. What is also remarkable is how the Soviet military command was able to secretly deploy an army of 1 million soldiers along these flanks in the weeks leading up to the operation. November 19. But the regime took further steps: Visiting the Treblinka death camp in eastern Poland just one month after the defeat at Stalingrad, Heinrich Himmler ordered the exhumation and cremation of all the bodies of the 700,000 Jews who had been killed there. Dozhd TV channel taken off air in some markets, January 'They have only recently been discovered, clearly they were not meant to be seen by anyone as much of the content could have gotten the author into severe trouble.'. 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. Infantry Division, and his adjutant, Lieutenant Karl Gottschaldt, January 15, As Stalingrad was about to fall into German hands in September 1942, the Red Army came up with a plan for a counter-attack that would eventually smash the enemy. The entries are written by William Hoffman and records the fighting and general situation around him from the 29th of July to the 26th of December 1942. What Was It Like To Be Shipped To A Concentration Camp? . By 1945, Stalin made sure that official publications referred to him as the sole architect of Soviet victory over fascism. children around Kiev and Kharkov. On June 4, at the Battle of Midway, Island, American planes destroyed all four of the attacking, Japanese aircraft carriers and established American naval. 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. . This is worse than any torture. However, many German military records provide very few details about individuals other than those who served as officers. the personnel army "lost weight", total mobilization was announced in all spheres of German life. . My nerves can't take any more.'. Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts: German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns by Don A. Gregory; William R. Gehlen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Splendid news-north of Stalingrad our troops have reached theVolga and captured part of the city. German soldiers and officers drink water at Stalingrad. If in the morning we manage to advance 20meters, in the evening the Russians throw us backward. Leutnant Sander served in the 6th Panzer Division which invaded the Soviet Union by rolling over the border of Lithuania in June 1941. . 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. Winter privations and Soviet, attacks, however, forced the Germans to surrender on, February 2, 1943 (see the box above). The battle is remembered for ferocious street fighting. If we lose this war, theyll take revenge on us for All run away again. The horses have already been eaten. December We decided to give ourselves up to capture in order to save our soldiers lives. . beautiful Verdun, with new weapons. The letters and diary entries were direct and animated testimonials of the Battle of Stalingrad from the front lines, a long way off from the trenches and the bunkers. From time to time mines explode around us. People who are now sent from . My book shows in great detail how Red Army soldiers were inducted into the Communist Party. Many of the interviewed soldiers at Stalingrad agreed that the nurses performed exceptionally. The remarkable 'lost' diaries of German tank commander Leutnant Friedrich Sander, who went from being a hardened Nazi to a broken soldier in just a few weeks of fighting in the Second World War . Our battalion is fighting in the suburbs of Stalingrad. The YouTube channel is a generally reputable source but this fact made me skeptical. Our men are being killed not only in the firing line, but in the rear, in buildings we have already occupied. Large-scale help is coming up for us, and the Russians will be beaten. 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. In fact for some people, its essential that they become inhuman and numb to the daily horror that surrounds them, to block out the madness that threatens to engulf all the time. Dr. Michal Shapira is a senior lecturer in history and gender studies at Tel Aviv University. 28329 D, dated December 29, 1942 to hisfiance: . .. . . 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. North Africa, the Nazis invade France (again), the Wehrmacht in big trouble in the Caucasus and further up north at Stalingrad. .. Fritz is telling me about a conversation he heard: the soldiers prefer to January 5. . Among the last Wehrmacht soldiers to leave Stalingrad by air were a group of 18 wounded and sick Croat legionnaires, including Lt. Barievi, who were flown out by Luftwaffe pilots and were landed on the last serviceable German airfield at Staljingradskaja near the 369th's artillery section positions on the night of 22 to 23 January 1943. Every day I write two or three reports about them. Viktor Nekrasov's novella "In the trenches of Stalingrad" came out to acclaim in 1946, and 10 years later he was able to make a humanistic, de-heroizing screenplay out of it. The Russians are not men, but some kind of cast-iron creatures; they never get tired and are not afraid of fire. by Odessa2 21 Aug 2003, 19:09, Post We have never been through anything like this. . . How and with what are we going to fill our empty stomachs, which, apart from 3%-7 ozs of bread, receive virtually nothing at all? We are apparently going to attack the factories, the chimneys of which we can see clearly. 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. . turned dramatically in 1942. This is simply unbelievable. contained an ultimatum. 'And if we fail to stop them, then this will be the beginning of the end. We are slowly advancing. . sustained by the German armed forces as a result of the perishing of the 6th 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. On this sector also the Russians wont let you lift your head. 