In all kinds of "divine dramas", you can always see science fiction plots that can defeat thousands of people with only one person. But in fact, such a feat is unlikely to be achieved. Because even if the equipment gap between the two warring sides is large, even if they occupy the natural danger of having the greatest advantage, only one person cannot eliminate thousands of people. But during World War II, such an unscientific scene appeared in France.
There was an unbelievable "myth" circulating on the battlefields of Europe at that time, that is, a German soldier destroyed thousands of enemy troops in the Battle of Normandy with only one man and a machine gun. What really happened then that would have created the "unscientific myth" of a German wiping out thousands of enemies?
Travel back in time to June 1944, when the Allies chose to land in Normandy, France, in order to completely crush the Germans on the Battlefield in Europe. It was during the Normandy landings that there was an extremely unscientific war and myth. The parties were Hein Severo, a German soldier ordered to snipe the Allies, and 8,000 American soldiers who had forcibly landed.
According to postwar survivors, in the early morning of June 6, a large number of Allied troops forcibly landed near Normandy, and a U.S. army of about 8,000 men landed on Omaha Beach. Just as the U.S. troops landed in the knee-deep sea, Severo's superiors issued an order to fire.
Just as it was landing, Severo pulled the machine gun's plate and fired wildly at the landing Americans. Severo and some European media and Germans recalled that Severo fired for 9 hours without interruption, directly killing 12,000 rounds of ammunition.
The only time to stop firing was because of the need to replace the heavily heated machine barrel. German survivors said the hot barrel of the machine gun was thrown to the ground nearby, immediately igniting all the combustible materials in the vicinity. In this high-intensity machine gun fire, thousands of American soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and even the sea water was completely stained red.
During the war, Severo, who had completely depleted the machine gun's bullets, took up his rifle and shot more than 400 times, eliminating many American soldiers. It wasn't until an American soldier broke through to the vicinity of the bunker that Severo's position was breached. By this time, 4,184 U.S. troops had fallen.
All of the above is the content of German journalists and German media reports, and even calls Severo the "beast of Omaha Beach" of a thousand enemies. But in fact, such a situation cannot happen at all. First of all, there were only 8,000 American troops landing at that time, why did half of the American soldiers have to land near Sephiro.
Secondly, there were 15 bunkers near the beach at that time, and if Severo alone eliminated 4184 American soldiers, what were the other bunkers doing, were they watching war movies?
With such doubts in mind, a reporter interviewed survivors of the Battle of Omaha Beach and learned that Severo had not eliminated so many American soldiers at all. The reason why the legend of Severo alone wiping out thousands of American soldiers was because of the propaganda of German journalists and the media.
Germany, which had exposed the decline of the war at the time and needed to mobilize the enthusiasm of all soldiers, let the media hype an "unscientific war hero" to encourage the remaining German soldiers to resist, but Sephiro himself admitted that although there could not be 4,000 people, at least 1,000 people fell under his gun.