December Share with Email, opens mail client There is no way out, nor will there be a way out, of the cauldron. In addition, these records may include the soldier's age, birthplace, residence, occupation, and physical description as well as the names of family members. Portion of the testimony of captured Captain Kurt Mandelhelm, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 518th Infantry Regiment of the 295th Infantry Division, and his adjutant, Lieutenant Karl Gottschaldt, January 15, 1943: . . In just the last two days, our battalion has lost 60 killed, injured and frostbitten men; more than 30 men have escaped; there is only enough ammunition to last until evening; the soldiers have not eaten at all in three days, and many of them have frostbitten feet. Who would have thought three months ago that instead of the joy of victory we would have to endure such sacrifice and torture, the end of which is nowhere in sight? by Oleg Grigoryev 21 Aug 2003, 22:48, Return to Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes. The elevator is occupied not by men but by devils that no flames or bullets can destroy. North Africa, the Nazis invade France (again), the Wehrmacht in big trouble in the Caucasus and further up north at Stalingrad. Russian cannon and machine-guns are firing out of the burning city. Decades later, Prof. Jochen Hellbeck became the first historian to read their stories. " Can you talk about the nature of the violence? The soldiers are calling Stalingrad the mass grave of the Wehrmacht [German army]. . There are barely 30 men in the company. Our regiment is attacking the Barrikady settlement. But the army resisted this overt intrusion of the political into the military realm. . The commander has congratulated us on our victory. .. Making up for colossal losses in people, equipment and ammunition sustained by the German armed forces as a result of the perishing of the 6th Army will require huge effort and a lot of time. . transport units to the infantry are as good as sentenced to death. , updated According to entries from the diary of a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian soldiers defending Artemivsk do not want to go on the attack and do not understand what the command wants from them. What was the meaning of defeat for the Germans? They evidently decided to bury us in this All run away again. Megenburg. . We are all by Christmas. ', As the Germans advanced towards Leningrad (St Petersburg) in July 1941, the young officer is convinced of the Nazis' goal to end Bolshevism, calling the local population a 'big herd of submissive cattle.'. A Soviet soldier waving the Red Banner over the central plaza of Stalingrad in 1943. . https://cbweaver.wikispaces.com/file/view/Stalingrad+Primary+Accounts.pdf, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. days. Preached incessantly and targeting every recruit, it was made up of accessible concepts with an enormous emotional charge: love for the homeland and hatred of the enemy. He was wounded, but asserted that the Russians would fight for Stalingrad to the last round. At the time of the invasion German combat effectiveness had reached its peak and the forces invading Russia represented the best it had to offer. Thats what everyone is saying. The Battle of Stalingrad was amongst the bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of . Box office. 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'I shot him myself. ', He went on: 'Some of the gunned down Russians in front are still moving. 4 pages, ebook First published January 1, 1942 Book details & editions About the author William Hoffman A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. In this cauldron, 22 divisions and more than 160 separate The company commander says the Russian troops are completely broken, and cannot hold out any longer. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. 16:56 GMT 17 Jun 2021. Till now i only know the "stern"-article said, but i dont have the impression that its only ment for german soldiers, thats only what the media makes out of it, i think it just shows what war makes out of man, no matter what nationality they are. . The violence and the horror during the fighting for Stalingrad were ferocious. But now we have to roam around this horrible Russia, and for what? commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 518th Infantry Regiment of the 295th . a magpie and cooked it. Victory is not far away. Every soldier sees himself as a condemned man. 44111, dated November 18, 1942 to his brother: . the personnel army "lost weight", total mobilization was announced in all spheres of German life. Ironically, Stalins death and demise [in 1953] dealt another blow to the defenders of Stalingrad. They only differed in their interpretations of this resistance. . . August 27.A continuous cannonade on all sides.We are slowly advancing.Less than twenty miles to go to Stalingrad.In the day-time we can see the smoke of fires, at nighttime