He made contact with a Soviet partisan unit named "Death to Fascism". Despite their initial suspicions and repeated interrogations, Schmenkel convinced the partisans that he had a genuine desire to fight against the Nazis. He won their trust by killing a German soldier who, by coincidence, attempted to set fire to the house where the partisans had their base.
wearing captured German uniforms, including one belonging to a Wehrmacht general, Schmenkel led German military units into ambushes arranged by the partisans. This helped the partisans capture entire units of Wehrmacht soldiers, as well as ammunition and food.
Read a little bit about him elsewhere, seems like the Soviets didn't let him have a gun at first because they didn't trust him. They gave him binoculars and let him be a spotter. Then their village got surrounded by Nazis and Schmenkel found a rifle (probably off a dead guy) and started blasting. Killed a Nazi on his first shot. I guess one of the Nazis he killed turned out to be someone the Soviets already knew as the guy who tried to burn their base down. So that finally got the Soviets to trust him.
Also there seems to be a lot of conflicting stories and mythology surrounding this guy, probably because everything known about him came from really tired traumatized soldiers. Found another version of the story where he asked for a gun instead of finding one, so who knows.
Imagines quitting and defecting to the Soviets
Okay now what
Become Fritz Schmenkel
king
Wait did he kill the German soldier while the soldier was trying to burn the house down, or did he just happen to kill te exact right soldier?
Read a little bit about him elsewhere, seems like the Soviets didn't let him have a gun at first because they didn't trust him. They gave him binoculars and let him be a spotter. Then their village got surrounded by Nazis and Schmenkel found a rifle (probably off a dead guy) and started blasting. Killed a Nazi on his first shot. I guess one of the Nazis he killed turned out to be someone the Soviets already knew as the guy who tried to burn their base down. So that finally got the Soviets to trust him.
Also there seems to be a lot of conflicting stories and mythology surrounding this guy, probably because everything known about him came from really tired traumatized soldiers. Found another version of the story where he asked for a gun instead of finding one, so who knows.
:gigachad: chad defector joining the partisans and helping them kill Nazis
Or Heinz Kessler
His name is absolutely a Simpsons invention, but what an absolute chad regardless
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