He participated in the Japan and World War I, during World War II he was captured in 1941 year, during the retreat, He was captured by the Germans in the unconscious on the battlefield. Four years of war, he was transferred almost all of the major Nazi concentration camp, repeatedly received offers to cooperate.
Karbysheva reputation was high at home: as a military officer even Czarist Russia, and then flawless Soviet general, German propaganda for it would be very tasty traitor. But in spite of all the torture, Karbyshev spat in the face of the Nazis.
Despite his age, He was one of the most active leaders of the camp resistance movement. Night 18 February 1945 at the Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria), among other prisoners (about 500 human), It was after the brutal torture doused with water in the cold and died. body D. M. Karbysheva were burned in ovens at Mauthausen.
AT 1946 , the martyr received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. Karbyshev - I come-in the image of this Russian officer.
Elena Milёhina