the bright glow. Hitler remarked that with the 6th Army, he "could storm the Heavens". They quickly encircled an entire German army, more than 220,000 soldiers. Something incomprehensible is, in fact, going on. The most important condition for a soldier to join the party was not doctrinal knowledge, say, the ability to recite party textbooks, but proof that the soldier had killed Germans. By the end he is starving to death as is everyone around him. It is pure hell here. . . In the north our troops capture a part of Stalingrad and reach theVolga, but in the south the doomed divisions are continuing to resist bitterly. When we got to Stalingrad, there were 140 of us, but by September 1, after two weeks of battle, only 16 remained. Being German, I am of course also susceptible to Stalingrads towering place in German collective memory. We are advancing towards Stalingrad along the railway line. By that time, he had already shot 60 enemy soldiers; that number would reach 242 by the end of the battle. Hetti, I have already cut up four dogs, yet my comrades cant eat their fill. September 18. Further along the road he encountered more Russian prisoners of war (PoWs) who had been summarily executed by their German captors. An excerpt from a letter of soldier Otto Zechtig, 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 227th Infantry Regiment of the 100th Light Infantry Division, no. I found this post in the history subreddit on, you guessed it, reddit. He expects victory of us. Only lets get it over. Nov. 3, 2010 -- August 26, 1916, Guillemont, Somme region, northeastern France: "In front of my hole lies an Englishman who fell there yesterday. Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts : German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns by Gregory, Don A., Gehlen, William R. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. September 8. He was so disillusioned that he predicted that Germany would lose the Second World War by as early as December 1941. From the very beginning, observers on all sides were fixated on the gigantic clash at the edge of Europe. . We are apparently going to attack the factories, the chimneys of which we can see clearly. With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Thomas Kretschmann. Thesefragmentsfrom letters, diary entries and testimonials were first published in File.rf in Russian. . Yesterday we got vodka. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. The above diary entry comes from Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 94th Infantry Division of the German Sixth Army. Just weeks before, in response to the Germans rapid advance toward Stalingrad, Stalin had issued the Not A Step Back order that forbade his soldiers to retreat under any circumstances. . Stalin's order no. 140 of us, but by September 1, after two weeks of battle, only 16 remained. After marching through the night we have established ourselves in a shrubcovered gully. We killed thousands of Russians and Jews with wives and When, as part of the campaign to fight Stalins cult of personality, his city was renamed Volgograd in 1961, many veterans objected: With Stalingrad gone, they felt written out of history as well. In July 1942, the Germans resumed their advance into the U.S.S.R. begun the previous summer, seeking to conquer Stalingrad, a vital transportation center located on the Volga River. December 14.Everybody is racked with hunger. 173.236.223.132 September 20. . .. . . Realizing that the Sixth Army, exhausted and short of weapons, ammunition, food, and medical supplies, faced annihilation, German generals pleaded in vain with Hitler to permit withdrawal before the Russians closed the ring. The testimonies were too truthful and multifaceted for their times, and Stalin forbade their publication, not least because he alone claimed full credit for the victory at Stalingrad. . If fate allows it, someday I will tell you about it. Mr Snow said: 'We have been searching to find a way to do this conflict justice, to get beyond the statistics, the tens of millions killed, wounded and brutalised and tell the story of what it was actually like. Harry Howard For Mailonline The book became a bibliographic rarity. . August 12. In the last few days our battalion has several times tried to attack the Russian positions, . . . Those who are merely wounded are lucky; they will doubtless be at home and celebrate victory with their families. . trenches and bunkers. around us. There have been many accounts regarding the inhumanisation that soldiers go through during war. The letters of the German soldiers are imbued with frankness, Hitler commanded General Friedrich Paulus to, stand firm with his Sixth Army and forbade attempts to, break out of the encirclement. A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier with a PPSh-41, 1943. General Friedrich Paulus, the commander of the 6th Army, was ordered to capture Stalingrad, a city that controlled the rail and waterway communications of southern Russia. The battle for the elevator is still going on. 