战争（2007）

The War S01E07

Part 6 May 17, 2021, 11:51 a.m.

此时欧洲战事进展太快
Meanwhile, events in Europe
were moving so fast
以至国内的人很难跟踪动态
it was hard for the people
back home to keep track.
在长驱直入柏林的最后一程中
On the final
lap of their drive on Berlin,
俄♥国♥♥军♥队把德军打得晕头转向
Russian troops send
the Germans reeling.
4月25日美军和苏军在
On April 25, American
and Soviet forces linked up
易北河上的托尔高会师
at Torgau on the Elbe River.
德国被一分为二
Germany had been cut in half.
第二天苏联军队开始进攻柏林城
The next day, Soviet troops
began assaulting Berlin itself.
4月30日早晨
On the morning of April 30,
俄♥国♥♥军♥队攻入德国国会大厦
Russian troops fought their way
into the Reichstag,
这是德国政♥权♥的象征
the symbol of German power.
距那里不到半英里远的废墟下
Less than half a mile away,
beneath the rubble,
阿道夫.希♥特♥勒♥和他最亲密的助手挤在地堡里
Adolf Hitler and his closest
aides huddled in their bunker.
那天下午希♥特♥勒♥指定卡尔.邓尼茨海军上将
That afternoon,
Hitler named Admiral Karl Donitz
接任他然后吞枪自尽
to succeed him,
then shot himself in the mouth.
现在只剩下他最狂热的
Only his most fanatical
followers
追随者还在继续战斗
now continued to fight on.
D日登陆那天早上艾森豪威尔像发传♥单♥那样
Eisenhower, on D-Day
morning, distributed to the troops
向部队发布一道命令每个人都读了
a general order, which is like a
handbill, and everybody read it
他说“我们要开始伟大的圣♥战♥”
and he said, "We are about to
embark upon the great crusade,"
保罗.福赛尔步兵
我们已经为此准备了好几个月等等
which we'd been preparing
for for many months, etc.
一开始我们没人相信
Now, at first none of us
could believe
这跟圣♥战♥有什么关系因为我们玩骰子
it was anything like a crusade,
because we were playing dice
我们整天想着女人
and we were thinking about girls
all the time
想尽办法喝酒等等
and getting as drunk
as possible and so forth.
这不像一场圣♥战♥
It wasn't like a crusade.
这里面没有宗教因素
There was no religious
dimension to it whatever.
当他们最终穿越法国进入德国
When they finally got across
France and into Germany
看到德国的死亡集中营
and saw the German
death camps...
他们意识到他们已经..
they realized that they had...
参与了类似圣♥战♥的事业
been engaged
in something like a crusade,
尽管没人这么说
although none of them
called it that.
这一切对于我们开始有了某种意义
And it all began to make
a kind of sense to us.
我不确定这有什么好处
I'm not sure
that made it any better.
这也许会更糟
It may have made it worse.
看到战争实际上是为了
To see that it was
actually conducted
捍卫某种崇高思想而进行的
in defense of some noble idea.
之前一年夏天当红军
As the Red Army had
moved through Eastern Europe
越过东欧
the previous summer,
在波兰的马丁尼克发现了
it had uncovered at Majdaneck,
in Poland,
第一个纳粹工业化暴行的证据
the first evidence of the Nazis'
industrialized barbarism.
数千人类的骨灰
The ashes of thousands
of human beings
在一个焚化场被发现
were found in a crematorium.
美国和英国轻描淡写的加以报道
The American and British press
played it down,
断定苏联在夸大其词
assuming the Soviets
were exaggerating.
认为即便是纳粹也不会如此凶残
Not even the Nazis
could be so murderous.
到1945年底
By the end of April 1945,
一百多座集中营及其分支将被解放
more than a hundred camps and
sub-camps would be liberated.
奥斯维辛、特雷布林卡、拉文斯布吕克
Auschwitz, Treblinka,
Ravensbrück,
奥尔德鲁夫、布痕瓦尔德
Ohrdruf, Buchenwald,
伯根贝尔森、诺德豪森、达豪
Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen,
Dachau.
5月5日美军第11装甲师先遣队
On May 5, advance patrols of the
American 11th Armored Division
到达奥地利的毛特豪森
came upon Mauthausen in Austria.
在那里他们发现了11万多名
There they found
more than 110,000
绝望的被称为“第三帝国的敌人”的
desperate so-called
"enemies of the Reich,"
男人、女人和儿童被监禁在铁丝网后面
men, women and children
confined behind barbed wire.
很多人虚弱到无法站立
Many were too weak to stand.
萨克拉门托的二等兵伯内特.米勒在那里
Private Burnett Miller
of Sacramento was there
看到了这一切
and saw it all.
他们打出一些标语
And they had put some signs out,
“欢迎美军你们救了我们”
"Welcome Americans,
you've saved us"
诸如此类的..
and things like this, and...
伯内特.米勒加州萨克拉门托
我们包围了那个集中营
we surrounded the camp
那里有一大堆
and then, uh,
there was a surge of people
身体状况不错的人在乞食
who were in fairly good
condition begging for food,
我们把随身带的食物给他们
and we were giving them
what food we had,
压缩食品
concentrated food,
某些情况下他们的身体承受不了
and in some cases
it overwhelmed their systems
竟把他们害死了
and actually killed them.
我断定我们要对
I'm sure we were responsible
数百人的死亡负责
for the deaths
of several hundred people
就是因为给了他们压缩食品
just by feeding them
concentrated food.
我们下到地下室那里有一些巨大的炉子
We went down in the basement and
there were these big furnaces,
那里像是堆满了木柴
and it looked like cordwood
piled around
都是僵硬的尸体..
and they were bodies in rigor
mortis that they were...
准备送进这些大炉子焚烧
had been preparing to burn
in these big furnaces.
进了其他兵营的战友
And the fellows that went
into the other barracks
离开后很震惊一些人吐得非常厉害
came away just shocked,
some of them very, very sick.
在医院那里有人奄奄一息
The hospital there,
people dying just thick
有人无法从床铺下来
and people couldn't get out
of their bunks
有人情况很糟
and people
in terrible condition.
后来发现有一条大沟
And then later there was
a big trench,
里面填满了尸体
and it was filled with bodies.
有些是快死的有些因为想偷食物
Some were dying,
some were trying to steal food
看守们分散在各处
and, uh, the, the guards
were dispersed all over and we,
我们确实看到一名看守进了一间屋子
we actually saw a guard move
into a house
我们跟进去他是一名长官
and we chased him in,
and he was an officer.
那里囚犯们把他五马分尸
And the prisoners who were there
tore him apart,
当场把他杀死了
just killed him right there.
我们住在毛特豪森
We lived in Mauthausen,
那是一个恬美的奥地利河畔小镇
which was an idyllic little
Austrian town on the river,
但你能在镇子上闻到集中营的气味
but you could smell the camp
in town.
所有的村民自然都说他们不知道
And all the villagers of course
said they didn't know anything
关于集中营的任何事情当地牧师说
about the camp,
and the local priest said
他也不知道集中营的任何事