carbyshev strengthened his position, brought bridges through the rivers, established means of communication and conducted intelligence in battle.

Despite Russia's unsuccessful outcome of war, Carbsishev showed himself as a class specialist, which was noted by medals and rank of lieutenant.

From grisjul to perk

But for freedomity in 1906, Lieutenant Karbyshev was fired from service. True, for a short time, the command was enough to understand that it was not worth scattering such a level.

On the eve of World War I, the Captain Captain Dmitry Karbyshev designed the Forts of the Brest Fortress - the very, in which the Soviet soldiers will fight the Nazis soldiers later.

First World War Carbyshev passed as a divisional engineer of the 78th and 69th infantry divisions, and then the head of the engineering service of the 22nd Finnish Rifle Corps. For bravery and courage during the storming of the Misley, and during the Brusilovsky breakthrough, he was produced in lieutenant colonels and awarded the Order of St. Anne.

During the revolution, Lieutenant Colonel Carbyshev did not rush, and immediately joined the Red Guard. He all his life was faithful to his views and beliefs from which he did not rejoice.

In November 1920, Dmitry Karbyshev was engaged engineering support The storm of the perk, whose success finally decided the outcome of the civil war.

Missing

By the end of the 1930s, Dmitry Karbyshev was considered one of the most prominent specialists in the field of military engineering art not only in the Soviet Union, but also in the world. In 1940, he was awarded the title of Lieutenant General, and in 1941 - the degree of Dr. Military Sciences.

On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, General Carbsishev worked on the creation of defensive structures on the Western border. During one of the trips to his border and found the beginning of the fighting.

The rapid offensive of the Nazis delivered Soviet troops in a difficult position. The 60-year-old General of Engineering Forces is not the most necessary person in parts that the environment threatens. However, Karbyshev was evacuated. However, he himself, as a real combat officer, decided to escape from the Hitler's "bag" along with our parts.

But on August 8, 1941, Lieutenant-General Karbyshev was seriously contused in the battle of the Dnieper River, and in unconsciously, he was captured.

From this point on, until 1945, a short phrase will be in his personal case: "disappeared."

Valuable specialist

The German command was convinced: Carbsishev among the Bolsheviks - a man casual. The nobleman, the officer of the Tsarist army, he with ease agree to go to their side. In the end, he and CPS (b) entered only in 1940, apparently, forced.

However, very soon the Nazis found that Carbishev is a strong nut. The 60-year-old General served the third Reihu refused, expressed confidence in the ultimate victory of the Soviet Union and did not resemble a person broken by captivity.

In March 1942, Karbyshev was transferred to the officer concentration camp Hammelburg. It was active psychological processing of high-ranking Soviet officers in order to force them to move towards Germany. For this, the most humane and friendly conditions were created. Many bubbled liha in ordinary soldier camps, broke on it. Carbishev, however, turned out to be completely from the other text - it was failed to distinguish any benefits and disarming.

Soon they put to Carbishev colonel Pelita. This officer of the Wehrmacht perfectly owned the Russian language, as he served in his tsarist army. Moreover, Pelit was a colleague Karbyshev while working on the Forts of the Brest Fortress.

Pelit, a thin psychologist, painted all the advantages of the service of the Great Germany before Carbieshev, offered "compromise options for cooperation" - for example, the general is engaged in historical works on the military operations of the Red Army in the current war, and for this in the future it will be allowed to depart in a neutral country.

However, Carbyshev again wondered all the collaboration options offered by Nazis.

Incorruptible

Then the Nazis took the last attempt. The general was transferred to a single chamber one of the prisons of Berlin, where she kept about three weeks.

After that, in the office of the investigator, his colleague was waiting - famous german Fortifor Professor Gainz Raubenheimer.

The Nazis knew that Carbyshev and Rubenheimer were familiar, moreover, the Russian General respectfully refers to the works of the German scientist.