'It is just awful. During the most ferocious battle in human history, Soviet historians interviewed over 200 Red Army soldiers about the 1943 fighting that helped seal Nazi Germany's fate. Hitler saw the Soviet Union as his natural enemy and aimed to destroy its armies, capture its vast economic resources and enslave its population. All our sacrifices would have been in vain.'. The testimonies were too truthful and multifaceted for their times, and Stalin forbade their publication, not least because he alone claimed full credit for the victory at Stalingrad. . Recently, the Orthodox Church has incorporated Stalingrad into its prayers, even though the church was hardly present during the battle itself. Lots of wounded are being brought by. The Fiihrer knows where the Russians weak point is. August 10. . If we lose this war, theyll take revenge on us for We havent eaten or slept in three They resonate with the din of the battlefield, and violence is everywhere in the picture. While it would be more than another year before the Red Army liberated the death camps in Poland, the Battle of Stalingrad disrupted the Nazi death machine. I own many books about WW2; the personal accounts are always the best. Can it be that it is not true about Manstein? He believed that he needed the east in order to win the war and secure the long-term prosperity of his county. A question looms before us: what should be done? I briefly jump onto the tank to look at Weigand. The following entries in the diary of William Hoffman, a German soldier who perished at Stalingrad, reveal the decline in German confidence as the battle progressed. turned dramatically in 1942. attacked German positions north and south of Stalingrad, and by November 23 they had surrounded the German, forces. 'Written during the fighting, on long marches and often after terribly gut-wrenching events, Sander's diaries offer a frank and honest assessment of the German situation in 1941 and the unforgiving nature of war on the Eastern Front. . He was part of 6th Army at Stalingrad. Among the documents collected by the Historical Commission in Stalingrad were two excerpts from the diary of a German private 1st class. By December 21, 1941, when the Red Army had turned the tide of the German advance and the invaders were enduring the harsh conditions of the Russian winter, Leutnant Sander started to doubt the Nazi cause. The YouTube channel is a generally reputable source but this fact made me skeptical. Daniel, commander of the German 376th Infantry Division. Leutnant Friedrich Sander lost faith in the German war machine after cracking during the brutal Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began in June 1941. . an effort to communicate impressions to relatives, an effort to share the truth We dont have a single officer, and the non-commissioned officer had to take over the command of the division. 'Both legs are only attached to the body by thin strips of sinew and flesh. by Weiss Wurst 21 Aug 2003, 18:01, Post . Germans and Russians battled with dogged ferocity over every part of the city; 99 percent of Stalingrad was reduced to rubble. Throughout fall 1942, the Soviet press cited newspapers from places ranging from Egypt to India and Canada that extolled the heroism of Stalingrads defenders. September 11 . Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942-February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. The first months of the operation were a success for Nazi troops, who made it to within 15 miles of Moscow before a Soviet counter-offensive pushed them back from December 1941. They also wanted to create an archival record for posterity. . October 5. injured and frostbitten men; more than 30 men have escaped; there is only strength of the Red Army. Stalingrad is a grave for the German soldiers. 'He has started to sing with a slurring voice, so great is his pain. . We are on hunger rations and waiting for the rescue that the Fuhrer promised. 10521 V, to Hetti Kaminskaya, December 29, 1942. .. . October 27.Our troops have captured the whole of the Barrikady factory, but we cannot break through to theVolga. Yes, leading generals of the Stalingrad battle, like Chuikov, were able to publish accounts of their role in the battle, but they carefully omitted any reference to executions within the Red Army. This could not fail to influence our decision. will there be a way out, of the cauldron. Its a happy thought that the end of the war is getting nearer. He wrote of the terrible injuries suffered by two men in particular. We Why is that? In September 1942, German lieutenant colonel Friedrich Roske declared himself "the master of the centre of Stalingrad" after his troops had smashed their way into the heart of the city. We are preparing for a decisive attack. This is nothing new. From a letter from Senior Lance Corporal Arno Bitz of the Hailed as the single largest confrontation of the war, the battle involved nearly 2.2 million military personnel, with around 1.8-2 million were killed, wounded, or captured. The devastating Panzer division was also deployed - seventeen in total. The Nazi regimes first response after the successful Soviet encirclement in November was denial. This could not fail to influence our decision. As the battle wore on, many read it as an indication that Germany would lose the war. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 'His voice unbiased by the horrors that were to come.'. Get the week's best stories straight to your inbox. Note that Holocaust denial is not allowed. Maj. Gen. Ivan Burmakov and Lt. Col. Leonid Vinokur, two of the Russian officers interviewed after the Battle of Stalingrad. The most notable account used in both is the brutal six-day long battle between 16 and 22 September 1942 over a grain elevator where, according to him, only 40 Russian soldiers (he refers to them as "devils") were found dead in the elevator at the end of the engagement, while his battalion in comparison, suffered disastrously heavy losses. . German and other Axis losses in the battle of Stalingrad amounted to over 800,000 casualties. From 1942 to 1945, they interviewed close to 5,000 people most of them soldiers, but also partisans, civilians who worked in the war economy or fought in the underground, and Soviet citizens who had survived Nazi occupation. This news brought hope to the soldiers hearts. On February2, 1943, the remnants of the Sixth Army surrendered. Damn this Stalingrad! January 5. 6. by Whisper 21 Aug 2003, 22:23, Post Then aged 24, he recalled the moment he and his colleagues stood around to listen to Adolf Hitler's address at the start of the operation that would result in almost one million deaths. "It is pure hell here." the rest were wounded and killed. I just want to scream it all away. . The German 6th Army (300 000 men) was formed at the inception of Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union). Lieutenant Kraus was killed yesterday, and there is no company commander. It includes the source in the post and a link to an imgur post with the translated diary in. On November 8, Hitler announced that the German Sixth Army had taken Sta- lingrad, but in fact, on November 19 and 20, the Soviets attacked German positions north and south of Stalingrad, and by November 23 they had surrounded the German forces. Reese's account shows how the Nazi war machine corrupted ordinary people. December 21.We are waiting for the order, but for some reason or other it has been a long time coming. From a letter from Senior Lance Corporal Joseph Tzimach, no. The Germans were being rounded up prior to marched to death. He wrote them throughout the battle of Stalingrad. One day I shot The Nazi's loss at Stalingrad was the turning point in the war and Zaitsev played a key role in demoralising the Germans which lead to their ultimate defeat. . By the spring of 1943, even Hitler. We are encircled. . . . Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/22mHD Himmler was aware that the time of reckoning for Germany was drawing near. Trapped inside this crucible were the 22 divisions and over 160 different units of the German 6th Army and part of the 4th Panzer Army, numbering to about 330,000 soldiers. will tell you about it. . October 10. Jochen Hellbeck is a leading historian of the Soviet period who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey. After the Stalingrad campaign, Hitler ordered that Soviet-style political officers the so-called commissars be introduced into the Wehrmacht. Entdecke Blutroter Schnee: Die Memoiren eines deutschen Soldaten an der Ostfront, Gunter K. in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! 'This is the first instalment. 'His spine is broken, and he is totally paralysed. . But even such Nazi ideological work paled against the systematic, communist, political conditioning that took place in the Red Army from the hour the Germans attacked in 1941. If in the morning we manage to advance 20meters, in the evening the Russians throw us backward. While it would be more than another year before the Red Army liberated the death camps in Poland, the Battle of Stalingrad disrupted the Nazi death machine. morning we manage to advance 20 metres, in the evening the Russians throw us But what I find most striking about the memory of Stalingrad is how little, by comparison, it seems to affect state leaders and publics outside of Russia. . Why Do Some People Look Totally Different In Pictures Than In Real Life? . . God, let it be! 27800, to his parents, November 20, 1942. . Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive against the Germans arrayed at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942. August 23. Post His fascinating 2015 book, Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich, and the Battle that Changed World History (PublicAffairs; also available in German, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, and Chinese editions), tells the story of this battle from the Soviet side. But it is for The problem with this memory is its insular nature: Most existing depictions of the battle that you can read in Germany or other Western countries tell the story predominantly from a German viewpoint. October 5, 1942.