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. This fightback, coupled with the fact that the Germans were not prepared for the horrendous conditions of the Russian winter, led to Nazi forces retreating westwards from late 1941 onwards. Fragment of Lieutenant General Alexander von Daniels testimony, commander of the German 376th Infantry Division: . You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. He believed that he needed the east in order to win the war and secure the long-term prosperity of his county. At 11 o'clock, Russian tanks and Katyusha attack us. strength of the Red Army. In the last few days our battalion has several times tried to attack the Russian positions, . October 4. . days. . November 3. 'The diaries are so powerful, so vivid and so rich that interviews with historians, presenters and re-enactment are all unnecessary. September 8. . Megenburg. We . by Odessa2 21 Aug 2003, 19:03, Post . From the testimony of Lieutenant General Alexander von 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. September 22. Seventy-one year ago, February 2, 1943, theThe Battle of Stalingrad, finally ended. December 23.Still no orders. Does that get to you? Hetti, I have already cut up four dogs, yet my comrades cant eat their fill. 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. non-commissioned officer had to take over the command of the division. In the summer of 1942 Paulus advanced toward Stalingrad with 250,000 men, 500 tanks, 7,000 guns and mortars, and 25,000 horses. Also revealed in the new documentary are Leutnant Sander's unseen images of the doomed invasion. Its just terrible. . The Germans would never fully recover. 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. . .. . I want to scream. 'It is just awful. The Russians are throwing in their last forces, Captain Werner explained to me. They also wanted to create an archival record for posterity. . I would eat a cat; they say its meat is also tasty. Clothing freezes on our bodies. Frozen potatoes are the best meal, but toget them out of the ice-covered ground under fire from Russian bullets is not so easy. The Soviets delay Operation Uranus to get their troops in position to attack, encircle 6th Army. The above diary entry comes from Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 94th Infantry Division of the German Sixth Army. September 4.We are being sent northward along the front towards Stalingrad. Being German, I am of course also susceptible to Stalingrads towering place in German collective memory. A question looms before us: what should be done? hellish place once and for all. He wrote them throughout the battle of Stalingrad. At dawn on Jan. 31, 1943, the bloodiest battle of World War II came to an end for the top German commander in Stalingrad. . The interviews were recorded in Stalingrad, during the final stage of the battle and its immediate aftermath. All Rights Reserved From a letter from Senior Lance Corporal Arno Bitz of the . Source: Zelma/RIA Novosti. December 18.The officers today told the soldiers to be prepared for action. We killed thousands of Russians and Jews with wives and children around Kiev and Kharkov. That has a tremendous impact.. proceeds. 17189, dated November 13, 1942 to Private First Class Karl Weitzel: . 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. September 5. By 4 pages, ebook First published January 1, 1942 Book details & editions All are fleeing in panic. Red Army soldiers describe how they fought their way into the city center, blowing up basements and entire buildings filled with Germans after at least some of them refused to lay down their arms. enough ammunition to last until evening; the soldiers have not eaten at all in It follows a platoon of German Army soldiers transferred to the Eastern Front of World War II, where they find themselves fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad . November 18. 'This is how I see it at least. On her second day out on the battlefield, while dressing and recovering wounded soldiers, Novikova was killed. This morning outstanding soldiers were presented with decorations. 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). German intelligence did notice suspicious troop movements, but the German army command did not take these reports seriously, as it was convinced that the Soviets had run out of available human reserves. He expects victory of us. 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. Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941 with the aim of invading the Soviet Union to secure future German interests. You can scarcely breathe in the daytime: there is nowhere and no one to remove the bodies, so they are left there to rot. 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. November 10. Privacy Policy. Military church records [Kirchenbcher]. Our companys interpreter has interrogated a captured Russian officer. I believe that for Stalingrad the Fiihrer will decorate evenme.. . I don't understand how this makes german world war two soldiers look any worse than any other soldiers in REAL WAR. There are barely . December 21.We are waiting for the order, but for some reason or other it has been a long time coming. 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. . . What becomes very clear is the extent to which the Soviet defenders were driven by hatred toward the Germans. . . On the morning of January 10 we read a pamphlet that contained an ultimatum. My nerves can't take any more.'. In what way was it a battle that changed world history? Clothing freezes on the body. The defeat of the German troops in the vicinity of Stalingrad will have a major influence on how the war proceeds. The battle commenced in August 1942 and finally ended in February 1943 when the last of the German forces surrendered. . Shes expecting me home when victoryswon. Confessions of the Enemy. The print run was not specified, and the book was it says in the diary that Russian soldiers treated people just as savagely. Russian soldiers stood at the entrance to the basement of the. Ahead of us is either death or captivity. We are advancing towards Stalingrad along the railway line. The Russians inside are condemned men; the battalion commander says: The commissars have ordered those men to die in the elevator. If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this then none of our soldiers will get back toGermany. The violence and the horror during the fighting for Stalingrad were