As the German soldiers were too busy trying to flee the Soviet encirclement to pursue the survivors hiding in the forest and grain fields, while tending to the wounded, German soldiers approached the dugout.

She defended it for as long as she could despite being heavily outnumbered.

When the first three German soldiers ran up to the dugout, she opened fire with a machine gun, killing them.

When more attackers approached, she opened additional fire, determined to fight until her last breath or until she ran out of ammunition.

This was exactly what happened, and the brave soldier finally found herself with no more weapons to use.

After running out of grenades to throw at her attackers, she was left defenseless as two German soldiers entered the dugout from behind and threw their grenades down, injuring her before entering.

The Germans were so enraged and possibly fearful that they first opened fire against the injured soldiers lying around the dugout, killing them without mercy.

They left Baram Zina for last, dragging her out by her hair before brutally torturing her with endless cruelty.

The soldiers stabbed Baram Zina and mutilated her with bayonets while she loudly swore that they would pay for their crimes.

She was brutally beaten with the butts of German rifles until she was barely alive.

It was at this moment that one of the Germans had the idea of shooting her in the head with an anti-tank rifle intended to pierce several inches of steel.

She was killed at point blank, and her head and body were practically unrecognizable.

When the rest of her battalion found her the next morning, they could not believe the malice that went into torturing and murdering their brave comrade.

Soviet women at camps for prisoners of war.

Baram Zina’s cavalry, however, was actually short in comparison.

Listen to what other Soviet women had to endure during World War II, particularly in the concentration camps and prisoner of war camps along Germany and Poland.

The punishments and tortures were a daily occurrence.

Soviet prisoners of war were treated differently in concentration camps.

For example, they were the first ones to be tattooed with numbers in Auschwitz.

This was because Soviet soldiers frequently attempted to escape from the camp.

The largest mass escape attempt occurred in Auschwitz on November 6th, 1942, when several dozen of them made a run for it.

As it became dark, many of them were caught immediately and led back to the camp.

Only a few succeeded.

The others were tracked down, returned to Auschwitz, and shot.

The Soviets had a reputation for disrupting the order in the camps, so Heinrich Himmler himself ordered in 1941 the immediate execution of captured Soviet commissars and suspicious civilian political functionaries.

More than 80% of frontline German divisions fighting on the Eastern front carried out this illegal order, shooting an estimated 4,000 to 10,000 commissars.

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