<br>Our battalion finally reached the Volga. We have never been through anything like this. Our regiment has been ordered to attack Sadovaya station-thats nearly in Stalingrad. decided to give ourselves up to capture in order to save our soldiers lives. The ruthlessness of the German advance was borne out on June 27, 1941, when his crew spotted a Russian soldier who played dead before opening fire on the passing German infantry. On the morning of January 10 we read a pamphlet that contained an ultimatum. what should be done? Then the terrible struggles in . Performance & security by Cloudflare. We paid dearly for our victory. in the vicinity of Stalingrad will have a major influence on how the war beautiful Verdun, with new weapons. All rights reserved by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Clothing freezes on our bodies. There are barely The Russians lauded the everyday heroism of their troops, while the Germans cast the Soviet soldiers as subhuman beings who fought cruelly and without any respect for life even their own. . Yet Nazi leaders could not stay silent about the rout of the Sixth Army, which Hitler had once declared could storm the heavens. The majority of the writings date from November We stay in our cellar; you cant go out into the street. In the interviews I was surprised to discover the source of this hatred. Diary of a German Soldier William Hoffman 4.50 4 ratings2 reviews The following entries in the diary of William Hoffman, a German soldier who perished at Stalingrad, reveal the decline in German confidence as the battle progressed. Her research deals with World War II, gender and the history of psychology in the 20th century. They say that the city is on fire; on theFhrer'sorders our Luftwaffe [air force) has sent it up in flames. . BERLIN: A guilt-ridden account of an ordinary German soldier's experiences in World War two is countering a recent trend among historians to portray Germans as victims of the war. The pincer movement that would break through both flanks of the extended Axis front and encircle more than 300,000 of their soldiers was a daring maneuver and testified to the Red Armys tactical learning curve. August 25, 1942. . December 25.The Russian radio has announced the defeat of Manstein. Privacy Policy. The military history YouTube channel The Armchair Historian opens their episode on the Battle of Stalingrad with the line "The average lifespan of a soldier in Stalingrad was just 24 hours.". From time to time mines explode The Russian victory was a major turning point in the war. The most informative letters were published in 1944 by the Entries from the diary of Officer F. P. of the 8th Light Small-Arms Force of the 212th Regiment: . We had no peace all night from the Russian artillery and aero planes. Military church records [Kirchenbcher]. . . 28329 D, dated December 29, 1942 to hisfiance: . . In the blocks captured two days ago Russian soldiers appeared from somewhere or other and fighting has flared up with fresh vigour. . By the time it was realized that the army could not be relieved by outside forces it was too late, while few of the Germans made . Over the next three months, the Red Army began to squeeze the life out of them. Before entering Stalingrad with troops and tanks, the Germans began with a two-week long carpet-bombing campaign that burned and razed much of the cityscape and took 40,000 lives. Up to then, the German army had seen victory after victory and Hoffman felt confident they could conquer Stalingrad and then the rest of Russia. sustained by the German armed forces as a result of the perishing of the 6th How wrong they are. .. .. It was the most powerful formation of the whole 'Heer' (German Army). themselves. Does that get to you? At that time A Russian counteroffensive in November trapped the German Sixth Army. .. Diary Of A German Soldier Fighting In Stalingrad February 6, 2020Leave a Comment In July 1942, the Germans resumed their advance into the U.S.S.R. begun the previous summer, seeking to conquer Stalingrad, a vital transportation center located on the Volga River. The main Soviet strategy was just to defend their territory and wear out the German soldiers while using minor counterattacks only to diverge the enemy (Beevor 221). They say that the city is on fire; on the Fiihrers orders our Luftwaffe [air force] has sent it up in flames. The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. And when will Hitler take any decisive steps to free our armies from encirclement? His commitment was so strong that he sent a huge number of troops to carry out the invasion. 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