乌克兰的哀歌(英中对照)

古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。

乌克兰的哀歌
When Hitler launched his invasion of Ukraine in 1941, the German soldiers were pleasantly surprised to find that they were regarded by the Ukrainians as liberators from the communist yoke of Moscow, and were welcomed with flowers or the traditional Ukrainian bread and salt of hospitality.Proof of the Ukrainian's abhorrence of communism is the fact that in the 1941 Battle of Kiev a total of 665,000 soldiers were captured by the Germans out of a Soviet Red Army of 677,085. Unfortunately for these men, who surrendered so willingly, Nazi German racist plans called for their destruction, so they were starved to death or died of exposure in open-air concentration camps in the winter of 1941-42.To the Nazis, the Ukrainians, like the Jews, were"subhumans".
一九四一年希特勒进侵乌克兰，乌克兰人视德军为打破莫斯科共产枷锁的解放之师，或奉以鲜花，或奉以乌克兰传统上象征欢迎佳客的面包和盐，令德军既感意外，也觉高兴。乌克兰人对共产党之痛恨，见于一九四一年基辅之役：一支六十七万七千零八十五人的苏联红军，有六十六万五千人为德军俘虏。这些人都乐意投降，可惜纳粹德国的种族计划却要他们灭亡，于是有些被活活饿死，有些则被囚露天集中营，在一九四一到四二年的冬天。避寒无所，活活冻死。对纳粹党来说，乌克兰人和犹太人一样，是「下等人类」。