Raubenheimer voiced Carbshev's following suggestion of the authorities of the Third Reich. The general was offered to liberation from the camp, the possibility of moving to a private apartment, as well as full material security. He will have access to all libraries and books in Germany, the opportunity to get acquainted with other materials in its fields of interest to its areas of military engineering business. If necessary, any number of assistants were guaranteed to arrange the laboratory, performing experimental work and ensuring other research activities. The results of the work should be the property of German specialists. All the ranks of the German army will refer to Carbishev as a lieutenant-general of the Engineering troops of the German Reich.

Already a person who passed through deprivation in camps, offered luxurious conditions with the preservation of position and even the title. Did not even require branding Stalin and Bolshevik regime. Hitlerians were interested in the work of Karbyshev in his main specialty.

Dmitry Mikhailovich Carbsishev perfectly understood that it was most likely the last sentence. He understood and what follows the refusal.

However, the courageous general said: "My beliefs do not fall out with the teeth from the lack of vitamins in the camp diet. I am soldier and remain faithful to my duty. And he prohibits me to work on the country that is in a state of war with my homeland. "

The Nazis was very expected to be very expensive to Karbyshev, his influence and authority. It is he, and not general VlasovAt the initial idea, it was supposed to lead the Russian liberation army.

But all the plans of the Nazis broke on the adarity of Karbyshev.

Mogly plates for fascists

After that, the Nazis was put on the general of the cross, determining it as a "convinced, fanatical Bolshevik, whose use is impossible in the service."

Karbysheva was sent to the concentration camp of the frequency travelers, where they began to use special severity on religious work. But here, the general surprised his comrades on the misfortune of an inflexible will, the power of spirit and confidence in the ultimate victory of the Red Army.

One of the Soviet prisoners then recalled that Carbyshev knew how to raise the mood even in the most difficult moments. When the prisoners worked on the manufacture of gravestones, the general noticed: "Here is the work that gives me true pleasure. The greater the scums require our Germans, the better, it means that our business goes on the front. "

He was translated from the camp to the camp, the conditions were becoming more harsh, but Cabbyshev did not manage to break. In each of the camps, where the general turned out to be, he became a real leader of the spiritual resistance to the enemy. His resistance attached forces to those who were near.

Front rolled to the west. Soviet troops Entered the territory of Germany. The outcome of the war became obvious even to convincing Nazis. Hitlerists had nothing left, besides hatred and desire to deal with those who turned out to be stronger even in the skies and for barbed wire ...

Casman

Major Seddon de Saint-Claire was one of several dozen prisoners of war, who managed to survive on a terrible night on February 18, 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

"As soon as we entered the territory of the camp, the Germans drove us into a shower, ordered to undress and let the jet of icy water on us. It lasted for a long time. All cried. Many fell on the floor and immediately died: the heart could not stand. Then we ordered only underwear and wooden pads on the feet and kicked out into the courtyard. General Carbsishev stood in the group of Russian comrades not far from me. We understood that we live the last clock. After a couple of minutes, the gestapovtsy standing behind our spins with firefighters in their hands began to water us with cold water streams. Who tried to evade the jet, those who were bliped by the heads on the head. Hundreds of people fell frozen or familiar to the skulls. I saw both General Carbishev, "said Canadian Major.

The last words of the general were addressed to those who divided the terrible fate with him: "Bodray, comrades! Think of homeland, and courage will not leave you! ".

From the story of the Canadian Major began collecting information about recent years Life of General Karbyshev, conducted in German captivity. All the collected documents and evidence of eyewitnesses spoke about the exclusive courage and the persistence of this person.

August 16, 1946 for exceptional persistence and courage, manifested in the fight against the German invaders in the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant-General Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbishev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1948 in the territory former concentration Mauthausen was opened a monument to the General. The inscription on it reads: "Dmitry Carbishev. Scientist. Warrior Communist. His life and death were a feat in the name of life. "