ferocious. . Everyone expects us home for Christmas. Box office. The devastating Panzer division was also deployed - seventeen in total. superiority in the Pacific. From the diary of Officer F. P. of the 8th Light Small-Arms January 15. . .. He wrote: 'I tell my men that this is about the reshaping of Europe, the absolute defeat of Bolshevism, the enemy of the people. He wrote of the terrible injuries suffered by two men in particular. On the morning of January 10 we read a pamphlet that Performance & security by Cloudflare. He was part of 6th Army at Stalingrad. . Our old soldiers have never experiencedsuch bitter fighting before. fiance, December 29, 1942. Diary of a German Soldier During Stalingrad. a magpie and cooked it. 27800, to his parents, November 20, 1942. After our attack the field was littered with dead. He wrote: 'That isn't a good idea when facing tank men like us - floor the accelerator, turn left and run over him. which both sides took severe losses. In just the last two days, our battalion has lost 60 killed, . . 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. September 13. 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. We marched all night and by dawn had reached Voroponovo Station. The Russian artillery at the other side of theVolgawont let you lift your head. . There is no way out, nor If they could only see what Stalingrad has done to our army. 44111, dated November 18, 1942 to his brother: . 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. Lieutenant Kraus was killed yesterday, and there is no company commander. There are barely 30 men in the company. A curse on this war! We go in a direction on Surovikino. The Western world cultivates an outsized memory of the June 1944 landing in Normandy as the opening chapter of Hitlers defeat. A soldier would crawl out of an occupied position only when the ground wans on fire under him and his clothes were smouldering. 'I myself alone counted 15 men who were lying in a ditch.'. 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. 87th Artillery Regiment of the 113th Infantry Division, no. Why is that? Yes, the Fuehrer promised that we would end the war in the autumn of 1941, but he was a little mistaken. . by Oleg Grigoryev 21 Aug 2003, 18:17, Post around us. . 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. Less than twenty miles to go to Stalingrad. December 25.The Russian radio has announced the defeat of Manstein. The interviews, as well as rare photographs and letters shared by the veterans, show how differently the battle is remembered on both sides. this was a good position from which to . After five months of unrelenting battle, the retreat of the Nazis became the turning point of World War II.. The stash showed how they tried to communicate their impressions to their loved ones, how they wanted them to see their situations as they fought in the Stalingrad region and how they see the Red Army. Let the generals and officers fight the war themselves. The commander has congratulated us on our victory. I then became curious about how these strivings compared to the Nazi German revolution and its version of the New Man. Stalingrad, as a culminating and prolonged clash between the two totalitarian regimes, seemed like the right place for this next study. . I see that the wiki article states he was killed, but I'm not sure I trust it. The Battle of Stalingrad was amongst the bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of . writings by captured soldiers. 'This is the first instalment. . . September 26. We attack on a daily basis. In the Battle of the Coral Sea, on May 78, 1942, American naval forces stopped the, Japanese advance and temporarily relieved Australia of, the threat of invasion. Then the terrible struggles in . .. On November 30 he described coming across the sight of eight partisan fighters, including two women, who had been hanged by the Germans. It may just be me, but every time people start to realize that maybe the Germans were not a race of butchers and that maybe Germans were also subjected to the horrors of total war, that something like this comes out of left field to paint them all as murdering scum again. Division, no. 'A wounded Russian was also lying there, still with his rifle in his hand. I found them in the archive of the Institute for Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His tone changes from exicted and hopeful to a darker tone toward the end. God protect me . . One day I shot a magpie and cooked it. The battalion is suffering heavy losses. . Together with our tank crews we have taken the southern part of the city and reached the Volga. Thats what everyone is saying. Can you talk about the nature of the violence? . , updated 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. October 3. They resonate with the din of the battlefield, and violence is everywhere in the picture. My question is, what happened to him? During that meeting, Lyolya Novikova was posthumously accepted into the Communist Party. Russian tanks pass us and attack from the flank and rear. Army will require huge effort and a lot of time. We can already see the smoking town. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. A bored and cold German soldier plays a game of "eenie-meenie-miny-moe", aiming at a group of children, most too young to even comprehend the danger. . Soon her home was destroyed in the . By the spring of 1943, even Hitler. While the German army was penetrating deeply into Russia, he believed that victory was not far away and dreamed of returning home with medals. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. . I had a letter from Elsa today. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Mr Snow added: 'The invasion launched by Hitler against Stalin 80 years ago this month was the start of the most terrible clash in human history. After the elevator was taken the Russians continued to defend themselves just as stubbornly. All our sacrifices would have been in vain.'. The 'We will live through the war in the east as he lived it.'. . August 2. . 