2. This Hero’s Account Was Disbelieved at First – Until His Comrades Saw With Their Own Eyes the Carnage He Had Caused
After slaughtering over a score of Nazis, Dmitry Ovcharenko eventually grew tired of chasing the fleeing enemy soldiers with an ax. So the exhausted hero returned to his cart, whose surroundings were now a field of carnage.
He collected all the maps and documents and weapons of the dead Germans, loaded them in the cart, and delivered them to the 389th Regiment’s HQ. When he explained what had happened, Ovcharenko was not believed at first – which is not surprising, considering just how extraordinary his actions had been. He was finally believed when his comrades inspected the scene of his one-man rampage, and saw with their own eyes the gruesome evidence scattered all over the place.