44111, to his brother, November 18, 1942. Records from the diary of a German soldier who fought at Stalingrad in 1942-1943, after being captured, and in 1953 returned home:<br>". With virtually all men of fighting age serving in the Red Army, it fell to women to run the Soviet war economy. Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive against the Germans arrayed at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942. I just want to scream it all away. 'You see young girls, children hanging from trees in the park. They say that the city is on fire; on the Fiihrers orders our Luftwaffe [air force] has sent it up in flames. Only lets get it over. Contemporary observers, German as well as Soviet, agreed that the Red Army troops at Stalingrad fought with enormous fervor. . I did the same to another who pretended to be dead.'. Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich - Walter Kempowski 2015-04-13 . Those who are merely wounded are lucky; they will doubtless be at home and celebrate victory with their families. . Behind them is theVolga. December 26. Thats what the Russians need, to stop them from resisting . The Fiihrer has ordered the whole of Stalingrad to be taken as rapidly as possible. . Unfortunately, I cant write everything to you. I found this post in the history subreddit on, you guessed it, reddit. Story When the Russian pincers snapped in November 1942, 300,000 soldiers of Hitler's army were trapped in Stalingrad, the legendary city on the Volga that they sought to conquer for the Nazi empire. What great spaces the Soviets occupy, what rich fields there are to be had here after the wars over! 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. We havent eaten or slept in three Stalin's order no. The entry was written at the end of July, a month before Stalingrad. The weather's getting worse. Our regiment has lost many men from [he katyushi, which belch out terrible fire. After months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, German forces (numbering now only about 91,000 surviving soldiers) surrender at Stalingrad on the Volga. When we got to Stalingrad, there were 140 of us, but by September 1, after two weeks of battle, only 16 remained. Yesterday we got vodka. Recently, the Orthodox Church has incorporated Stalingrad into its prayers, even though the church was hardly present during the battle itself. what should be done? He is fat and bloated and has his full pack on and . We are encircled. . A big turning point for Leutnant Sander came on October 2 when many tanks were destroyed in a minefield near Wjasma, between Smolensk and Moscow. the rest were wounded and killed. 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Fighting is going on inside the elevator. 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. The economy, culture and society were fully mobilized by governments. When I think about this, Im ready to howl from annoyance and rage. In the interviews I was surprised to discover the source of this hatred. Post 28329 D, to his After weeks of desperate fighting 100,000 surviving Germans went into Russian captivity. January 15. decided to give ourselves up to capture in order to save our soldiers lives. But the historians drew confidence from history, notably the War of 1812, when the Russian people had been able to defeat a technologically superior invader. A Soviet soldier waving the Red Banner over the central plaza of Stalingrad in 1943. Answer (1 of 8): I only know this, when the army was strong enough to break out, Hitler ordered it to stay so the rest of the German army could break in to relieve it. trenches and bunkers. . Or has he been defeated at the approaches to Stalingrad? What was the role of world media before and during this battle? Archival documentation tells me that at least some Soviet historians read the interviews, but it seems that they were at a loss about how to integrate individual, subjective voices, as they called them, into a mandated objective (communist) history of the war, and so the documents were overlooked and forgotten. . Take Vassily Zaitsev, the famed sniper at Stalingrad, who killed 242 enemy soldiers over the course of the battle, until he suffered an eye injury, in January 1943. It marked the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately decide the outcome of the Second World War. It was the most ferocious battle in human history, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands. 'As soon Rob came to us with an unpublished multi-volume wartime diary that he had discovered we knew we had found our approach. morning we manage to advance 20 metres, in the evening the Russians throw us . . I went on a Stalingrad tour in 2000 and one day we were taken out to see old dugouts and foxholes. This diary covers the period from April 1942 to March 1943, the momentous year when the tide of battle turned in the East. In his memoirs, Chuikov writes that he issued a sharp rebuke to his cowardly officers. everything we did. The elevator is occupied not by men but by devils that no flames or bullets can destroy. Will I really go back to Elsa without a decoration? The Russians are fighting desperately like wild beasts, dont give themselves up, but come up close and then throw grenades. We dont have a single officer, and the non-commissioned officer had to take over the command of the division. There was an enormous membership drive over the course of the war, so much so that by the end of the war, the Red Army was predominantly communist, and the party had features of a military organization. . convinced that they cant stop us. . . . . Founded in 1999. . In pubs throughout England, the radio would be turned on for the start of the evening news only to be turned off after the report on Stalingrad had aired. November 19. . There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. We paid dearly for our victory. "It is pure hell here." Up to a the war. The Russians are defending themselves with insane stubbornness. The entries start at July 29th 1942 and end December 26th 1942. And when will Hitler take any decisive steps to free our armies from encirclement? Click here to find out more. The weather is getting worse and worse. will tell you about it. 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